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Glock: Cities building homes for every unsheltered person saw homelessness increase
“And yeah, San Francisco, Arizona, these other states and cities, they built enough homes for every single unsheltered homeless person in the street. 1015 years later, they have more homeless people in the streets.”
Glock: National Academy of Sciences found Housing First fails to improve health
“You know, as I often cite, the National Academy of Science said, there's no evidence that these housing first units improve the health of the homeless.”
Glock: 70% to 80% of Americans oppose unconditional free housing without sobriety mandates
“When you tell average Americans about this, we do the polls, do you think, ah, you know, basically free homes should be given out with no sobriety or mental health treatments to people on the street? Overwhelming. 70, 80% of people say, of course not. Again, a…”
Glock: CA Supreme Court blocked UC Berkeley student enrollment increases under CEQA
“The Berkeley ruling of the California Supreme court where they said you couldn't increase even the number of students at the university of Berkeley. Because of this California lawsuit system where you're allowed to sue just about anything.”
Glock: California Cities Are Exceptionally Dense Yet Suffer Far Higher Housing Prices
“California has
Actually, exceptionally dense cities.
They have cities about 7008 thousand people per square mile, which is very high relative to the rest of the U.S., which is more like three to 4000 people per square mile.
and yet it has housing prices that …”
Glock: 40% of Land in Nine-County Bay Area Is Reserved for Cattle
“The 40% of that land in that nine county Bay Area is reserved for cattle.”
Glock: Skid Row camping enforcement cut crime and violence by 40%
“A study done right afterwards showed that crime and violence in the area, mainly against the homeless themselves, went down 40%, and it didn't seem to spill over to these other neighborhoods.”
Glock: LA and SF audits show subsidized housing costs reach $800K per unit
“They recently did an audit in LA and in San Francisco that found these things cost about 700 dollars per square foot and around 800,000 dollars maxed out per apartment.”
Glock: Roughly 40% of subsidized housing spending goes to soft costs
“About 40% of this money went to what's called soft costs in the construction industry. This is the paperwork, the financing, all these other little things in it.”
Glock: Tall Buildings Produce More Carbon Emissions Than Shorter Wooden Ones
“In fact, tall buildings tend to have more CO₂ emissions than short ones. They have to use concrete and steel. That requires a lot more energy intensive use than using wood, which is a carbon sink.”
Glock: Austin saw 40-50% unsheltered homeless spike after camping ban repeal
“What you saw in Austin was in 2019, the city council turned back a previous ban on street camping. They repealed the law that said it was illegal to camp and sleep on the streets. And what you saw was pretty surprising and pretty rapid. You had, About a 40 to …”
Glock: Sheltered homelessness dropped 20% after Austin repealed camping ban
“One of the surprising things we saw there, and we've seen this elsewhere, Is the amount of sheltered homelessness went down by about 20%.”
Judge Glock: Camping bans overwhelmingly passed in liberal cities like Austin and Denver
“When cities like Austin or San Francisco or Denver voted on, say, camping bans, overwhelmingly passed in some of these most liberal cities in America.”
Glock: Community First and Salvation Army Rehab Reject Federal Funding Over Mandates
“Groups like Community First and the Salvation Army basic for, you know, at least for their rehab stuff, basically take no federal funds because they just can't deal with all these mandates.”
Glock: Miami-Dade mental health court is a leading national model
“The Miami-Dade mental health court is one of the sort of pillars of the nation where they follow up people, make sure you're taking your pills, make sure you're taking treatment.”
Glock: Prop 13 Failed 2-to-1 in 1972 Before Passing 2-to-1 in 1978
“Originally Prop. 13 the goal was proposed by Howard Jarvis and others with the goal of limiting property taxes, and it failed in 1972 by about a two-to-one vote. Overwhelming rejection of Prop. 13. People of course had problems with local property taxes, but t…”
Glock: US municipal governments raise 20% of all government revenue
“We have about 20,000 municipal governments in, in America, and they raise about 20% of all government revenue.”
Glock: Low Housing Costs Drove California's Mid-Century Boom Over New York
“California was the fastest growing state in the nation for decades and surpassed New York as the single largest state in the country in around 1960. And it was a very welcoming environment for builders. The, one of the main reasons people moved over there is b…”