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Where are LA’s homeless from? I surveyed 210 homeless across LA, finding the majority are not from LA. My latest with @christopherrufo in @CityJournal:
city-journal.org/article/la-hom…
Kenneth Schrupp
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Kenneth Schrupp
@kennethschrupp
Los Angeles, CA
Joined August 2015
- How did California prepare for the deadly Palisades Fire? My investigation shows in the last two years, CalFire funded just one Palisades brush clearance, leaving the community completely exposed — undermining Newsom's narrative the state is doing its part to reduce fire risk...
- Replying to @BradWilcoxIFS @lymanstoneky and @TheAtlanticBreaking news: people prefer to marry those who share their values
- After my coverage of SB 549, @BenAllenCA has placed the LA Resilient Rebuilding Authority bill on hold. Thank you to everyone for sharing and bringing attention to this story!
CA Senate passes bill to let LA buy fire-destroyed lots for low-income housing justthenews.com/nation/states/… - Replying to @whatifalthistThings that were luxuries in Boomers’ youth — air travel, foreign cuisine, electronics — are cheaper today in relative terms, while the basics for life that were cheap back then — housing, education, healthcare — are debilitatingly expensive now.
- Replying to @TheFP and @Olivia_ReingoldLet’s see Paul Allen’s dating profile
- Gifted programs have helped millions rise of out of poverty. This isn’t progress.
- Replying to @caitozIn the 1970s we went off the gold standard and started printing money, stopped building as many houses, and offshored industry while dramatically increasing immigration, thus increasing external and internal labor competition. How would you address these factors?
- Replying to @VladTheInflatorI found a CA ZIP code in Chula Vista, next to the Mexican border, where the maximum voucher amount is $7,030:
- Tim Walz looks and sounds exactly like Neelix, the most annoying character in Star Trek
- California says its roads have improved 29% since Newsom took office in 2019. But it turns out the state is now just measuring 65% less roadway than it did under Jerry Brown; is the state just measuring the good roads? I went to Caltrans and USDOT to find out. 1/
- Replying to @mnolangrayGreat vision but it’d just become one giant homeless encampment full of needles and excrement. We don’t get nice things until we have the state capacity and will to keep nice things.
- It seems like @PacificLegal thinks the City of Los Angeles's low-income replacement housing requirement could apply to fire-destroyed apartments and is an unconstitutional takings. This builds on their earlier legal victories, which could be used in a case against these rules🪡
