The Los Angeles Homeless Containment Thread (Blythe: apartment, houses, buying)

[jm1982]

It's really unfortunate this is only being done because of the terrible Skirball fire but it's good they are finally working to remove these encampments that should of never been there .

As mentioned in article below residents living near these encampments have been complaining about them a long time.

No encampments should be tolerated anywhere in the city .

Would be great to have some common sense people running the place .
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In the wake of December’s Skirball fire, which was believed to have been started in a homeless encampment, the Los Angeles Fire Department has assembled a list of 76 brush-heavy hillside areas where there may be encampments that pose a high fire risk.

A task force of city and county officials was formed in January to work on removing such encampments, with priority being given to regions with the highest fire danger.


The recent blazes put the spotlight on the presence of homeless encampments in brush areas and the fire risks they pose, something many nearby residents have long been aware of and have complained about to city leaders.

https://www.dailynews.com/2018/02/07...officials-say/

[BlinkingBlythe]

Originally Posted by jm1982

It's really unfortunate this is only being done because of the terrible Skirball fire but it's good they are finally working to remove these encampments that should of never been there .

As mentioned in article below residents living near these encampments have been complaining about them a long time.

No encampments should be tolerated anywhere in the city .

Would be great to have some common sense people running the place .
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In the wake of December’s Skirball fire, which was believed to have been started in a homeless encampment, the Los Angeles Fire Department has assembled a list of 76 brush-heavy hillside areas where there may be encampments that pose a high fire risk.

A task force of city and county officials was formed in January to work on removing such encampments, with priority being given to regions with the highest fire danger.


The recent blazes put the spotlight on the presence of homeless encampments in brush areas and the fire risks they pose, something many nearby residents have long been aware of and have complained about to city leaders.

https://www.dailynews.com/2018/02/07...officials-say/

Maybe if the city and the shelters stopped playing games, stopped stealing funds meant to help the homeless and using it to build "committees" and pocketing it (what happened to that 1 billion dollars the city got last year to "fix" this? I saw no changes!), re-opened New Image as a year round drop in shelter, and maybe drop the snotty, apathetic attitudes, the problem would not be nearly as bad as it is now.

Yes, they are clearing encampments. They want a ____ing medal or something? But because they didn't try to tackle the ROOT causes of homelessness, they will be back, or they will just set up elsewhere in the city. They are just rearranging the chairs here folks.

[jm1982]

Originally Posted by BlinkingBlythe

Maybe if the city and the shelters stopped playing games, stopped stealing funds meant to help the homeless and using it to build "committees" and pocketing it (what happened to that 1 billion dollars the city got last year to "fix" this? I saw no changes!), re-opened New Image as a year round drop in shelter, and maybe drop the snotty, apathetic attitudes, the problem would not be nearly as bad as it is now.

Yes, they are clearing encampments. They want a ____ing medal or something? But because they didn't try to tackle the ROOT causes of homelessness, they will be back, or they will just set up elsewhere in the city. They are just rearranging the chairs here folks.

It almost seems like the more billions raised for homelessness " the worse it gets right ?

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by BlinkingBlythe

what happened to that 1 billion dollars the city got last year to "fix" this? I saw no changes!

Prop HHH (the 1.2 billion bond measure) passed in November. The funds are now starting to be used.

In the decades following World War II, when the suburbs were young and the car was king, Los Angeles went on a land-buying spree.

The city bought parcels in every size and shape, demolished any buildings on them and opened parking lots to serve emerging commercial districts.

By the 1970s the buying had mostly stopped, and today these 119 public lots blend into the urban quilt all but indistinguishable from their free-market competitors.

But now the city is cultivating plans that could transform much of that land again, this time from asphalt to multistory apartment buildings to house chronically homeless people.

A plan to house L.A.'s homeless residents could transform parking lots across the city

[cwarmy]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

Prop HHH (the 1.2 billion bond measure) passed in November. The funds are now starting to be used.

In the decades following World War II, when the suburbs were young and the car was king, Los Angeles went on a land-buying spree.

The city bought parcels in every size and shape, demolished any buildings on them and opened parking lots to serve emerging commercial districts.

By the 1970s the buying had mostly stopped, and today these 119 public lots blend into the urban quilt all but indistinguishable from their free-market competitors.

But now the city is cultivating plans that could transform much of that land again, this time from asphalt to multistory apartment buildings to house chronically homeless people.

A plan to house L.A.'s homeless residents could transform parking lots across the city

L.A. is setting itself up to be the #1 homeless destination in the country.

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by cwarmy

L.A. is setting itself up to be the #1 homeless destination in the country.

Interesting that in New York City (which has a larger homeless population than Los Angeles), 95% of its homeless are sheltered, whereas it's 25% of our homeless population. We're obviously doing something wrong.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/l...462449073.html

[CALGUY]

BUILD THE CAMPS!
BUILD THE CAMPS!
BUILD THE CAMPS!


Bob.

[Podo944]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

Prop HHH (the 1.2 billion bond measure) passed in November. The funds are now starting to be used.

In the decades following World War II, when the suburbs were young and the car was king, Los Angeles went on a land-buying spree.

The city bought parcels in every size and shape, demolished any buildings on them and opened parking lots to serve emerging commercial districts.

By the 1970s the buying had mostly stopped, and today these 119 public lots blend into the urban quilt all but indistinguishable from their free-market competitors.

But now the city is cultivating plans that could transform much of that land again, this time from asphalt to multistory apartment buildings to house chronically homeless people.

A plan to house L.A.'s homeless residents could transform parking lots across the city

"If you build it they will come"

And they will stay.

[Podo944]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

Interesting that in New York City (which has a larger homeless population than Los Angeles), 95% of its homeless are sheltered, whereas it's 25% of our homeless population. We're obviously doing something wrong.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/l...462449073.html

I would think shelters or some kind of lodging is necessary because of winter. I mean you can't have people freezing to death. California has perfect weather for sleeping outside.

My friends and I had backyard forts and... hmmm... suddenly thinking of tree houses.

[seain dublin]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

Interesting that in New York City (which has a larger homeless population than Los Angeles), 95% of its homeless are sheltered, whereas it's 25% of our homeless population. We're obviously doing something wrong.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/l...462449073.html

Because you can sleep outside here and not freeze to death or get buried alive by snow.

Originally Posted by CALGUY

BUILD THE CAMPS!
BUILD THE CAMPS!
BUILD THE CAMPS!


Bob.

Calm down Adolph.

We're not quite a police state yet, where you can just cart people off like Nazi Germany.