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The Democratic mayor of Los Angeles is proposing a plan to have the city’s wealthiest residents step up and pay for housing tens of thousands of homeless people who have inundated the city over the past decade, thanks to far-left policies that critics say facilitated the crisis.

Mayor Karen Bass pleaded with “the most fortunate” residents of L.A. as a way to tackle the city’s mounting homeless problem, Fox News reported.

Bass touted the alleged achievements of her flagship program, Inside Safe, which facilitated the transition of over 21,000 homeless individuals into temporary shelters, as reported by The Associated Press. She maintained that this “strategy” and “system” of relocating the homeless to temporary housing would ultimately alleviate the homelessness crisis in Los Angeles.

After noting how expensive the taxpayer-supported program was, Bass implored the city’s wealthy to “speed up” buying new homes for homeless residents.

“Right now, we’re working to move past nightly rentals,” she continued. “We are asking the most fortunate Angelenos to participate in this effort, with personal, private sector, and philanthropic funds – to help us acquire more properties, lower the cost of capital, and speed up housing.”

“This is the mission of our new capital campaign, LA4LA.”

Bass emphasized that the homelessness crisis has impacted every individual in the city, leading to the departure of businesses and customers, consuming city resources funded by taxpayers, and posing safety concerns.

She did not, however, propose new policies that would disincentivize other homeless people from relocating to L.A.’s streets and business districts.

“I will just not accept this, and our city can’t afford to accept it,” she complained.

The new program will depend on the “humanity and generosity of the private sector,” the Democrat mayor said. “LA4LA can be a sea change for Los Angles, an unprecedented partnership to confront this emergency, an example of disrupting the status quo to build a new system to save lives.”

Fox News added:

Billions of dollars have been spent on homelessness in the region, and an array of new programs are in place. But the mayor says it’s possible that the number of homeless people will continue to increase, in part because of evictions and the end of COVID-19 aid for low-income households.

According to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), the city’s leading centralized hub for homeless services, more than 75,500 people were considered homeless in 2023, a 9% increase countywide. In the city, about 46,200 were considered homeless, a 10% increase from the previous year. 

Fox News Digital reported that a coalition of business owners and residents in L.A. filed a lawsuit against the city, arguing it did not honor its 2020 settlement agreement that promised it would build thousands of shelters and sweep out homeless encampments.

Last week, the Los Angeles City Council voted to allocate $2.2 million to hire an external firm to conduct an audit of its homelessness programs, following a request from a federal judge.

Meanwhile, President Joe Biden has based a good portion of his campaign on his economic policies — collectively known as “Bidenomics” — but the reality is, they are not that stellar.

A December report found that the number of homeless Americans surged 12 percent in one year, a record, The Washington Post reported.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development issued its snapshot report a week before Christmas, and it showed that more than 650,000 people were experiencing homelessness for a minimum of at least one night.

It is a 12 percent increase from the snapshot of 2022 and the highest since the report began in 2007.

“Homelessness should not exist in the United States,” HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge said on X, formerly Twitter.

“The data released today underscores the urgent need for support for proven solutions and strategies that help people quickly exit homelessness and that prevent homelessness in the first place,” she said.

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