What kind of brainless idiots are the CA people electing???

[The Sound Guy]

This is the stupidest idea I've seen out of them for a while:

Los Angeles hotel leader warns homeless housing proposal will 'kill' industry's marketability

Los Angeles voters will decide on a policy that would force hotels to house the homeless, but some hotel leaders are worried about the impact on tourism.

www.foxnews.com

Hotel owners in Los Angeles are becoming increasingly worried as residents are expected to vote on a proposal that would mandate housing the homeless in vacant rooms across the city.

President of the Northeast Los Angeles Hotel Owners Association Ray Patel joined "America's Newsroom" on Tuesday to discuss his concern surrounding the policy and the impact it could have on the tourism industry.

"What they're going to mandate, if this is passed by the electorate, is that we turn over our inventory to the city of Los Angeles, issued out homeless vouchers, and you know that that'll kill our marketability of the hotel industry," Patel told co-host Bill Hemmer. "It'll hurt us badly. The value of the hotels will go down and tourism and corporate travel will be affected in the city of Los Angeles."

The voucher program, which voters are expected to vote on in 2024, would require hotels to send the city information on their vacant rooms for the day by 2 p.m. daily.

Those rooms would then be subject to homeless individuals looking to redeem the vouchers.

Patel warned a local labor union, UNITE HERE! Local 11, has been garnering signatures to propose similar policies before the Los Angeles City Council, but is not transparent about what voters are signing on to.

"What folks don't know is what else they're signing in to… the petitions packed with other items and initiatives that benefit the unions but hurt the hotel industry," Patel said. "And they had passed a similar initiative a month ago, which is now law that limits the hours that housekeepers can work in the hotels and other things."

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Who's going to pay for all the extra damage and the pest control that will be needed? Why are companies even staying in CA? I don't understand it.

 

[Guard Dad]

Seems a lot of people in this country have lost their minds. It's downright scary!

 

[Far West]

The homeless have mental issues, drug problems and many are just plane old criminals.

We won't even check in locals. If they are from San Diego, we do use our right to deny housing, especially if they come in on a bicycle or skate board. However we have had problems with ones in a car. Many homeless are not from California, so their ID will show another state.... but their burner phone will be a local area code. Often their credit cards are no good. We wont take cash, or a credit card without a name or a chip. We don't take Chime or any of the other non credit card, credit cards. As a hotel, you are allowed to refuse service if you feel there will be a problem.

We find that locals sell drugs and use the rooms for prostitution and we are not that kind of hotel.

Ironically those type will say their house had a flood, or tell about another type of problem with the home. When they start out with that story as they bike into our lobby... we make it impossible to check in.

The homeless are a nightmare. They bring in dogs, usually pit bulls, that are not trained, so they bark at people and try to bite. They say they are a service dog. Service dogs don't bite or bark. We don't take emotional support animals- which they will try to tell us they are emotional support animals when the animal barks and is aggressive to people walking by.

They bring in their homeless friends all throughout the night... then they all get drunk or drugged up, which leads to fights and all sorts of nonsense, usually at 2 or 3 am.

We only took "essential workers" or people from out of town during the "pandemic", it kept things normal.

A hotel across the street from us had some city council woman open a "Go Fund Me" account for the unsheltered (homeless criminals) and even now the hotel constantly has the police over there for all sorts of problems. These people are homeless for a reason, and they don't belong where there is not someone with keys to lock them in a room, and a gun to enforce it.

 

[Boss 302]

This is the stupidest idea I've seen out of them for a while:

Los Angeles hotel leader warns homeless housing proposal will 'kill' industry's marketability

Los Angeles voters will decide on a policy that would force hotels to house the homeless, but some hotel leaders are worried about the impact on tourism.

www.foxnews.com

Hotel owners in Los Angeles are becoming increasingly worried as residents are expected to vote on a proposal that would mandate housing the homeless in vacant rooms across the city.

President of the Northeast Los Angeles Hotel Owners Association Ray Patel joined "America's Newsroom" on Tuesday to discuss his concern surrounding the policy and the impact it could have on the tourism industry.

"What they're going to mandate, if this is passed by the electorate, is that we turn over our inventory to the city of Los Angeles, issued out homeless vouchers, and you know that that'll kill our marketability of the hotel industry," Patel told co-host Bill Hemmer. "It'll hurt us badly. The value of the hotels will go down and tourism and corporate travel will be affected in the city of Los Angeles."

