Re: I'm Suspended from NextDoor Again

On Mar 8, 2025 at 4:49:18 PM PST, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
 

 This time it was 30 days on the bench for 'cultural shaming'. I responded
in a
 thread about L.A.'s vagrants to someone who posted the city's official
stats.
 I said this:
 
      And how much of that alleged decrease is because
      of deceptive numbers games by embarrassed
      government officials?
 
      For example, Karen Bass’s "Inside Safe" program
      provides hotel rooms (at taxpayer expense, naturally)
      for vagrants. Every vagrant who takes a hotel room is
      counted in the official stats as 'housed' (no longer
      homeless). Even if the vagrant only stays there for
      24 hours and then goes back to the streets,

 
Serious question. Can they just stay in the hotel room for free forever?

Until the city runs out of money, apparently.

And they're pulling money from the budgets of all the other city departments--
like the fire department-- to pay to house the vagrants and the illegals.

So your house might burn down in, say, a wildfire because the city doesn't
have the manpower or the equipment to fight the fire (which has a 50% chance
of being started by a vagrant) because it's too busy prioritizing vagrants and
illegals over you, the mere taxpayer.

If they decide they’d rather live on the street than in a free hotel room
forever can’t we just commit them?

Last summer the Supreme Court cleared the way for cities to tell vagrants they
can't camp on public property or block rights-of-way, but the Los Angeles
government refuses to use that power.