HOW LOW CAN BLUE CITIES SINK? [merged threads]

[TBoneTX 45,835]

Sad: Community group in Chicago pleads with gangbangers: '9 AM - 9 PM no shooting'

 

Things have gotten so bad in Chicago that the most a well-meaning and sincere community group can aspire to is getting the gangbanger community to confine its shooting to the overnight 12 hours of 9 P.M. to 9 A.M.  A kind of daylight curfew for drive-by shootings.  [...]

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/08/sad_community_group_in_chicago_pleads_with_gangbangers_9_am__9_pm_no_shooting.html

[TBoneTX 45,835]

A surprise entry.

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The Fall of a Great American City

 

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — It's 10:30 a.m. on a Thursday morning and a homeless man is curled up against the decorative angled brick below the archways of the large pane windows that line the office building known as the Fort Pitt Commons.  [...]

 

https://hotair.com/salena-zito/2023/08/15/the-fall-of-a-great-american-city-n571225

[TBoneTX 45,835]

Owner of 165-year-old San Francisco store warns this year could be the company's last

 

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/08/14/owner-of-165-year-old-san-francisco-store-warns-this-year-could-be-the-companys-last-n571261

[Boiler 45,885]

An LA hotel became homeless housing. The city paid $11.5 million to cover the damage

https://www.starbeacon.com/region/an-la-hotel-became-homeless-housing-the-city-paid-11-5-million-to-cover-the/article_54abb328-24f3-5927-944b-61d2c36f7c12.html#:~:text=The city paid %2411.5 million to cover the damage,-David Zahniser - Los&text=LOS ANGELES — By the time,Westlake neighborhood%2C had been shattered.

 

Windows at the 294-room boutique hotel, in L.A.'s Westlake neighborhood, had been shattered. Bathrooms had been vandalized. In some locations, carpet had been torn off the floor.

"Participant in 1516 Threatened staff, Security, destroyed property. Screamed. Yelled cursed. Everything went wrong with her. Inside and outside the building," wrote a worker with Helpline Youth Counseling Inc., a service provider assigned to the hotel, in early 2022.

Those and other incidents were described in emails sent to the city of Los Angeles during the final six months of the Mayfair's participation in Project Roomkey, a federally funded initiative that transformed hotels across L.A. into temporary homeless shelters. The emails, copies of which were obtained by The Times, depict a staff of security guards, nurses, hotel managers and others grappling with drug overdoses, property damage and what they characterized as aggressive and even violent behavior.

"Around 10 am a male in 1526 assaulted another resident in Room 726," a security guard wrote in March 2022. "The situation was quickly broken up and 1526 was escorted out by police."

The city has quietly paid the hotel's owner $11.5 million in recent months to resolve damage claims filed over Project Roomkey.

 

Bad enough but:

 

Now, Mayor Karen Bass wants the city to purchase the Mayfair and convert it into homeless housing once again. But this time, residents, merchants and property owners are pushing back, saying they don't want a return of the conditions they say they encountered when the Mayfair took in unhoused residents from Echo Park, Koreatown and other areas.

[TBoneTX 45,835]

4 hours ago, Boiler said:

residents, merchants and property owners are pushing back, saying they don't want a return of the conditions they say they encountered

They have zero say in the matter and are probably racist, sexist, imperialist, and far more for this arrogant opinion.

[Boiler 45,885]

166-year-old luxury retailer in San Francisco warns: This could be our last year
 

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/15/business/gumps-store-open-letter-san-francisco/index.html

 

John Chachas, the owner of luxury department store Gump’s San Francisco, wrote an open letter to Governor Newsom, Mayor London Breed, and the city’s Board of Supervisors, pleading for them to act on what he describes as the city’s worsening downtown conditions.

“Today, as we prepare for our 166th holiday season at 250 Post Street, we fear this may be our last,” Chachas wrote in an open letter, published as a paid ad in the Sunday edition of the San Francisco Chronicle.

[TBoneTX 45,835]

1 hour ago, Boiler said:

166-year-old luxury retailer in San Francisco warns: This could be our last year

See 2 posts above.  Neh nehneh boo-boo

[Boiler 45,885]

 

[TBoneTX 45,835]

There was a huge homeless camp fire in Seattle Monday

 

[...] Monday's fire isn't even the most serious homeless camp fire to happen in Seattle recently.  In July, the former leader of a camp site adjacent to Harborview Medical Center set bombs at his former camp in an act of revenge.  [...]

 

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/08/16/there-was-a-huge-homeless-camp-fire-in-seattle-monday-n571650

[TBoneTX 45,835]

George Gascon's Own Employees Are Being Terrorized, and Even 'Bleeding-Heart Liberals' Have Had Enough

 

[...] According to a new report, former supporters of Gascon are turning on the far-left prosecutor, hiring their own security, and speaking out about the situation.  [...]

 

https://www.redstate.com/bonchie/2023/08/16/george-gascons-own-employees-are-being-terrorized-and-even-bleeding-heart-liberals-have-had-enough-n2162719

[Dashinka 24,705]

11 hours ago, Boiler said:

 

So the Democrats vote for more crime, then cry to the government to help them when that crime drives away businesses?  Seems like a nefarious plan, or just cluelessness.  Either way, they got what they voted for.

[Dashinka 24,705]

Businesses setting up booby traps to protect themselves in this blue city's drug haven: recovering addict

 

https://www.foxnews.com/us/businesses-setting-up-booby-traps-protect-themselves-blue-citys-drug-haven-recovering-addict

[TBoneTX 45,835]

I'm mystified how anyone could see benefit in this undertaking.

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During the pandemic LA moved homeless people into hotels and it went about as well as you'd expect

 

The Mayfair Hotel in Los Angeles was built in 1926.  It underwent a four-year-long renovation and reopened in 2018.  And then the pandemic hit about 16 months later.  That was when LA announced a new program called Project Roomkey designed to stop the spread of COVID among the homeless by moving them off the streets and into hotel rooms the city would pay for.  The Mayfair became one of the hotels used for this purpose.  [...]

 

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/08/17/during-the-pandemic-la-moved-homeless-people-into-hotels-and-it-went-about-as-well-as-youd-expect-n571827

[Dashinka 24,705]

Hmm, so at least someone is going to make money in San Fran.

 

San Francisco ‘doom loop’ walking tour gets visitors ‘close and personal to the squalor’ — and it’s already sold out

 

Tourists curious about San Francisco’s “urban decay” of abandoned shops, open-air drug use and homeless encampments can get a guided tour of the whole thing.

 

A street-savvy guide fed up with the lack of action by the local government says they will take people on the so-called “Doom Loop Walking Tour” to see the worst of the city for themselves.

 

A tongue-in-cheek ad for the tour claims: “You’ve read the headlines. You’ve seen the Tweets, now get close and personal to the Doom and Squalor of downtown San Francisco.

 

“How can a city with a $14.6 billion annual budget be a model of urban decay? How can it spend $776.8 million per year on police and have no rule of law to show for it?

 

“Discover the policy choices that made America’s wealthiest city the nation’s innovative leader of housing crisis, addiction crisis, mental-health crisis and unrepentant crime crisis.”

 

https://nypost.com/2023/08/15/san-francisco-doom-loop-walking-tour-gets-visitors-close-and-personal-to-the-squalor/

[Boiler 45,885]