Even the Homeless are Moving to the Suburbs

L.A. County doesn't think the homeless problem should be confined to the downtown area (where incidentally, all of the big charitable organizations that cater to the homeless are located). Instead, they've come up with an expensive plan to move the homeless to the suburbs...where people moved to get away from the crime and homeless problems of downtown:

A controversial plan to clean up downtown's Skid Row by building a network of regional homeless shelters in the suburbs has won county approval.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 Tuesday in favor of the $100 million plan, which parallels a push by city and state officials to tackle crime and blight in the downtown district.

Skid Row has for decade had one of the nation's largest concentrations of homeless people, in part because it has a cluster of shelters and services to help them. Hospitals and law enforcement have recently come under fire for dumping the homeless in the area.

Under the new plan, one "regional stabilization center" would be built in each of the county's five supervisorial districts at sites yet to be named. The centers would be 24-hour drop-off points where hospitals, police and care providers could leave people in need of housing.

Of course, the "regional stabilization centers" (a name which reminds of me of the saying about putting lipstick on a pig) will stabilize nothing, but instead will bring instability to the suburban areas where they will be located. Introducing drug abusers, alcoholics and generally crazy people into suburban areas is not what I'd call a well-thought out plan for "stabilization".

I wonder if the voters in these newly "stabilized" areas will get a say in this?