Democrat “solutions” involve spending tons of taxpayer money to poorly address problems that they have created. In Los Angeles, the democrats running the show are paying $130,000 for 8×8 aluminum sheds to house the people made homeless by the city’s unscientific coronavirus lockdown orders. These same sheds can be purchased for around $500 but then what would the democrats waste the rest of the money on?
California and especially Los Angeles have some really attractive policies that act like magnets for bums and scumbags alike. LA also put millions of residents out of work with meaningless COVID-19 restrictions so the city is teeming with homeless people. Letting people earn a living is out of the question so Mayor Eric Garcetti has decided the best way to solve the city’s homelessness problem he created is to house people in utility sheds. No, seriously.
Check this out from KTLA:
In other cities, 64-square-foot aluminum and composite sheds are being used as quick and inexpensive emergency shelter for homeless people.
Not in Los Angeles. Here, plans to employ the minimalist structures, known as “tiny homes,” have blossomed into expensive development projects with access roads, underground utilities and concrete foundations — and commensurate planning delays.
At the city’s first tiny home village, scheduled to open in January, each of the 39 closet-sized homes is costing $130,000, about 10 times what some other cities are spending. Five more villages are planned to open later.
Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the program in March, signaling that the concept of sheltering people in tiny homes, long neglected in Los Angeles, had emerged as a leading strategy in the city’s response to a federal lawsuit alleging it has done too little to get homeless people off the streets.
Garcetti’s response to him not doing enough to get homeless people off the streets is a program that doesn’t get very many homeless people off of the streets. Plus it costs a ton.
KTLA says that other cities are getting their bum shacks for ten times less than the $130,000/each LA is paying. That’s still $13,000 for a shed that anyone can buy at Home Depot for around $500. I find it hard to believe the labor costs for assembling one of these sheds is $12,500 in the rest of the country and $129,500 in LA.
64 square feet means these sheds are 8 feet by 8 feet and according to the news, are made of either aluminum or composites, meaning plastic. Here’s a picture of these wonderful tiny homes:
I went on Amazon to see what kind of deals Garcetti was missing out on. I found a variety of sheds that fit the requirements priced from $186 to $2,300. Most however fall into the $500 range. This one, is even bigger and made of steel and still only runs $622:
It got 4 stars and there’s free shipping. Nobody in the feedback section mentioned how good this shed is at housing the homeless, but it’s a shed so presumably it’s as effective as the $130,000 LA “tiny homes.”
In fact, I found this one which looks exactly like one of the “tiny homes” LA spent $130,000 on:
The only difference is, this one goes for under a grand.
I’m clearly in the wrong business. I should be getting sheds from Amazon for $500 and then selling them to the City of Los Angeles for $130,000. Some lucky contractor made $5,050,500 profit off of this 39 tiny home village.
There’s almost 70,000 homeless people in Los Angeles and the city spent over $5 million to house 39 of them in garden sheds. This is what it looks like when democrats “solve” problems.
