Will Los Angeles Fix Homelessness After Settlement | Paul Webster 

I don't think they "voted" for Newsome. The circumstances at the end of that recall election were questionable.

California voters wont even vote a conservative or moderate democrat into office. They surely were never going to consider republican Elder. Elder had a better shot in Alabama or Mississippi.

I don’t know one person that voted for Newsome…

It’s rigged

wtf...

total number of females?

Prob majority

Well only 24% of the entire State are Republicans. So, you will never win in the State or Los Angeles, GOP only 23% of LA County. 🤣

This is kind of a misnomer. Los Angeles has probably more public mental health services for homeless and drug addicts than any other place in America. They have a ton of charities/non profits and clinics funded by taxpayers. What he said is that _the_ _city_ of Los Angeles has no mental health services... that's because mental health services are the responsibility of _the_ _county_ of Los Angeles, and by extension the State of California and the federal HHSA. Frankly, the city should _not_ offer mental health services, because this is inefficient and wasteful doubling up. Public mental health treatment clearly falls under the mandate of the county and the state. The City doesn't have funding, or any departments to administer mental health treatment. So they'll have to start from scratch, they're re-inventing the wheel when the county already has a functioning system that does the same thing. This kind of redundant doubling up is actually a major problem with fixing homelessness. You have a dozen different agencies and municipalities all spending and trying stuff out. They all partially overlap and they all slightly differ. You have one agency moving north and the other is moving south, instead of moving in one direction together. They all have byzantine bureaucracies that grind progress to a halt and convoluted funding structures and complex laws on how they need to be administered and managed by the state and by providers. They aren't coordinated at all. It's a tangled mess (in San Diego, even the transit authority in charge of the Trolley/Bus system is building low income housing now, if that tells you how crazy and desperate this has gotten). Let's say you pull off a miracle revolutionize one of these agencies re: homelessness, and they really get their act together. You still have a dozen other cats to herd. This redundancy and doubling up results in just enormous waste and inefficiency, I can't even tell you. I worked as a drug counselor at publicly funded programs in Southern CA for many years. They need to overhaul all the agencies trying to deal with homelessness. You have to have someone with vision at the top and strong leadership to coordinate the whole thing.

This was part of a court settlement and if they don't meet the requirements, these people can hold the city accountable legally.

Marilyn, there were many factors that closed down our publicly funded mental institutions during the Reagan era. Lawsuits were not one of them. I've worked in this field for years, I've had exposure to some of these types of providers. Take it from me, they basically mistreat patients with total impunity. I've seen amazingly incompetent and dangerous mental health facilities before in LA and San Diego. They are not concerned with lawsuits. They're not even concerned with complaints to the professional board and bad reviews on google. What shut down the mental health hospitals was a combination to of two big factors. Reagan era "small government" and "government is the problem" mentality. This put pressure on the hospitals, and cut their funding. Reaganites argues that private hospitals and the free market would deal with the problem much better. This turned out not to be true, as we have seen. I know this is taboo to say, for Reaganites, but there are just certain issues in our society which markets are _not_ good at fixing. You need government to be involved and actively managing the situation. The second factor might be more surprising: There was a movement in the profession of mental health treatment to get people out of these hospitals. There was a very famous study performed by a guy named Rosenhan that seemed to show these hospitals were wrongfully keeping patients locked up. Rosenhan's study was a big deal. It seemed to show these hospitals were baloney. It turns out, we know today that Rosenhan is a fraud, and the landmark study is actually fraudulent, but that wasn't known at the time. Mental health clinicians started to wonder if 50-70% of these people in hospitals could actually be living much more dignified and fulfilling lives out in the community, with some help, and new medications which were hitting the market. So psychiatrists and psychologists actually were open to closing these hospitals down. They didn't resist. I agree, we need these institutions to be open again. There basically is no residential treatment anymore, longer than 90 days. Private insurance killed long-term inpatient around 2015, because the insurance companies decided it was too expensive. But some people need six months, twelves months, maybe even years, before they can integrate back into society. Some people are so severe they will need hospitalization or major support their whole lives. But the way things are today, they have nowhere to go.

drug dealers should go under the jail... forever...

U and ur family need to move why stay in CA there are jobs elsewhere

Exactly

Would you hire someone who is mentally ill?

Glad SOMEONE pointed that out. And thank you for your position. The people in this state are lost within the "NANNY" mindset of those who have been made subjugated and subservient to a JUGGERNAUT that of which has NO care, or want for beneficial action TOWARDS or FOR its populace. But they'll continue, dutifully, "Bending The Knee" regardless of this FACT. Just like the good little pups they've shown themselves to be

Unfortunately nobody knows him so he has no chance. Larry Elder has been talking on this issue a long time ago and understands the situation (among other things in CA) but the people voted to keep Newscum in the recall. Anyone that is not of the establishment will get slandered by the corporate propaganda media.