The voucher program, which voters are expected to vote on in 2024, would require hotels to send the city information on their vacant rooms for the day by 2 p.m. daily.

Those rooms would then be subject to homeless individuals looking to redeem the vouchers.

Patel warned a local labor union, UNITE HERE! Local 11, has been garnering signatures to propose similar policies before the Los Angeles City Council, but is not transparent about what voters are signing on to.

"What folks don't know is what else they're signing in to… the petitions packed with other items and initiatives that benefit the unions but hurt the hotel industry," Patel said. "And they had passed a similar initiative a month ago, which is now law that limits the hours that housekeepers can work in the hotels and other things."

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Who's going to pay for all the extra damage and the pest control that will be needed? Why are companies even staying in CA? I don't understand it.

The first thing the hotel industry should do if this passes is to tell LA to kiss their ass and then file a lawsuit against the city. It doesn't matter if the electorate approves this - it's unconstitutional.

 

[Far West]

You solve this problem by reopening mental institutions, sending people who do drugs to mandatory drug treatment centers or jail... their choice.

Truly most are mentally ill.

It is very sad.

It is not compassionate to leave the mentally ill living on the street. We should have mental health institutions open up again.

I don't know how much worse the problem has to be for society to say enough, and pass laws to make it legal to commit the mentally ill to an institution.

If they don't want that. They are free to take their meds, get a job, and get their own apartment.

You have the right not to live in an institution, but you don't have the right to live on our sidewalks, under our overpasses, by our rivers, in our parks, behind our stadiums, along our roadways, parks or open spaces.... period. That is called loitering, which used to get you locked up.

 

[Boss 302]

You solve this problem by reopening mental institutions, sending people who do drugs to mandatory drug treatment centers or jail... their choice.

Truly most are mentally ill.

It is very sad.

It is not compassionate to leave the mentally ill living on the street. We should have mental health institutions open up again.

I don't know how much worse the problem has to be for society to say enough, and pass laws to make it legal to commit the mentally ill to an institution.

If they don't want that. They are free to take their meds, get a job, and get their own apartment.

You have the right not to live in an institution, but you don't have the right to live on our sidewalks, under our overpasses, by our rivers, in our parks, behind our stadiums, along our roadways, parks or open spaces.... period. That is called loitering, which used to get you locked up.

True, but it's not going to happen.

 

[Far West]

By the way... many reservations are made between 2PM and 11PM... No way would the hotels want to cut off bookings at 2 PM. The whole suggestion is once again presented by some social justice warrior who does not believe in private property or know how hotels operate.

True, but it's not going to happen.

Yet...

The problems the homeless cause are starting to seep into the nice areas... there is outrage everywhere, as there should be.

I think the pendulum is going to swing and all these homeless will find themselves in a camp in the middle of the desert somewhere.

 

[Far West]

Haaa haaa... I read some comments:

So are they going to add AirBnB and peoples vacation homes to this list also?

Here in Portland, They have spent millions of dollars building homeless villages with actual cabins for these folks to live on a full time bases. Well, turns out the homeless prefer to be exactly where they are. The homeless camps have less than 50% occupancy and they can’t pay these folks to go to them. Wow! for any government to start giving away peoples private property and livelihood is a whole other dimension! I see law suits galore coming down on the City of Los Angeles to the point that L.A. may become America’s First Third World City. Hard to believe the voters of LA would or could get such thing even on the ballot. What’s next? Open the grocery stores for a free-for-all!

No one needs houses as big as the Hollywood crowds live in. Put homeless in the extra rooms.

Many of the rich ones own a bunch of houses, sometimes multiple homes just in a single area, like LA. And many of those homes have guest houses. I'm guessing you could house tens of thousands just in these properties.

While you're at it, let them share Nancy's ice cream and her liquor cabinet.

Are they going to mandate clothing and food too? What about hair salons and orthodontia and footwear?

Next, we'll have to share our bank accounts if its determined that the IRS thinks if you have more money than they think you should have.

Why not take this to the 'next level' ? Take an audit of all privately owned residential property within the city limits, and force those property owners to house the homeless in their 'spare rooms'. After all, the motels are privately owned, so this should apply to all private property as well.

Democrats - We're not going to do anything about the homeless population. Let's FORCE private industry to do our job. Tourists won't care if junkies and the mentally ill are in the room next door. They're from out of state anyway. Why should we care? It's "equity".

 

[The Sound Guy]

Yeah there have been many times I had to make an unscheduled stop somewhere and make a reservation late in the afternoon or evening.