Should L.A. Help LA? Or Do We First Help Our Own Homeless?
The big question Los Angeles officials face now is whether our city will take in New Orleans’ “refugees” (although Rev. Jesse Jackson says we should not call them “refugees” but “survivors”.)
The Dream Center called PATH this past week to ask if we could help them take in 300 survivors. Many churches with a predominantly African American congregation and who have relatives in the South, are also considering taking in survivors. The media reports that Texas is taking in 300,000 survivors.
The Los Angeles Times reports today that the Mayor and other Los Angeles officials are deciding whether our city will also become a refuge. Here's the article.
The barrier, however, is this… we already have 91,000 homeless in our city/county, and only 20,000 shelter beds. So every day we are already struggling how to house our own citizens.
Los Angeles City Councilmember Jan Perry is quoted in the Times article: “We would not be able to accommodate a giant influx. We have 90,000 people who are homeless in L.A. County, and we’re not doing a comprehensive job of taking care of them now.”
So what do we do? First help our own citizens? Or help those fleeing New Orleans?
LA City Councilmember Bernard Parks has an interesting insight: “I think people (from the Gulf States) are going to show up, whether they are invited or not, and the city is going to have to adjust. We have to start thinking about it.”
Are we ready?
posted by LA's Homeless Blog at
7:17 PM
1 Comments:
Avoid the Dream Center at all costs. It's a big money making scam profiting off the homeless, and now that it is skilled from exploiting the faith based charity initiative to shelve the homeless into drug rehab, the Dream Center is confident to make BILLIONS off Katrina evacuees doing the same thing.
Don't believe me? Take a look at the Dream Center web site http://www.dreamcenter.org/relief_photos.shtml and there you will see a big fat DONATE HERE link below the faces of the displaced New Orleanians.
Also, I'd like to say I am disappointed in Ted Hayes' change of heart with seeing the Dream Center as profiting off Katrina... but that can be explained... he was bought off. The man sold out to the Dream Center when they bought a bunch of pods off him.
I guess the lesson learned is this... if you find stink and complain about it loud enough, you will be offered a house or money to go away... at least that has what has happened to the more vocal Katrina evacuees... the ones who complain the loudest first are the ones who are suddenly "blessed" with a new six month apartment free of rent, or a home in San Bernadino, but of course that has to be documented on a show like Dr Phil's and then ca-ching, the registers all start going mad over the internet with thousands of people clicking on that DONATE HERE link...
I mean, it's bloody brilliant. Way to go Pastor Barnett! You're a made man!
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