.@prattprattpratt is the worst kind of Californian. Because those who have #housing are often most culpable for standing in the way of solutions - even of ½ @$$ed solutions.
This bleat about #homelessness + isn't what it seems to be: elected officials are delivering the level of service and solutions that voters require of them. You can drive along a freeway or around MacArthur Park 2 see that is a low bar. His in-laws could explain this to him.
in simple, ideologically free terms that anyone who got a C in basic economics would understand, we are not building enough homes calmatters.org/housing/2022/1…
To me, Rick Caruso is just generous enough to not bulldoze the Farmer's Market at Fairfax & 3rd and generous enough to pump cold air through a fake rock into stifling August heat a few years ago in the middle of The Americana at Brand.
Forgive me if I missed the low-income #housing at Caruso's development in #Glendale.
A moderate solution would be to reform the state's constitution to make it a little easier to build housing projects. tab.bz/CAConstArt34
I saw this a while back, thought that it might be a solution for #homelessness for a moment, considered where the model came from, then thought it's better than living in the riverbed.
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.@vosdscott was talking about #homelessness about 35 minutes into the VOSD podcast from a few days ago. I've spent some time thinking through what he & @andy_keatts were talking about.
I read about/ hear most people reducing #unhoused people to abstractions and dismissing what is obvious about living #homeless: the stress of not having your own residence makes you kind of crazy. It's natural.
People with means and a few rungs up on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs are blind to where the homeless are. thoughtco.com/maslows-hierar…
I was told by an employee not wearing a mask that I could not put my reusable bags on the register conveyor belt because "it isn't safe."
I didn't pick a fight, but the #covidiocy of the situation sticks with me.
Your staff doesn't seem to understand that an unmasked human being (uncovered mouth and nose) is much more likely to infect a person than a virus on a reusable bag that may be transferred on to any part of the check stand. cdc.gov/coronavirus/20…
Further, the @vp should dissuade herself from thinking that a graduate of both Berkeley H.S. and an #HBCU could gain favor with constituents who are #bigots about #Mexico. #OpenTheBorder #Article42