Los Angeles just spent $20 million converting a functioning homeless shelter into 32 units that sit completely empty four years later — at $625,000 per unit — while nobody can account for the people who were displaced when the original building closed. That scandal lands against a broader backdrop of San Francisco's drug enforcement collapse, where arrests fell to near-zero as overdose deaths tripled to 810 per year, and where 162 people have died in one nonprofit's "supportive" housing buildings since 2020. The emerging fault line in California homelessness politics is between officials pushing enforcement and treatment — like SF Mayor Lurie's new RESET Center — and progressives still defending a status quo that the body count has already judged.
Los Angeles emptied a building that was already housing people. Four years and $625,000 per unit later, it still houses nobody.
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Drug arrests collapsed to zero. Overdose deaths tripled to 810 per year. The data is in, and so is the body count.
162 people have died of overdoses in their buildings since 2020. Their solution? Help the residents use drugs.
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