Staff Reports
Americans can barely scrape by, struggling to pay rent, put food on the table, and manage bills under President Joe Biden’s administration. Yet, in the liberal haven of Los Angeles, Democrat politicians have concocted an idea straight out of a socialist daydream: luxury apartments funded by hard-working taxpayers to house the homeless.
In the progressive playground that is L.A., Democrat leaders have decided to tackle the homelessness problem with opulence. They’ve built the Weingart Tower, a 19-story, high-rise apartment smack dab in Skid Row, a 54-block disaster zone known for homelessness, poverty, and rampant drug use. This isn’t your run-of-the-mill shelter though—oh no, it comes decked out with a gym, art room, music room, computer room, library, six common balconies, and even a café. Homeless residents will be pampered with amenities that any middle-class American would probably envy.
Taxpayers Spend $600k Per Unit to House Homeless In This Democrat City https://t.co/mNvY1W9bTC
secretary Dr. Ben Carson had a great idea. Build housing outside in the boonies, bus the homeless in to stay overnight, then have bus service available for them to leave during…
— Henry Cheng (@HenryCheng6) June 21, 2024
The cherry on top? The $165 million project will have its 278 units costing more than $600,000 each. That’s more than the price of a median condo in the very city they’re supposedly rescuing! Funny how the Democrats’ solution to homelessness is to outspend the market value of actual living spaces in L.A. And guess who’s footing this extravagant bill? Taxpayers, of course—residents who are already struggling to pay for their own basic needs.
Democrat savior complex doesn’t end there. The Weingart Tower is just the first of three high-rises in this multi-million-dollar debacle. The second tower is scheduled to topple budgets and taxpayers’ sanity in about 18 months, while the third is still in the blueprint stage of overspending. This social experiment dates back to 2016, when L.A. residents reluctantly passed Proposition HHH, approving $1.2 billion in bonds to house the homeless. Spoiler alert: the number of homeless people skyrocketed to roughly 75,518 in just one year.
This isn’t the first time the city has wasted taxpayer money like it’s Monopoly money. Despite a slew of failed tax hikes and initiatives that barely made a dent, the city’s Democrat oligarchs think gold-plated band-aids will fix homelessness. Critics rightly argue that pampering the homeless with luxury accommodations and amenities will only invite more to exploit the system, turning L.A.’s well-intended initiatives into a taxpayer-funded circus.
