Sunday, June 30, 2019
Saturday, June 29, 2019
FLASHBACK: The Los Angeles Times: Mayor Eric Garcetti pledges to end veteran homelessness in 2015
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Mayor Eric Garcetti committed Wednesday to accept the Obama administration's challenge to end veteran homelessness in Los Angeles in the next 17 months, saying he will not accept that "veterans live in our city without a place of their own."
Garcetti's pledge came during an appearance in Century City with First Lady Michelle Obama, who told 900 business and labor leaders, politicians and homeless advocates at the Unite for Veterans Summit that success in Los Angeles County is crucial to meeting the administration's homelessness goal. The county has the most homeless veterans in the country, more than 6,300.
Friday, June 28, 2019
UPDATE!
@MayorOfLA @johnandkenshow @GrahamLedger @TuckerCarlson @FOXLA @KTLA @ABC7 @NBCLA @CBSLA @drdrew @AdamCarollaShow @KNX1070 @latimes Mayor's Office trying to run out the clock, REFUSING to accept service on the amended Notice of Intent requested by the L.A. City Clerk's Office.— Alexandra Datig (@alexdatig) June 28, 2019
Thursday, June 27, 2019
UPDATE
@johnandkenshow @GrahamLedger @TuckerCarlson @FOXLA @KTLA @ABC7 @NBCLA @CBSLA @drdrew @AdamCarollaShow @KNX1070 A little birdie told me the Valley is so mad at soon-to-be Ex Mayor Garcetti, they are talking about succession from Los Angeles again. And who would blame them?— Alexandra Datig (@alexdatig) June 27, 2019
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Monday, June 24, 2019
Sunday, June 23, 2019
Official Recall Website Live
The official recall site just went live. More will be added. www.recallthelamayor.com
Saturday, June 22, 2019
UPDATE: PDF to Print and Gather Signatures to be Announced ASAP
We will post a PDF in the approved format by the Los Angeles City Clerk Elections Division ASAP. Please standby. We will announce in the coming days.
Let's fight and take our City back!
Alexandra
Governor Schwarzenegger, Please Contact Me (213) 446-2980
@Schwarzenegger Governor Schwarzenegger, please contact me. We need your help to recall Mayor Eric Garcetti for causing the state of emergency in Los Angeles due to homelessness. We have a serious crisis and we need your HELP! https://t.co/syYjEtdMrg— Alexandra Datig (@alexdatig) June 22, 2019
Friday, June 21, 2019
Calling on Controller Ron Galperin to Investigate Los Angeles City Clerk's Office Elections Division!
@LAController @TuckerCarlson @GrahamLedger @FOXLA @NBCLA @KNX1070 @johnandkenshow @drdrew @AdamCarollaShow @ABC7 @kabc @CBSLA @KTLAMorningNews Mr. Controller, I called your office to report corrupt, unethical conduct by the the Los Angeles City Clerk's Office. #recallgarcetti— Alexandra Datig (@alexdatig) June 21, 2019
Calling for FBI Investigation of Los Angeles City Clerk's Office Elections Division!
@FBILosAngeles @TuckerCarlson @GrahamLedger @FOXLA @NBCLA @KNX1070 @johnandkenshow @drdrew @AdamCarollaShow @ABC7 @kabc @CBSLA @KTLAMorningNews I am calling for an FBI Investigation into the Los Angeles City Clerk's Office! They keep LYING! They are CORRUPT! #recallgarcetti— Alexandra Datig (@alexdatig) June 21, 2019
The Los Angeles City Clerk's Office Elections Division keeps LYING!!
@FBILosAngeles The Los Angeles City Clerk's Office Elections Division keeps LYING to the effort to Recall Mayor Eric Garcetti. They keep telling us a different story to run out the clock! SHAME on the CORRUPT City Clerk's Office Elections Division! #recallgarcetti— Alexandra Datig (@alexdatig) June 21, 2019
City Watch: Could ‘Conservatorship’ Be Another Solution for LA’s Homeless Crisis?
