{"id":1525,"date":"2016-02-11T15:55:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T15:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolsociology.net\/SOAN324WP\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2018-07-31T21:23:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T21:23:47","slug":"l-a-city-county-ok-homeless-plans-but-where-will-the-money-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/?p=1525","title":{"rendered":"L.A. city, county OK homeless plans, but where will the money come from?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles city and county governments have each approved a major plan to combat homelessness. \u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-city-county-homeless-plans-20160208-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">See the report in the Los Angeles Times, Feb 10, 2016<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The county plan calls for setting aside $150 million dollars over the next two years to carry out the strategies that its task force outlined in January. \u00a0This includes $26 million for quick turn-around rehousing, $11 million for short-term housing for people coming out of county jails and other institutions, and $8.7 million for subsidies to help disabled homeless people get into housing while waiting for federal Supplemental Security Income. \u00a0It makes some efforts to increase the county&#8217;s stock of low-cost housing, but building the 15,000 needed additional units would cost far more than the county is promising in this plan. \u00a0And the county has yet to figure out where the $150 million will come from.<\/p>\n<p>The city plans to develop &#8220;a host of housing programs, create a citywide system of mobile showers and public restrooms, and allow overnight parking at designated sites for people who live in their vehicles.&#8221; \u00a0These would be spread throughout the city rather than concentrated on L.A.&#8217;s &#8216;Skid Row&#8217;. \u00a0Unfortunately, the housing programs alone will cost more than $185 billion over the next decade. \u00a0Again, the City Council does not yet know where the money will come from.<\/p>\n<p>Both plans were developed to deal with the root causes of homelessness. \u00a0They are a response to the recent jump in the number of homeless people counted in all parts of Los Angeles County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles city and county governments have each approved a major plan to combat homelessness. \u00a0(See the report in the Los Angeles Times, Feb 10, 2016.) The county plan calls for setting aside $150 million dollars over the next two years to carry out the strategies that its task force outlined in January. \u00a0This &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/?p=1525\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">L.A. city, county OK homeless plans, but where will the money come from?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,42,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homelessness","category-housing-porgrams","category-solutions-homeless"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47OlK-oB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions\/1526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}