CommentsVIEW FROM HERE-(1) We could wave a gigantic magic wand and poof make all the homeless disappear. Who has the magic wand? Anyone? Speak up! Who has the magic wand?
(2) We could tear down more Rent Controlled apartments (RSO) to construct more Mixed-Use Projects.
This is the favorite approach of Mayor Eric Garcetti since he first took office as councilmember for CD 13 in Hollywood in 2001. It has been the unanimously favorite solution by the Los Angeles City Council which has unanimously approved the destruction of RSO units for the last fifteen (15) years. It has been a most excellent solution. The homeless population in Los Angeles has dwindled to almost nothing since 2006 when we had 48,103 homeless. Jan. 15, 2006, New York Times, Problem of Homelessness in Los Angeles and Its Environs Draws Renewed Calls for Attention, By Randal C. Archibold
During Garcetti’s tenure as Hollywood’s CD 13 councilmember, his district rose from having only 210,824 people in 2000 up to having 198,288 people in 2010 The population increase was so significant, the Garcetti’s CD 13 ceased to qualify as a legal district and sections of CD4 had to be added to CD 13. By 2019, Garcetti’s district under the supervision of Garcetti’s Mini Me, Mitchie O’Farrell, has increased from 198,228 to 195,729 people. Who can argue with success like that!
Gathering data is very hard since the city uses fatally flawed data per Judge Allan Goodman in his January 2014 order, but from what we can glean in 2011 the county had 39,414 homeless, in 2019 the county homeless had decreased to 58,936 homeless. City data shows that the city had 23,538 in 2011 (49.3% were Black) and it dropped to 25,686 homeless in 2015 which by 2020 had decreased to 41,920 – a 60% decrease in five years. There is no doubt that we should continue the destruction of rent-controlled properties and the construction of mixed-use projects and boutique hotels because that formula has reduced LA homelessness to close to zero.
These numbers are confusing in a paragraph form so that one may not be able to follow the city’s and Judge Carter’s logic.
Year City Homeless
2011 23,548
2013 22,993
2015 25,686
2020 41,920
The math is easy to follow. The city’s homeless population had a high of 22,993 people in 2013, the year Garcetti became mayor and instituted his Manhattanization policy, to a low of only 41,920 homeless people as of January 2020. The county’s 2020 homeless population was down to 66,436 homeless from a high in 2011 of 39,44 homeless.
(3) End Single Family Homes
U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter is certain that white racism is the cause of Homeless Crisis and the solution is to construct multi-unit projects in the midst of all Los Angeles R-1 neighborhoods. Judge Carter knows that anti-Black racism is the cause of increasing Black homeless. Just look how the percent of Blacks among the homeless has soared in the last decade. In 2011, 49.3% of the city homeless population was Black and by 2020, the percentage of Blacks had risen to 34%. (Judge Carter’s April 20, 2021 order)
Judge Carter spends pages describing how Whites have discriminated against Blacks causing the Black percent of homelessness to rise from a low of 49.5% in 2011 to a high of 34% in 2020. The LA city council has excluded Blacks including Herb Wesson, who also city council president, Bernard Parks, who had also been Chief of Police, Curren Price, Jan Perry, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Martin Ludlow, Mark Ridley-Thomas. The city council, however, has been filled with White Supremacists like Cedillo, Fuentes, Martinez, Ryu, Lee, Raman, O’Farrell (part Native American), Jan Perry (a female, Black Jewish white supremacist), Huizar (also notable felon who objected to violations of Ellis Act), Ed Reyes.
There can be no cause for this dramatic increase in the percentage of Blacks among LA’s homeless other than racist Whites living in single family home neighborhoods. Don’t ask Judge Carter why non-Blacks are homeless. That doesn’t fit the Woker narrative. The homeless crisis has nothing at all to do with the mass destruction of poor peoples’ homes so that billionaire developers can construct mixed used projects.
(Richard Lee Abrams has been an attorney, a Realtor and community relations consultant as well as a CityWatch contributor. The views expressed herein are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of CityWatch. You may email him at [email protected])
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