Can any of the California budget surplus be used to reverse the homelessness problem in the LA area? Buddy of mine who lives out there says it's worse than it's ever been. He just feels fortunate to live near RV cities rather than the tent cities.
I wish. It's really bad. Absolutely horrible. The RV cities are a little better than the tent cities but the trash build up from them is problematic for those communities. Some areas are able to avoid them which probably forces them to other areas. I know they've tried different things and obviously those haven't been the answer.
Its also almost unliveable or untenable for high earners to live there. Real estate is skyrocketing and now essnetially almost entirely a renters market unless you have access to a lot of capital. Middle class's best way to gain generational wealth was access to buying and paying for your home and owning it. Now, if anyone is paying attention has been even more heightened with black rock buying up single family homes all aroudn the country. That is gone. Then theres newsoms policy, similar that absolutely makes it so hard for small businesses to run, even out of a pandemic. Both those places sustain on being desired destinations with cornerstones that will continue to draw people there, and they've taken advnatage of that mindless demand despite terrible or hindering policies. REgulations are important and needed, but thats smart regulation, the arbitrary and petty things that california and nyc imposes just hinders any new businesses or small business and helps those who have manpower and legal power to navigate it easily. Its a damn shame, but that poor mom and pop ain't taking you to french laundry ya know.
Its not surprising, the media is full of people trying to do algebra with simple addition subtraction and not wondering where it went wrong. One way or another you'll have mindless partisans cheering you on, owning the libs or owning the trumpers and hence the WWE style culture of government of stupid that insults any true american and our constitution
This is all true. Housing will suffer until all the boomers sell off in the next 10-20 years. Ideally, regs against homebuilding and other growth oppression will get better, but not sure how serious politicians are with it as the rich and elderly are aligned against cheaper housing. We are still not at the worst of the homelessness crisis. Bay Area might be but socal still has room to go with prices.
California has the largest economy in the nation. California's economy is doing quite well. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-05-10/ceos-california-business?_amp=true https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/amp/States-like-California-with-strict-COVID-rules-16239761.php California is doing better than Texas and Florida.
