The DeVory Darkins Show - LA Mayor STUNNED by DAMNING report on Homelessness

Episode Date: July 27, 2026

LA Mayor STUNNED by DAMNING Report on Homelessness. This comes after sources are reporting the number have reached all time high. Even after spending 400 million dollars to fix this issue unfortunately it's gotten worse. FOLLOW ME:⁠https://www.x.com/devorydarkins⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/devorydarkins⁠⁠https://www.rumble.com/c/devorydarkins⁠⁠https://devory.wtf.tv⁠BUY ME A COFFEE:⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/devorydarkins⁠SHOP OUR MERCH STORE:⁠https://store.devorydarkins.com⁠BUSINESS INQUIRIES:⁠[e-mail]⁠

So it's bad news once again for Mayor Karen Bass and the people of Los Angeles. After forking over almost $400 million to deal with the homelessness issue, guess what? In a new report that's truly damning, in my opinion, the numbers have reached an all-time high. Let's hear more on this. An alarming number revealed by a Fox 11 exclusive investigation. According to multiple inside sources familiar with Loss's latest homeless count, The number of people living on LA streets is up, roughly 3.5% from last year.

I think it's more at that. You think it's more? Right. What makes you think that? I see it all the time. After two straight years of reported declines, sources tell Fox 11 this year's count is expected to climb back to around 2024 levels when it's released Friday. I'm definitely concerned. We've been concerned over the last year that the numbers might go up because of the cuts we've experienced and other changes.

Now, did you notice she's already blaming federal cuts to why her homelessness program doesn't work? I mean, this is a woman who spent $300 million in the city of Los Angeles to fix homelessness, and it didn't work. This is a mayor inside of a state called California that has spent $28 billion on homelessness. And when you ask them a simple question in regards to where the money went, they can't tell you. So instead of getting, I guess, wrapped up in what politicians will promise us, we need to, to be focusing on what does the results show. The results show here, it's been an absolute failure. But hey, she has an excuse for everything.

Mayor Karen Bass just sent us this statement saying for two years straight, we drove down homelessness by historic margins. But as expected, last year our efforts ultimately couldn't keep up with policies and funding cuts on the federal and state levels. This crisis was ignored by city leaders for decades. It's only now that we've seen a historic decline. I will never stop fighting until no Angelinos are sleeping on our streets. Yeah, so she uses words like historic margins, historic decline.

It seems like L.A. is dealing with a historic liar because the numbers don't math on what she's saying. There has not been a historic decline. There's only been a historic increase in homeless. In fact, it's so bad that the people who are becoming homeless, they can't even slow that down either. So it's one thing to try to address people who are already homeless and have been homeless for years. But what about the people who are falling victim to it? They can't even get that under control. And I'm not saying any program out there is going to be perfect. But what she's saying in front of a camera versus what's happening, it definitely doesn't add up.

I don't listen to numbers. My eyes are better than numbers. I've seen a lot going on within the streets that has helped people getting some. Downtown, we face the brunt of it. Downtown is, you know, the heart of the homelessness crisis. We need help. We need more. More resources.

We need to do bigger things. Those are legitimate concerns. And yes, they do need more resources and bigger things to happen to address this issue. The problem, though, is that the mayor did do some big things. And she definitely dedicated resources. But unfortunately, she dedicated resources to the wrong thing. And why do I say that? Well, according to this other report that came out, a fugitive billionaire out of China received $100 million from the mayor to house the homeless.

And wait until you dive into the actual numbers and see what's going on. Listen to this. Why did L.A. pay $100 million to a single hotel? This is the L.A. Grand Hotel, 333 South Figueroa, downtown Los Angeles. When the pandemic hit in 2020, the city leased to move. homeless residents off the street through a project called project rooms later it became inside safe mayor bass's homelessness initiative the program changed landlord didn't payments didn't stop the city agreed to pay the owner a company called shen jen new world 154 a night for every room

in the building meals included not per person for room whether anyone was in it or not at one point only 24 percent of the rooms were occupied okay so let's stop and do the numbers together they were paying $600 a night regardless. Okay, 365 days, obviously 365 nights. Okay, what does that come out to be? It comes out to being $219,000 in one year for one room. So the question is, how many rooms are in this hotel? Well, according to Google, 481. So multiply 219,000 by 481 rooms. You get $105 million. But wait. as you just heard in that report, only 24% of the rooms were actually occupied, which means 25 million should have been the actual budget. But see, this is what happens with politicians. They over promise, under-deliver, and then when it comes to the money, it's nothing but fraud,

waste, and abuse. The city was paying over $600 a night per person actually housed. 14 rooms were taken offline for fire damage. A school in the same building sued the city after documenting break-ins drug paraphernalia and human waste outside their entrance. The city set aside $5 million just for glass repair. The owner is a Chinese billionaire named Wei Huang, $100 million to one company. He fled to China in 2018 after the FBI started investigating. The city signed the lease for the building two years later. All right, guys, if you're still watching the video up to this point, please, if you're enjoying my channel, subscribe now. Hit that like button and share the show with your family and friends.

