Crime, homelessness frame race for mayor of Los Angeles

Solution: Move all the homeless into the homes that middle-class Californians are leaving behind. ;)

Frankly, in a local race like that of LA mayor, political parties really don't matter.

And Joe Blow: thanks for your snark. Perhaps we could send the 30% of LA homeless who drifted in from red states back.

Defund the police and let Antifa burn, loot, and kill, and this is the result?

Shocking.

Looting takes place right in front of security guards in California and they do nothing.

This is the America that some envisioned.

Don’t kid yourself into believing there’s a candidate who will reverse the decay. Corruption pays well.

The Democrats are running out of room on the LA coffin to bang in the nails. Where will they put them all in the next term?

It flourished for many years, fortified by unionized jobs in aerospace and entertainment.

Despite a Democratic supermajority Calforna failed to pass universal healthcare.

The neo-lib oligarchy is just as evil as a conservative Trumpist junta. There needs to be a democratic socialist revolution which is what Californians have really been looking forward to. Universal healthcare, UBI and guaranteed education and housing.

The many American homeless, including large numbers of Veterans, is absolutely tragic and needs to be addressed with all due haste. regardless of party politics.

While California is referred to in the above article, we acknowledge even our beloved Honolulu is also on this list of great American shame: Sep 11, 2021 - https://usabynumbers.com/cities-with-highest-homeless-rate/

Texas also has serious homeless issues but is neither referred to in the above story nor in the statistics provided. (That additional comment may just be there, maybe not out of legitimate concern for their plight, but perhaps just some bait to catch some bass later in the evening.)

The good thing about Japan is that they solved this problem decades ago. Cost of living too high? Build more homes! And the results speak for themselves.

NIMBYs ("Don't build new homes in my neighborhood") are destroying American cities by zoning out new apartments to increase their property values.

It's causing the cost of living to explode and leading to homelessness, socioeconomic inequality, and homelessness.

Why does America continue to spend so much money on wars and weapons abroad when it should be spending money to tackle homelessness, poverty, crime and lack of affordable healthcare?

Have to agree with @zichi 9:28pm. - Seems like rich countries like Japan could just do so much better for their 15% living in poverty.

*@zichi 9:28pm**: “It's tragic and shameful when rich countries can't take care of their people in need.”*

In the states if you look at the areas where most homeless are they are located in liberal RED states with large cities. Los Angeles, Honolulu, Dallas, Portland, Chicago. They are governed by democrats who have given every thing to social programs and created a bunch of useless people who feel they don't have to work because they can get handouts. On top of it if you look at those cities they have large immigrant population which contribute to the shortage of housing. Its evident crime is out of control because of the relaxed penalties these liberal politicians approve up because they divide and conquer and give out freebies for the exchange of a vote. Keep in mind NONE OF THESE liberal politicians don't live in the communities where the homeless live but its in their district. They did nothing just gave lip service and run up on taxes on the hard working people to pay for a bunch of people who have no desire in life to just drink, do drugs and commit crimes.