The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (09/27) - Vacant Homeless Housing
The John Kobylt Show
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4.3 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Chris LeGras comes on the show to talk about how 70% of the Project Homekey rooms are currently vacant. More on NYC Mayor Eric Adams being indicted on federal bribery and fraud charges. Alex Stone comes on the show to talk about Boeing resuming talks with striking workers as well as the latest warning Boeing issued for their aircrafts. More on the border crisis.
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| 0:00.0 | KFI a.m. 640. You're listening to the John Cobalt podcast on the Iheart Radio app. |
| 0:06.4 | Welcome. We've got the second hour going here. We're on every day from one until four. |
| 0:12.5 | And if you miss stuff, you listen to the John Cobalt show On Demand podcast. It gets posted after 4 o'clock. |
| 0:20.2 | And that's where you can pick up whatever |
| 0:21.7 | you missed. Next hour, two rounds of the moist line, hacking a dumpster. Got a lot to do in the next |
| 0:28.6 | two hours. And we're going to start with, we're going to talk to Chris LaGraugh. He's a writer and |
| 0:34.3 | an activist. And he co-wrote a story in the West Side Current, which, you know, |
| 0:40.8 | I had to read like several times to just digest the horror of it all. |
| 0:45.7 | I tell you the homeless and housing programs in L.A. City and County, it is just a massive scam, |
| 0:53.4 | a racket. It's really a criminal enterprise. They suck up hundreds of millions, billions of dollars, and no good comes of it. |
| 1:03.2 | In this particular story looks at $550 million spent. And they were used as the money was used for Project Home Key to buy up buildings for the homeless. |
| 1:16.5 | And they bought 32 buildings. |
| 1:19.3 | And Chris LaGraugh and his team visited 31 of the 32 buildings and found out of 2,100 units plus over 1,500 are sitting empty. |
| 1:33.4 | After spending the half billion, why are 1,500 units sitting empty? |
| 1:39.6 | Well, we're going to talk to Chris. It's quite a story. |
| 1:42.4 | Chris LaGrobe, welcome again. How are you? Hey, John. How are you? Good to talk to Chris. It's quite a story. Chris LaGraugh. Welcome again. How are you? |
| 1:45.5 | Hey, John. How are you? Good to talk to you. |
| 1:50.0 | Explain where this money originally went. They bought, the county bought a lot of old buildings, motels, things of that nature. |
| 1:58.6 | Well, so you've covered half the story. Between the city and the county, |
| 2:04.8 | they actually spent $1.4 billion. And that was money that came through the Care Act, which was the |
| 2:12.2 | COVID emergency relief fund. And between the city and the county, they bought 70 buildings. And they spent |
| 2:22.1 | $1.4 billion on those 70 buildings. And we visited all but two of them. And we discovered that |
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