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"...The ultra-liberal San Francisco elected officials recently authorized to remove homeless individuals and place them in a facility for their own health and safety. Known as Conservatorship, the program has the endorsement of Mayor London Breed, Supervisor Rafael Mandelman and California State Senator Scott Wiener, along with many other political and civic leaders in San Francisco. They report that it is a necessary step in dealing with the often-homeless addicts who are a danger to themselves and others. The program allows a court to appoint a public conservator for those who have been involuntarily detained for psychiatric hospitalization under section 5150 of the California welfare and institution code.
If San Francisco can implement this program, LA can and should explore it, too. It could be a way to finally begin to reduce the number of homeless individuals and families in Los Angeles. It has been determined and known for a long time that a significant number of homeless people are either mentally ill or addicted to drugs and can no longer hold a job or function in society. The utilization of the Conservatorship provisions can serve as a reasonable and humanitarian way of addressing the tragedy of homelessness..."
Read the full article here
(Dennis P. Zine is a former and retired LAPD Supervisor, former and retired 12-year Los Angeles City Councilman and current General Manager at Bell Canyon in Ventura County. Edited for CityWatch by Linda Abrams.)
Thursday, June 20, 2019
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
STATEMENT TO RECALL ERIC GARCETTI, MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES BY ALEXANDRA D. DATIG
STATEMENT TO RECALL ERIC GARCETTI,
MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES
BY ALEXANDRA D. DATIG
June 19,
2019
The homeless
state of emergency in Los Angeles has brought out City to its knees!
Los
Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is the most ineffective Mayor this city has ever
seen! Mayor Eric Garcetti, you are finished being L.A.’s slumlord and death camp
leader! The citizens of Los Angeles WILL NOT lower their standards to enable
you to destroy the city and the public health.
I am here
to ask the citizens of Los Angeles, are you better off now than you were 6
years ago?
In the
past six years there’s been a 75% increase in homelessness in Los Angeles. The
City of Los Angeles’s is failing to prevent homelessness, where for every 133
people housed, another 155 become homeless. - Eric Garcetti has FAILED to
prevent homelessness!
Because of
Garcetti’s FAILED leadership, becoming homeless in Los Angeles has become a
death sentence for many! The L.A. County Coroner reported more than 3,600 people
have died on the streets of Los Angeles in the past five years. In 2018, 918 people
died. The rate for homeless women dying on the street has more than doubled.
16,000
people are living in his or her car. Where is the transitional housing?
Eric
Garcetti has FAILED to prevent drug addiction by enabling the mentally ill and
drug addicted, forcing them into conditions where they have to live and die on
the streets of Los Angeles. These third-world conditions pose a threat to all
of the public health! Where are the resources to treat the addicted and
mentally ill?
Eric
Garcetti has FAILED by not completing one unit with the $1.2 billion bond money
allocated by voters through measure HHH. Where is this this money going and how
is it being spent?
It is time
to recall the Mayor of Los Angeles Eric Garcetti for his inaction on
homelessness in Los Angeles. Mayor Garcetti, it is time you accept your FAILURE
and step down! Your best is not good enough!
We demand
you step down before the citizens of Los Angeles remove you with this recall! We
have had enough!
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Saturday, June 15, 2019
UPDATE: News Conference
UPDATE: Wed, June 19th, 2019. News Conference on filing official paperwork to
Recall L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti.
Where: Steps of L.A. City Hall
200 N. Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA
When: 11:00am
NBC4: Group Says LA is a Death Camp for Homeless and They Want Mayor Garcetti Gone
Sign the petition here
Recall L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti.
Where: Steps of L.A. City Hall
200 N. Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA
When: 11:00am
NBC4: Group Says LA is a Death Camp for Homeless and They Want Mayor Garcetti Gone
Sign the petition here
Friday, June 14, 2019
Los Angeles Daily News: L.A.’s chief auditor urges transparency over city’s use of Prop. HHH homeless funds
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Citing the results of the 2019 homeless count, L.A. City Controller Ron Galperin on Wednesday urged leaders to more closely look at what’s happening to available public dollars targeted to combat the problem, which has been cascading across the city.
