For Homeless Advocates, a Discouraging Lesson in L.A.: Money Is Not Enough

Re:For Homeless Advocates, a Discouraging Lesson in L.A.: Mo... by jdavis703 on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:22PM (#15369340)

In somebody else's backyard. That's why you have concentrated areas of poverty. The government used to enforce this through "red lining" but since that has now fallen out of favor the language used to oppose these projects is now based around environmental impacts (the schools are full, the traffic is bad, it's a potentially toxic site, etc).

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Re:For Homeless Advocates, a Discouraging Lesson in L.A.: Mo... by vkou on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:32PM (#15369414)

You forgot 'it'll ruin the character of the neighbourhood.'

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Re:For Homeless Advocates, a Discouraging Lesson in L.A.: Mo... by masterleep on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:47PM (#15369537)

What if those things are all true?

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Re:For Homeless Advocates, a Discouraging Lesson in L.A.: Mo... by kqr2 on Friday September 29, 2017 @06:25PM (#15369773)

It's probably true, however, what is the correct point to "freeze" all development?

Most of silicon valley before the tech boom was orchards. Before the orchards, it was undeveloped land.

An argument could be made that development should have been frozen when it was orchards since it provided food, farming jobs, and bucolic scenery.

Environmentalists perhaps would prefer that even the orchards shouldn't have built and that the land was best kept as natural habitat.

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Re:For Homeless Advocates, a Discouraging Lesson in L.A.: Mo... by zanny on Friday September 29, 2017 @06:23PM (#15369763)

You leave tens of thousands of people to run around trashing public spaces and consuming ~100k each year in emergency healthcare and maintenance costs to repair the damage they do, and that number keeps going up as the property bubble keeps going up.

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