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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]why is that tent city on asphalt better than an SRO?[/quote]
You could do some research. SROs were financially unsustainable and unsafe.

[quote][b]Problems Plague City-Backed Hotel : Housing: Drugs, crime are rampant at Downtown hotel renovated under ambitious program, police say.[/b]
NOV. 25, 1995 12 AM PT
TIMES STAFF WRITER
After living on the grimy streets of Downtown Los Angeles, Herman Lewis thought that moving into the Hayward Manor hotel at 6th and Spring streets would bring more safety and comfort.

Within days, he realized he was wrong. “You might as well be on the street,” said Lewis, who lived at the Hayward from August, 1994, through May, 1995. “Drugs are everywhere. You don’t even have to go outside of the place. You can get anything you want inside.”

Drug dealing and drug use are only some of the problems facing the Hayward Manor, according to police and the current manager, a court-appointed receivership representative. There’s also prostitution, murder, sexual assault, robbery and other crimes.

These kinds of problems are not unusual for some of the low-cost hotels on the fringe of Skid Row. But unlike the others, the Hayward is part of a $110-million citywide project hailed as the most ambitious affordable housing effort in Los Angeles history by outgoing Mayor Tom Bradley in 1993. At a cost of $25 million, the Hayward was the most expensive of the 15 affordable housing projects unveiled that day.

Now, two years later, the 525-unit single resident occupancy hotel is in danger of defaulting on a $13.4-million city-authorized revenue bond, according to the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s. And taxpayers may never be repaid for a $10-million city loan made in 1992 for acquisition and rehabilitation of the beleaguered hotel, city officials acknowledge.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-11-25-me-6994-story.html
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tents on asphalt are better? [/quote]
I see you want to establish a strawman for some bs argument. Look buddy, your problem is that you presume that you are the first person that thought of something. The outcome was that the city lit money on fire while the homeless felt more safe on the street. [/quote]
From what I understand, the people that think every issue is about land use and zoning are now think that SROs are the solution for homelessness. It quite smug, arrogant and directly contradicts a lot of other stuff they promote, but who needs to be consistent, right? It is just an incredible mindset to think that zoning is the cause and the solution. Total broken brain stuff to think that social ills are effectively an early 2010s "one neat trick" listicle, but about zoning. But also, quite arrogant to not actually consider why there are no SROs.[/quote]

I’m not sure why you’re throwing so much blame around here? There’s no culture wars over SROs. It’s a totally logical question to ask why SROs can’t be one part of an effective solution, when the one here (tents on asphalt) seems more expensive and not any better an environment for the homeless person than an SRO. [/quote]
So you just came up with the idea of SROs out of thin air? What neighborhood do you think they should be located it that should be then turned into a "Bowery" or "Skid Row"?

Even minimal research shows why they are terrible on some many fronts and why they were eliminated. Public ones are financially unsustainable and unsafe. Private ones are expensive, unsanitary and unsafe. Both kinds are epicenters of significant social ills that spill out as negative externalities into their neighboring communities, affecting everyone in the area.

No one wants to talk about it, but the only real solution is to bring back sanitoriums and involuntary commitment for the mentally ill, transitional housing with mandatory drug treatment for the addicts, and jail + halfway houses for the criminal sociopaths.[/quote]

SROs are just one type of supportive housing characterized by smaller units.  But thanks for confirming your real agenda. [/quote]

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