“Angelenos need to know where their money is going and deserve better results,” Galperin said in a statement reminding the public of his office’s first analysis of Proposition HHH spending in his recent Comprehensive Annual Financial Report.
Homelessness is up 16% over last year in the city and 12% countywide — and in the San Fernando Valley, the problem is also acute, jumping to 6,772 from 6,621 last year, according to results released last week for the January count. The annual count reported that nearly 59,000 people in L.A. County are now homeless, with 23% of those experiencing homelessness without shelter.
Galperin — the auditor and chief accounting officer for the city — noted L.A. has not been using all of its readily available funds to combat homelessness. Of the $86.4 million available funds provided by the voter-approved bond measure HHH, Galperin’s annual report said Los Angeles used only $4.5 million in the fiscal year 2018.
Furthermore, as of January, according to the City Controller’s office, $362 million in HHH funds were readily available and in total, $34 million has been spent.
With all of these spent funds, no new housing units have actually been built. Rather, the City Controller’s office says the funds have been used for pre-construction or construction.
“It has been two-and-a-half years since L.A. voters approved Measure HHH to spend $1.2 billion to create 10,000 supportive housing units,” Galperin said in a press release last week. “While nobody expected these units to be built overnight, at this moment not one HHH project has been completed. And the average total development cost per unit is nearly $520,000.”
More
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Thursday, June 13, 2019
U.S. News: The Homeless Are Dying in Record Numbers on the Streets of Los Angeles. More than 918 died in 2018.
A record number of homeless people — 918 last year alone — are dying across Los Angeles County, on bus benches, hillsides, railroad tracks and sidewalks.
Deaths have jumped 76% in the past five years, outpacing the growth of the homeless population, according to a Kaiser Health News analysis of the coroner's data.
Health officials and experts have not pinpointed a single cause for the sharp increase in deaths, but they say rising substance abuse may be a major reason. The surge also reflects growth in the number of people who are chronically homeless and those who don't typically use shelters, which means more people are living longer on the streets with serious physical and behavioral health issues, they say.
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
ICYMI: The Los Angeles Times: Even if California spends millions more on homelessness, here’s why few will notice
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'...Some state-funded projects and programs have been slow to show results by the standards of a frustrated public. And housing in California has become so expensive that it has been hard to feel the impact of the spending because, in many places, people are falling into homelessness as fast as people on the streets can be housed.
In Los Angeles, a recent county report found that 27,000 homeless people had been placed into permanent housing in 18 months. But a renter needs to make $47.52 per hour, which is more than triple the minimum wage, to pay the median monthly rent of $2,471, according to another report by the California Housing Partnership.
In Alameda County, where Newsom launched his task force, the most recent point-in-time count revealed a 43% jump in homelessness since 2017. EveryOne Home, the organization that conducted the count, says that every year, about 1,500 people enter permanent housing in the county, while nearly 3,000 people also become homeless for the first time.
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Monday, June 10, 2019
The Los Angeles Times: $339,000 for a restroom? L.A. politicians balk at the cost of toilets for homeless people
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| Photo Credit: Alex Datig |
It seems like an obvious fix to the squalor and stench as homelessness surges on Los Angeles streets: more restrooms.
But L.A. has estimated that staffing and operating a mobile bathroom can cost more than $300,000 annually — a price tag that has galled some politicians. During budget talks this spring, city officials estimated that providing toilets and showers for every homeless encampment in need would cost more than $57 million a year.
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The Los Angeles Times: 16,000 people in L.A. now live in cars, vans and RVs. But safe parking remains elusive
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Two years ago, Los Angeles began testing an alternative to homeless shelters called safe parking, giving people living in their cars a secure spot to sleep at night.
The first site was quickly deemed a success, so the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority agreed to fund nine more lots in the pilot program, with promises to expand.
Earlier this year, before the release of new data showing more than 16,500 people living in their vehicles, the authority put out a request to providers across the county to help them make good on that promise.
But the details of the request left some groups frustrated, saying the rules were too burdensome and the budget too tight.
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