‼️ @dickclucas in just a couple minutes summarizes the homelessness crisis in @santamonicacity (& LA + CA in general) better than anyone every has. A city of 90,000 being held hostage by 714 bums who get criminal IMMUNITY & $2 MILLION taxpayer-funded condos, destroying economy & city life, while neighboring Beverly Hills, Manhattan Beach & other cities figured out that vagrants don’t come if you arrest & prosecute crime and DON’T build free luxury housing for them. This isn’t hard. And it’s not a difference in ideology - it’s a criminal issue. @ctorosis & @jessezwick & others on the city council are obviously part of a scheme to destroy the city in the name of homelessness so that their developer pals can buy the nicest land on earth for nothing. These same people have destroyed the historic San Vicente Blvd coral trees (likely to build bus rapid transit in a single family residential area to upzone it to apartments), downtown parking structures (for luxury homeless housing), ice skating rink (more homeless housing), and plan to destroy more parking structures, Bergamot Station - largest public arts complex in the western U.S. (homeless and affordable housing), THE SANTA MONICA AIRPORT (allegedly a park but it’ll become 20,000 homeless housing units), and even the 10 FREEWAY as it cuts through the city. Meanwhile, the historic Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, an architectural masterpiece that once hosted the Oscars, has been sitting boarded up for years, because the council would LOVE to turn it into… HOMELESS HOUSING!!!! They have taken out dozens of miles of traffic lanes on busy boulevards & reduced speed limits to 15-20 MPH to prevent careless homeless pedestrians from getting hit by cars. At every turn, while other cities create & improve, they destroy. I pray that @USAO_LosAngeles @USAttyEssayli @billessayli @HUDgov @SecretaryTurner @FBILosAngeles come down HARD on these guys so we can restore sanity to this great place. Enough is enough!