Nithya Raman, the Democratic Socialist (communist) running for mayor of Los Angeles, is also a member of the LA City Council, who chairs their special council on homelessness.
Last year, the city enacted a plan that was championed by Raman, which was intended to get homeless people off the streets and into apartments.
Despite carrying out the plan, which cost $60 million, only three units have been housed as a result.
Los Angeles residents can look forward to more of this kind of success in the future, no matter who wins the current race for mayor, Raman or incumbent Karen Bass.
The New York Post reports:
LA blew $60M on homeless ‘fix’ — it housed just three units
Just three out of a promised 2,000 apartments have been used to relocate the homeless in Nithya Raman’s failed $60 million project to get people off the streets.
Councilmember Raman, the chair of the Los Angeles City Council’s Housing and Homelessness Committee, introduced the Time Limited Subsidy program back in September as a cheaper alternative to Mayor Karen Bass’ Inside Safe Program — meant to get homeless people into an established residence.
Raman’s plan was to lease and move homeless people into 2,000 apartments and subsidize their rent, rather than pay for them to stay in motels or shelters.
However, nearly a year after that plan was launched — with $62.6 million in taxpayer funds behind it — only three apartments are occupied.
The City Council first approved investing in the subsidy model last September as part of its strategy for complying with a court settlement with the Los Angeles Alliance for Human Rights.
Four months later, on January 28, the council approved resources for a redesigned program targeting 2,000 households…
However, only three units had occupants by June 25, according to a July 1 presentation to Raman’s powerful homeless committee — a damning result for a program Raman has campaigned to take citywide if elected Mayor.
There are probably quite a few reasons why this plan failed, but the main one is something that Spencer Pratt understands and spoke about on the campaign trail.
The vast majority of homeless people living on the streets of Los Angeles are not there because they are simply down on their luck. They are drug addicts, or mentally ill, or both.
Pratt might have actually fixed this problem because he understood it. Democrats and the bureaucrats who control the city simply don’t want the problem solved.
There are too many people in LA who make an excellent living ‘fixing’ the homeless problem.
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