Here are some of my ideas:<\/p>\n
* Put the mentally ill in hospitals. That will solve about 90% of homelessness.
\n* Figure out why there are so few asian or latino homeless and see if there are things that can be emulated.
\n* Provide a place for them to go that is far away from respectable citizens.
\n* The nicer Los Angeles is to the homeless, the more homeless it will get.<\/p>\n
Steve Lopez writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n But the $138 million budgeted by Garcetti this year is more goal than guarantee, with roughly half of it still something of a mirage.<\/p>\n L.A. County has a more solid $150-million budget for homelessness, and even at that, Supervisor Sheila Kuehl warned that modest sums won’t counter economic trends that are “forcing people out of their houses.”<\/p>\n Translation: The steady advance of tent cities and rolling homes is headed soon to your neighborhood, if it’s not already there.<\/p>\n It’s time for Garcetti, and Kuehl, and other city and county officials, to start campaigning for a reliable source of funding \u2014 a sales tax, a bond measure, or fees on new development.<\/p>\n Come on, somebody has to take this on. We’re going to become the next Calcutta unless some 21st-century hero steps up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here are some of my ideas: * Put the mentally ill in hospitals. That will solve about 90% of homelessness. * Figure out why there are so few asian or latino homeless and see if there are things that can … Continue reading