Showing posts with label Eric Garcetti. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eric Garcetti. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Friday, November 1, 2019
Saturday, October 26, 2019
FPI: 500,000 Homeless in America is Proof Local Leaders Are Tone Deaf on Emergency Management
Alex talks about how partisan politics get in the way of solving real problems and how Democrats are damaging their own cities because of it. Los Angeles is the main case in point. An evolving pattern of failed management at the top is to blame for the homeless crisis and drug epidemic. A scam for homeless housing with tax payer dollars exposes Proposition HHH as a bait and switch on the people, unlike any in the history of the City of Los Angeles. A contrast between former Mayor Richard Riordan and the City of Los Angeles, shows glaring failures in emergency management with the current mayoral administration.
Referenced source material: Richard Riordan: The Mayor: How I Turned Around Los Angeles after Riots, an Earthquake and the O.J. Simpson Murder Trial
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Saturday, September 21, 2019
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Mayor Garcetti's Letter to President Trump an Indictment of Incompetence!
The Mayor’s Office also hand-delivered the following letter to Trump’s team asking for increased federal assistance to combat homelessness in American cities
September 10, 2019
President Donald J. Trump
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear President Trump,
I appreciate your staff’s visit to Los Angeles this week to learn about our city’s work on homelessness. Any day that our nation’s federal leaders are willing to listen to Americans living in our 19,000 local communities across this country about the challenges that they face is a good day.
To cut to the chase, if you are committed to working with America’s cities and local leaders to address the national epidemic of homelessness there’s a lot you and your Administration can do. While homelessness has increased in cities across the United States in recent years, it’s a problem that predates your administration and mine.
This is a crisis decades in the making. Homeless Americans share one thing in common--trauma. Whether it is a veteran on our streets suffering from PTSD, a woman who has survived domestic violence, or a family whose breadwinner suffers a workplace injury and can’t make the rent, Americans need your help.
Our country faces an ever-higher cost of living, a national economy that has hollowed out our middle-class and federal government cuts to vital housing funds and social services. We hope the federal government can be part of the solution.
In Los Angeles, we are taking bold steps forward. Our voters approved the two largest anti-homeless ballot measures in our nation’s history. Together, they expand outreach services, mental health care, shelter beds, and permanent affordable housing with services by more than $4.5 billion over a decade. This money, together with private, state, and faith-based sources of funding we have increased the number of people we are housing from about 9,000 in 2014 to more than 21,000 last year.
President Donald J. Trump
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear President Trump,
I appreciate your staff’s visit to Los Angeles this week to learn about our city’s work on homelessness. Any day that our nation’s federal leaders are willing to listen to Americans living in our 19,000 local communities across this country about the challenges that they face is a good day.
To cut to the chase, if you are committed to working with America’s cities and local leaders to address the national epidemic of homelessness there’s a lot you and your Administration can do. While homelessness has increased in cities across the United States in recent years, it’s a problem that predates your administration and mine.
This is a crisis decades in the making. Homeless Americans share one thing in common--trauma. Whether it is a veteran on our streets suffering from PTSD, a woman who has survived domestic violence, or a family whose breadwinner suffers a workplace injury and can’t make the rent, Americans need your help.
Our country faces an ever-higher cost of living, a national economy that has hollowed out our middle-class and federal government cuts to vital housing funds and social services. We hope the federal government can be part of the solution.
In Los Angeles, we are taking bold steps forward. Our voters approved the two largest anti-homeless ballot measures in our nation’s history. Together, they expand outreach services, mental health care, shelter beds, and permanent affordable housing with services by more than $4.5 billion over a decade. This money, together with private, state, and faith-based sources of funding we have increased the number of people we are housing from about 9,000 in 2014 to more than 21,000 last year.
At the most recent conference on homelessness in Washington DC, Los Angeles was seen as a national model for our comprehensive approach to homelessness. We are also addressing the conditions on our streets, with tens of millions of dollars for clean-ups, including hiring Americans experiencing homelessness as sanitation workers cleaning up our hardest-hit neighborhoods. But it is clear that no local government, including ours, can address homelessness on our own.
For many years, the federal government has woefully underfunded our housing safety net, contributing to homelessness. The federal government cut HUD funding for the production of new housing and preservation by 31% for the 2016-2018 time period, and according to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, only one in four low-income families who qualify for housing assistance actually receive it. This pressure is acutely felt here in Los Angeles, where 36,000 people experience homelessness on any given night.
Unfortunately, far too many veterans are homeless in Los Angeles and across America, abandoned by our federal government after they defend our nation in the Armed Forces. Veterans comprise 13% of our country’s homeless population, compared with 7% of our country’s total population. While Los Angeles has seen a 41% reduction in veteran’s homelessness, the most recent count showed 3,886 Angeleno veterans were homeless. Federal programs to house veterans' are successful, yet underfunded.
If you and your Administration would like to help Los Angeles and other American cities confront our homelessness crisis, I urge you to take the following actions immediately and work with America’s communities to bring all Americans home:
For many years, the federal government has woefully underfunded our housing safety net, contributing to homelessness. The federal government cut HUD funding for the production of new housing and preservation by 31% for the 2016-2018 time period, and according to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, only one in four low-income families who qualify for housing assistance actually receive it. This pressure is acutely felt here in Los Angeles, where 36,000 people experience homelessness on any given night.
Unfortunately, far too many veterans are homeless in Los Angeles and across America, abandoned by our federal government after they defend our nation in the Armed Forces. Veterans comprise 13% of our country’s homeless population, compared with 7% of our country’s total population. While Los Angeles has seen a 41% reduction in veteran’s homelessness, the most recent count showed 3,886 Angeleno veterans were homeless. Federal programs to house veterans' are successful, yet underfunded.
