While Leaders Are Busy Virtue Signaling…Guess What LA Has Seen A 75% Increase Of!

California government leaders have been SUPER busy pretending to be compassionate by putting the priorities of illegal aliens above their own citizens’

MEANWHILE THEIR CITIES ARE GOING TO SH*T.

L.A.’s homelessness surged 75% in six years https://t.co/hK70Oljjhj pic.twitter.com/lC1Oz0opY1

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) February 4, 2018

Great job, LA. Fantastic news. Doing great things over there!

According to the LA Times:

On any given day, as many as 20 people take to the City Hall lawn, across the street from LAPD headquarters. They’re there to “escape the madness” in downtown streets, a 53-year-old homeless man named Lazarus said last week. At night, they fan out to doorways or deserted plazas to wait for daybreak.

The growth of a homeless day camp at the halls of civic power speaks to the breadth of Los Angeles’ burgeoning homelessness problem.

The number of those living in the streets and shelters of the city of L.A. and most of the county surged 75% — to roughly 55,000 from about 32,000 — in the last six years. (Including Glendale, Pasadena and Long Beach, which conduct their own homeless counts, the total is nearly 58,000.)

Three out of four homeless people — 41,000 — live in cars, campers, tents and lean-tos, by far the biggest single group of unsheltered people in any U.S. city.

Keep in mind that this increase accounts for the last 6 years. Five of those years were during the Obama presidency. That last year was during Trump’s.

Interestingly…

If you took out Los Angeles, national homelessness would have dropped last year for the first time since the recession.

WELL, WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT.

The problem has only gotten worse since Mayor Eric Garcetti took office in 2013 and a liberal Democratic supermajority emerged in 2016 on the county Board of Supervisors.

Tent cities stretch from the Antelope Valley desert to the Santa Monica coast, with stopovers in unlikely communities — even Bel-Air, where a homeless cooking fire was implicated in December’s Skirball fire.

During an October hygiene survey, county public health officials identified 222 encampments, including 50 with 30 or more people living in them. These ragtag outposts have altered the basic terms of urban life.

People in Koreatown step outside their fancy condos to find tents, rotting food and human feces at their doorsteps. Buses and trains have become de facto shelters, and thousands of people sleep in fear and degradation.

Wow. Sounds like PARADISE.

LOLOLOL. Just kidding. California, one of the most naturally beautiful places on the planet, is turning into actual hell.

Good job, Democrats. Keep it up.