Monday, April 06, 2026

Road of good intentions & social engineering leads 2 failure

Los Angeles has spent more than $300 million on Inside Safe since Bass launched the program in December 2022, clearing scores of homeless encampments and moving about 5,800 people into interim housing " mostly hotels and motels. The goal was to get each of those people into permanent housing, typically taxpayer-funded apartments. But even as the mayor's initiative brings more people indoors, a growing number are winding up back on the street. The longer the program exists, the greater the share of participants who have returned to "unsheltered" homelessness, according to monthly dashboards which were posted by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, or LAHSA, and analyzed by The Times.

Posted by oneironaut at 11:27 AM | 6 COMMENTS | permalink

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This is a great example of a Snoofy type of oversimplification of social engineering. Just get them short term housing ... Well the housing has to have rules, and the rules make people leave. Without looking at the data or the cases of why its not working, LA says they just need more money to make it work. Homelessness is a complex problem, the answer is never one size fits all solution.

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---- off Imbecile. You're a waste of air

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-04-06 12:26 PM

In Fort Worth, they have programs that not only "give a man a fish" by feeding them, they "teach a man how to fish" by giving good solid job training, resume writing, haircuts, good clothes, and once an income is brought in, to help fight the barrier of needing a deposit and extra month's rent up front to get an apartment, they will pay the deposit and any other upfront costs PLUS the first month's rent to help the person, or family, fully get on their feet.

And that's one of the reasons why the homeless in Sacramento (I do street ministry around the country...not "witness" but "ministering to the needs" to the homeless) were telling me many of them are trying to get $$ for a bus ride to places like Fort Worth around the country.

#2 | Posted by Idependant97 at 2026-04-06 12:53 PM

Things like California's approach to the homeless is like Helen Keler's family's approach to dealing with her.
Cities like Fort Worth's approach is more like Ms. Sullivan.

#3 | Posted by Idependant97 at 2026-04-06 12:57 PM

Oh, I see I was noted in the summary.

This is nothing like how I would help the homeless.

I support direct government action.

American governments pay middlemen.

American governments provide corporate welfare, some of which trickles down to those ostensibly intended to benefit.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-04-07 03:20 PM

I see I was noted in the summary.

OneTrumper is obsessed with you.

You really skull ------ him.

Now you're living rent free in that putrid head of his.

#5 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-04-07 03:29 PM

Unrestrained Capitalism and "the markets" are how those folks wound up on the streets, plus, perhaps, a degree of mental illness on their part that they shouldn't be penalized for, but assisted to overcome.

#6 | Posted by morris at 2026-04-07 06:53 PM

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