Let me know your thoughts so far in the comment section. All of this type of engagement will help us grow the channel even more and show this video to more people like you and me. So like I said, begs the question, what does the mayor have to say about all this? So of course, she knows she has to respond. And just for added context, in case you guys are wondering why this story is so important,

is because every year there is a homelessness report that is published by the agency who's in charge of tracking the numbers. and they have delayed the release of this report because they know how damaging it is. It should have been released in the first week or second week of July. Well, we're past that, and they have acknowledged that there is a delay here. And again, I wonder why that is. But, okay, according to the mayor, here's what she had to say. No, Angelino should be sleeping on our streets.

That's why we've changed how L.A. responds to homelessness. On day one, I declared a state of emergency. We started Inside Safe to get people off the streets as soon as possible. We're continuing to build housing at a scale this crisis demands, and at a scale our city has never seen before. Nearly 47,000 affordable housing units are moving forward. 47,000 affordable housing units are moving forward in order to house people who are homeless. My question is, why not build 47,000 housing units for regular people,

so prices could come down, but, you know, that's a whole other topic. I've told you guys what my personal position on homelessness is, just so, you know, I'm not just a complainer. I do have at least an idea of what I would do if I was in charge, which is I would purchase a certain part of land outside of the city, but still within my jurisdiction, and I would build essentially a neighborhood or community that is designed for people who are homeless. that way when we find them downtown or they're on the beach or they're in front of a school, they're picked up in a humane way, by the way, okay, I don't know people don't like it. And we put them over there in that community and they get the health care, they get the mental health

specialist, they get the food, rehab, all of these things. And one or two things are going to happen. One, someone will be rehabilitated and they can either go back into the city and live on their own or two, they're not going to be rehabilitated. but they'll stay there. And I'd rather have that take place and spend $100 million doing that than what's been happening up to this point. But that's just me. And Spencer Pratt nailed it during that debate between him, Karen Bass, and Consulwoman Rahman. Let's go back and listen to this. Watch. Inside Safe, I like to say, Insight Safe makes all of us outside unsafe. The reality is,

no matter how many beds you give these people, they are on super meth. They are on fentanyl. The DEA statistics says 93% of this is a drug addiction problem. Nithia Councilwoman Robbins plan for treatment first. I will go below the Harbor Freeway tomorrow with her and we can find some of these people

she's going to offer treatment for her. She's going to get stabbed in the neck. These people do not want a bed. They want fentanyl or super meth. These ideas cost us over $400 million to house, for 70, what did you say? 3,000 people for 400 million is an absolute failure for both of them. They're a team.

They're absolutely a team. And the agencies and the NGOs and the nonprofits, they're all basically a team. They are essentially in cahoots with each other. And there can be disagreements, by the way. I'm not saying they all agree on the same thing here. But there's no doubt that they're all complicit in the failure to get homelessness in control inside Los Angeles County. So I guess, in my opinion, just to back up my statement,

let's go back to the agency who is responsible for counting the numbers and why are they delaying the report? Well, let's hear it for ourselves. Christine, these numbers were supposed to be released in late spring or early summer, but so far the wait continues. Thousands of volunteers, three nights, one massive task. Count the number of homeless people across L. Now almost six months later, the results are still not public.

When are we expecting those numbers to come in? You will have to contact Lhasa, but I believe it's very soon. So I'm anxious for them too. We did contact Lhasa. Their response, they expect to release the results soon. But their own website says the numbers should have come out in late spring or early summer, meaning right now L.A. County still doesn't know how many people were counted back in January. So get this, an agency that is receiving millions of dollars.

And their sole purpose in life is to count how many people are homeless, how many people are no longer homeless, how many people are new to being homeless, can't even release the report on time. But they're getting the money still, by the way. This is the incompetence, obviously, of not only government, but also the companies they decide to partner with. And the unfortunate part is they do the easy thing, which is to blame the federal government for why they can't get the job done. So the person in charge of this agency, here's what she said. And last month, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development suspended loss up from federal funding, citing a record of fraud, failure, and flagrant mismanagement, and saying it abused hundreds of millions of tax dollars. After last year's audit, how do you respond to people that maybe feel like those budget cuts are justified?

Right. Well, we have an interim internal audit committee now at law, so we are really trying to be good stewards of people's money. That's the problem with human behavior. When it's not your money, you won't treat the money in the same way you would if it was yours. That's just a reality, okay? No one's going to treat your career, your relationships, your money the way that you would, okay? and that's the unfortunate part about when we have to fork over our tax dollars to elected representatives, which is why accountability should not be something that we have to negotiate over. It should be something that is mandatory. And when you fail, you should be held accountable. Now, unfortunately, the way we do that is through elections,

and I think me and you both know what's wrong with elections, particularly in what happened with the Los Angeles mayoral race, but I'll leave it there. Guys, share your thoughts below about this damning, report, what the mayor had to say ultimately, which is essentially nothing, and that the agency responsible for counting these numbers hasn't even released the report. But sources are already blowing the whistle, exposing that the numbers are just where they've always been, an all-time high. Share the show with your family and friends. Make sure you're subscribed to the channel.

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