Homelessness in Los Angeles

Younan accuses California of diverting homelessness funds to other pet projects.

“California took a lot of money, but they didn't spend it on homelessness. They wasted it on other pet projects that they had”

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Younan attributes rising homelessness in America largely to high interest rates.

“that's one of the reasons the homelessness has increased so much in America is because Interest rate is so high”

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Carolla disputed Bass's view that sleeping on sidewalks drives people crazy, saying mental illness precedes street homelessness.

“Sidewalk doesn't make you crazy. You have to be crazy to sleep outdoors on the sidewalk”

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Carolla conceded Raman had a point that with so many homeless people and schools, keeping encampments away from schools is mathematically difficult.

“It's going to be nearly impossible to keep them all from being in front of the school”

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Rogan says he left Los Angeles partly because he believes a massive earthquake is inevitable and the city is poorly run.

“I always thought L.A. is 100 percent going to have a massive earthquake one day”

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Rogan argues shutting down mental health institutions during the Reagan administration was a giant societal error that left schizophrenic people on the street.

“they shut them down during the Reagan administration. That was one of the giant errors of society when they shut down all the mental health institutions”

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Sheridan argues that NGOs lack incentive to solve problems like homelessness because solving them would end their funding.

“So they don't create them to solve problems. Anything exacerbate the problem. Make the problem worse”

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Lovett argues that clearing homeless encampments would be broadly popular even among Democrats despite loud online opposition.

“When I bet if you polled people, even Democrats, it would be a 70-30, 80-20 issue”

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Hammer contrasts Houston's centralized city-run homelessness program, which he says reduced homelessness, with Los Angeles's nonprofit network.

“Instead of nonprofits, it's one central city-run organization, and they've actually decreased homelessness”

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Damilare Sonoiki says he was skeptical of media depictions of drug-ridden cities until he saw San Francisco and Skid Row for himself.

“when fox news would say that san francisco is full of these zombie drug addicts i went to san francisco for the first time in maybe 10 years”

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