Cervantes says this price tag includes common areas to help the homeless make the transition to permanent housing. Wrap-around services will help to address their needs, such as addiction or mental illness, and give them an opportunity to adjust to the change.
Despite attempts to justify the high prices, costs are higher than the median sales price of a home in Los Angeles County, which was reported as $618,000 by the tracker CoreLogic, in June 2019.
Alex Comisar, Mayor Garcetti’s spokesman, said he is doing everything he can to solve the crisis, leveraging every dollar to confront it and working with diverse partner to try and find innovative solutions for quick scaling. The city is currently building shorter-term dormitory-style shelters with shared bathrooms and kitchens.
The program is not sustainable!
It doesn’t take much to realize that it would be possible to house more people if less money was being spent on pricey apartments. The cost is unacceptable and a fundamental course correction is necessary. Pricey apartments are not the answer when it comes to providing housing for the homeless. The fact that this is happening at all shows the incompetence of the city and that government programs are the wrong way to go about dealing with homelessness.
