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Mike Bonin

10 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read

The City Council unanimously approved more than 700 new units of housing to help get people off the street today, including 77 rooms on the Westside, though Project Homekey: bit.ly/37OGT4V

This program is a smart and fast way to help unhoused neighbors move indoors. The 44-room Super 8 on Airport Blvd in Westchester and the 33-room Ramada Inn on Washington Blvd in Marina del Rey to help rapidly move people off nearby streets.

We can’t wait years for the construction of new units. We need to get people off the streets immediately -- and purchasing motels and hotels is one of the fastest and most efficient ways we can do that.

Both the City and County are making purchases through Project Homekey. I am eager to find more buildings to purchase so we can stop being a City with people living and dying in encampments on our streets.

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With crime on the rise, let’s remember who is responsible for cuts in neighborhood patrols -- our police union. They lobbied hard for a budget that cut patrols in order to pay for their raises. And now they are gaslighting us about it.

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Through public ownership or community land trusts, social housing can create communities that are affordable to teachers and nurses, grocery workers and restaurant employees, seniors and students.

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LA is waking up to a better, smarter approach, one that asks not “how many more cops do we need?” but “what is the best way to provide public safety, public health and emergency response?”

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10 Sep 19

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This is chilling. @realDonaldTrump wants to "crackdown" on homelessness and put people into "government facilities." We've buried refugee children held hostage in his damn facilities. What inhumane treatment will he sanction for the unhoused? wapo.st/2m7Y7pH

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And @realDonaldTrump 's freaking administration is actually CAUSING homelessness, throwing immigrant families out of housing, cutting health care, contributing to worsening income inequality.

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Over the weekend, an angry woman actually asked me why we weren't putting unhoused people into internment camps. "We did it for 120,000 Japanese. Why can't we do it now?" Sounds like @realDonaldTrump wants to grant her disgusting wish.

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