L.A. Officials Debate Building Restrooms For Homeless, Each Estimated To Cost More Than $300K A Year
LAPPL News Watch
June 10, 2019
It seems like an obvious fix to the squalor and stench as homelessness surges on Los Angeles streets: more restrooms. But L.A. has estimated that staffing and operating a mobile bathroom can cost more than $300,000 annually — a price tag that has galled some politicians.
During budget talks this spring, city officials estimated that providing toilets and showers for every homeless encampment in need would cost more than $57 million a year. “How many single-family homes could you build for that much money?” Councilman Paul Krekorian asked at a hearing at City Hall last month, saying that L.A. had to find a cheaper solution.
The heartburn over the price of bathrooms comes as the number of people living on the streets has surged. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority recently reported that the homeless population grew by 16% in the city this year, reaching more than 36,000.
EDITOR’S NOTE: How many single-family homes could you build for $57 million? In L.A. about20, in San Francisco about 10, in Houston about 60.
I wonder if Councilman Paul Krekorian thinks it would be smarter to build 20 houses for the 36,000 L.A. homeless than to provide them with mobile crappers?
4 comments:
There are companies that build container housing and put them together like blocks. 2 beds and a penitentiary shitter shower. All steel construction that you can hose/bleach out when needed. Contractors use them over seas.
You cold rent a lot of portapotties for that kind of money.
What do you get when you enable bad behavior? More bad behavior. It's the human condition. Making life easier...making it easier for those who refuse to work to survive...only means you will get more of them.
A significant number of the homeless, especially in SF, do not choose to be homeless. That being said, a significant number DO. They are the ones with mental health and substance abuse issues. However, making it both easy and respectable to be homeless sure as hell does not help the problem.
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