If you and your Administration would like to help Los Angeles and other American cities confront our homelessness crisis, I urge you to take the following actions immediately and work with America’s communities to bring all Americans home:
- Support the bipartisan Fighting Homelessness Through Services & Housing Act, S. 923 and the End Homelessness Act, H.R. 1856 which further expand the housing safety net with new grants and mental health programs to help cities combat homelessness over the next five years;
- Uphold the Veteran Administration’s vision to build at least 1,200 units of housing for homeless veterans on the West LA VA Campus by providing capital funding for new housing development and addressing the severe infrastructure needs of this federal land;
- In your FY2021 Budget Request, build up the nation’s housing safety net and support higher appropriations for the programs that have been proven to solve homelessness and create economic opportunities for hard-working Americans. Some of those critical programs are: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD’s) Homeless Assistance Grants, HUD’s block grant programs (HOME, CDBG, HOPWA, and ESG), HUD’s project-based and tenant-based rental assistance programs (including HUD-VASH), capital and operating funds for the nation’s dwindling supply of public housing, the Affordable Housing Trust Fund, and the VA’s Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) program;
- Rescind HUD’s proposed rules to evict mixed-status immigrant families from assisted housing and prevent transgender homeless people from accessing federally funded shelters; and
- Protect critical fair housing laws by upholding the previous administration’s “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” and “Disparate Impact” rules.
We must put politics aside when it comes to responding to this heartbreaking humanitarian crisis. I hope you will provide the federal assistance that is needed to help cities stop homelessness in America and help our veterans and most vulnerable of citizens. This is our watch. This is our time. This must be done. I look forward to working with you and your Administration on this issue.
Sincerely,
Eric Garcetti
Mayor
City of Los Angeles
Sincerely,
Eric Garcetti
Mayor
City of Los Angeles
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Garcetti keeps lying and while the homeless keep dying
For the past six years, homelessness in Los Angeles has increased by more than 75%. This has caused an alarming, rapid decline in the quality of life in our city, because the Mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, has failed to address hands-on mobilization, assisting people experiencing homelessness. He has failed to provide shelter space, adequate medical care and sanitation for many of the City’s 36,165 homeless people. He lied using exaggerated numbers by stating he housed 21,000 people last year, when in fact the Los Angeles City Controller’s audit of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) showed these were exaggerated County and not City numbers. The Controller’s audit also showed, gross mismanagement of software administration, generating duplicate entries for people falling in and out of homelessness in the same year, and the inclusion of numbers from third-party agencies not affiliated with LAHSA, as well as the Veterans Administration’s numbers.
These grand scale failures have caused a serious state of emergency in the City of Los Angeles, a threat to public health and the environment. Conditions created by homelessness in Los Angeles have impacted the local economy causing businesses to flee and relocate. With violent crime on the rise in densely populated homeless encampments like skid row, there is an increasing risk to the public safety.
In November 2016, both the County and City of Los Angeles voters approved, Proposition H, adding a ¼ cent sales tax for wrap-around services, funding $355 million for services for the homeless. City voters also approved Proposition HHH, funding $1,200,000,000 in bond funds to build 10,000 supportive housing units over a 10-year period, and provide wrap-around services.
Concurrently, Mayor Garcetti was running for re-election for his second term in of March 2017.
The Proposition HHH ballot text stated the City of Los Angeles had 26,000 people experiencing homelessness in 2016. The June 2019, “Point in Time Homeless Count” showed the City of Los Angeles had more than 36,000 people experiencing homelessness, a more than 10,000 person increase as of November 2016.
To date, not one property using HHH subsidy funds is complete, and according to the latest reports, $100 million is remaining in HHH bond funds. The average cost per unit using HHH subsidy funds is $520,000, with the cost per unit as much as $700,000 per unit. The latest reports state less than 7,000 units would be built, because funds are dispersed too slowly, driving up construction costs. This alone is a looting of tax payer dollars! In the meantime, for every 130 being housed, another 155 become homeless.
The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office reported a 76% increase in homeless deaths between the year 2014 and 2018, where 3,612 people experiencing homelessness have died on the streets of Los Angeles.
UPDATE: The Los Angeles Times reported today 666 homeless people have died at the end of August 2019.
The Mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti claims he is making progress on homelessness. The facts state this is not the case. For these reasons and many more, it is time to recall the Mayor of Los Angeles Eric Garcetti. Please visit www.RecallTheLAMayor.com for more information and please donate to the recall effort.
Committee to Recall Mayor Eric Garcetti, ID 1419545
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Thursday, August 15, 2019
Monday, August 12, 2019
FPI: Los Angeles is a National Disgrace because its Citizens are Not a Priority
Alex talks about historical factors of the homeless problem in Los Angeles and how a new brand of hard left politics disrupted efforts in 2005, contributing to the present catastrophe. Currently, California Congresswoman Karen Bass, Los Angeles Police Chief Michael Moore, County of Los Angeles Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, Rescue Mission CEO Reverend Andy Bales, who is the leading faith-based advocate on homelessness in Los Angeles and the nation’s leading expert on mental health and addiction Dr. Drew Pinsky, have all called the situation ‘a state of emergency.’ With the 75% increase in homelessness in the past six years under his watch, Mayor of Los Angeles Eric Garcetti still refuses to declare a state of emergency.
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Friday, July 26, 2019
Sunday, July 7, 2019
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
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
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