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Re:Los Angeles is spending up to $837k to house a single hom... by mullingitover on Thursday February 24, 2022 @12:32PM (#30457637)
It's nothing to do with liberal policy. It was pure corruption that happened right under the noses of voters. The sales tax ballot measure to fund housing had an innocent-looking line which restricted the contractors eligible for the jobs. The contractors had to have experience building this type of housing.

The problem with this is that there were only two contractors that met the requirement, and as a result they could charge whatever they wanted since it was practically a no-bid contract.

Los Angeles could've spent dramatically less, and housed more people, had they simply purchased housing on the open market with the money. These prices are pure graft.

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Re:Los Angeles is spending up to $837k to house a single hom... by quartesixte on Thursday February 24, 2022 @12:44PM (#30457768)
God. And it was Democrats who pushed for it too IIRC.

Corruption deep on both sides of the aisle.

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Re:Los Angeles is spending up to $837k to house a single hom... by mullingitover on Thursday February 24, 2022 @01:55PM (#30458702)
To be fair, the republican party trashed its brand so thoroughly that it essentially doesn't exist in California, so we're under one party rule. There is no other side of the aisle. It's a shame because Schwarzenegger gave the party a winning formula when he was governor, but the party swung so far off the rails that his centrism makes him a bolshevik to the party as it exists now. One party rule isn't good, but we don't have any sane alternatives here.
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Re:Los Angeles is spending up to $837k to house a single hom... by dragonwriter on Thursday February 24, 2022 @04:27PM (#30460535)
> It's a shame because Schwarzenegger gave the party a winning formula when he was governor

Yes, but “find a political cypher of a celebrity, run in an irregular election leveraging a crisis created by Republican state and federal policies, and appoint an listen to a lot of establishment Dems as advisers while ignoring Republican Party insiders and donors because you don't need them once you have the dual advantages of celebrity and incumbency and don't care about the party as such” isn't really a structurally-repeatable strategy.

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Re:Los Angeles is spending up to $837k to house a single hom... by quartesixte on Saturday February 26, 2022 @01:44AM (#30475650)
Not just any celebrity—Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Man those were some crazy times.

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