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Mike Bonin

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5 Aug

The LA Times looks at the Venice Beach Encampments to Homes program, which helped 211 people move indoors, and asks: ‘Can’t this happen all over the city’?

The answer is Yes.

Here’s a rundown of what we did, what we learned, and what we need. (thread)
latimes.com/opinion/story/…

@StJosephCtr

The E2H program, a collaboration of agencies and run by @StJosephCtr, was designed as new approach to help our unhoused neighbors quickly and compassionately. It helped bust a pervasive and negative stereotype about homelessness and how to solve it

@latimes

As the @latimes puts it, our work with Venice Beach Encampments to Homes disproves “the trope that homeless people living on the street are “service resistant.” Even people who professed their love of the view of the ocean from their tents left for brick and mortar housing.”

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Mike Bonin

@mikebonin

8 Jun

The sheriff says he's coming to Venice.

He didn’t call to offer services or housing, which would help. He went on a PR blitz, promising his own notorious brand of justice.

To anyone familiar with Villanueva and LASD, that's incredibly ominous.

(thread) (1/15)

Any involvement from Villanueva is troubling, especially for people concerned with civil rights.

Here's some of what the Civilian Oversight Commission said about him and LASD:

*threatened progress on reforms designed to enhance accountability for deputy misconduct.

(2/15)

*removed the department’s constitutional policing advisors

*attempted to rehire deputies who were fired for cause, such as fabricating evidence and domestic violence.

(3/15)

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Mike Bonin

@mikebonin

3 Jun

There is loud and growing criticism of homeless housing from people saying homelessness is about addiction and mental health, not housing. We absolutely need more mental health & drug rehab services -- and we can't address these issues among the unhoused without housing. (1/13)

Homelessness is caused by myriad factors, both systemic and personal. Whether the cause is eviction, job loss, domestic violence, a health issue, or an addiction, a necessary part of the solution is housing. (2/13)

We need significantly more resources to handle our mental health crisis and our drug crisis, especially meth, heroin and fentanyl. People are spiraling into personal Hell in front of our eyes, and mental health, rehab and recovery resources are way too scarce. (3/13)

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Mike Bonin

@mikebonin

12 Feb

With the Biden admin offering 100% reimbursement for local efforts to use hotels/motels to house our unhoused neighbors during the pandemic, LA needs to move aggressively to expand Project Roomkey to bring thousands of people indoors to safety.

@MRTempower

Today, the Homelessness & Poverty Committee, chaired by @MRTempower, unanimously approved a motion from me and @nithyavraman calling for the city to use the promise of federal reimbursement to quickly and dramatically ramp up the use of hotels and motels for emergency housing.

@mungertolles

The motion also directed the City Atty to report on whether the city can, if needed, commandeer and compensate motels/motels to get them to participate. (And City Atty issued a memo indicating the city can do so, echoing similar opinions from @mungertolles and @SFCityAttorney.)

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Mike Bonin

@mikebonin

10 Dec 20

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.

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Mike Bonin

@mikebonin

4 Dec 20

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.

In the middle of a severe budget crisis, the police union (LAPPL) aggressively lobbied for a budget proposal that would have sizably increased the LAPD budget while CUTTING neighborhood patrols by 220,000 hours a year.

To pay for their raises, LAPPL was willing to throw everyone under the bus - including their civilian coworkers. They were ok with moving sworn officers off patrol and onto desk duty. They were OK with cutting gang intervention programs.

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