A homeless encampment in Hollywood is growing, with tents and trash lining the block near Selma Park. Neighbors are outraged and say nothing is being done about it. Full story: abc7.com/hollywood-homeless-e...
@@josefmengele181 As in contrast to you. I have no idea what you're referring to, nor do I care (good job Mr. Floyd?) I think you need a hobby or a job.😂
@@barbarafreeman169 my job is making you slaves know your place tell me when did you make a first world country or even a invention that mankind uses no rap music doesn't count
The answer is build affordable housing and lockaway the MH Who are threats to public safety .but the ACLU won't let you do that nor progressives. In their eyes the homeless are all victims .Stoopid ideology
@@elliotjones3098 it keeps getting more and more expensive which leads to more and more people unable to afford housing which leads to more homelessness. It's not rocket science. Cost of living is directly proportional to homelessness which is why over the past 50 years homelessness has also risen.
They need that ADA lawyer in Portland. He got the city to remove the homeless from his client's area because it was blocking people with disabilities from accessing the sidewalk...a clear violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
I have a disabled child at that school and have personally brought up the ADA violations with video showing the inability of a wheelchair to pass, directly with the homeless coordinator and supervisor in this city council district. They will take on a lawsuit willingly and still not change it.
I see this over and over but I’m really just curious what would a republican legislature do? How would they fix this problem? Literally every time I ask this no one answers with a clear and concise answer
@@chiarosuburekeni9325this problem wasn't happening when Trump was President. They didn't even want him coming to skid row, they told him they had everything under control🤦🤦🤦🤦
@@chiarosuburekeni9325 Ask Ronald Reagan. He was once governor of CA. You could take your family to breakfast in the Tenderloin. Blue policies are like believing in Unicorns while being ripped off. Eventually they start taking effect and here we are.
But the problem is growing and no solutions by DEMOCRATS who run these cities!!! They keep pandering to the minorities about racism and police brutality. They de-criminalize crimes while at the same time tell others they are not allowed to defend themselves or their cities. Look at the viral country song "not in a small town"... that song talks about how people in a small town defend themselves against riots and violence to protect their neighbors... but democrats call that song "racist"! What happened to the democratic party? It seems they are out to destroy the country!
Hollywood to help? Because there are a high percentage of people that are affluent there! But all they can spend their money on is bigger houses, fancier cars, plastic surgery, maid, cooks ,and vacations
@@josephkelly9036 NOT TRUE! Despite the problems, there are still Californians moving up here IN DROVES with their pockets STUFFED with cash! (Sell L.A. house for $2.8 million, buy Seattle home for $1.2 million……..to them, homes are still cheap in Seattle).
Not just California, it's in every major city all the way up into Canada. Unprecedented eviction rates due to covid and job loss on top of a fentanyl/opioid use spike recently made worse by the introduction of tranq... Buckle up, it's likely to get worse.
It’s a shame that you have groups of homeless people causing problems for those who aren’t homeless. It’s also a shame that groups are made to fight each other, while those in power get more wealthy.
@@Lone432345 maybe they should figure out a way to take some personal responsibility ? Remember that concept, before all of this dumb wokeness came to town ?
People voted for Hugo Soto-Martínez, who said he wasn't going to push people out during his campaign. At least Mitch O'Farrell tried to keep the area safe! yet people voted him out! Hugo isn't going to do anything. I say recall him!
I'll never understand why people voted out Mitch O'Farrell. He was doing a good job balancing the needs of homeless and residents. But because he wasn't an extremist at either end, he's ousted?
@@WestOfEarth Hugo Soto-Martínez took advantage of the Echo Park situation when Mitch O'Farrell removed the homeless encampment. Over 250 people were living in the park. Hugo had his team go and record what took place at night during the removal and he demonized Mitch O'Farrell for putting up a fence around the park. When I questioned Hugo via Twitter about his overall policy and agenda I was blocked. He is trying to be the AOC of District 13 but even AOC is rational. Mitch O'Farrell was ousted due to low turn out and Hugo got the 18-25 demo vote. Hugo needs to be recalled.
The problem is just growing in California. I was in santa cruz during the obamy era, the trump era and the distaster of obiden era...their was DEFINITELY a difference in the years. I left last year...obiden with big mikes directions have made it unrepairable.
There needs to be designated areas in every big city to the tiniest town across America or just California for homeless to be able to use a toilet, shower and sleep(shelter and food not included). So that if you are homeless you have no excuse that you have no place to go besides the sidewalks. Then no one will have a right to just build an encampment on public sidewalks, or just anywhere they choose and endanger others including themselves.
@@tamrix most of these people could not work a job if you gave them one. But what's worse is that the DON"T WANT to work, nor do they want housing. With housing come rules unless you are going to give them a 24/7 maid service and food delivery. They want no responsibility, live where ever they want and do whatever they want.
@@bigdog2618 Razor wire and guard dogs sound good to me. Homeless people destroy every area they camp in and eradicate whatever local goodwill there was.
@@Lone432345 What does Finland have to do with the US? Completely different societies, different thinking. For one thing, Finland doesn't have all the racial issues and undereducated lower class that we have.
I recommend that if you live in Hollywood, move out! If tens of thousands move away, the city will lose revenue and they just might do something about the homeless. Or maybe not, but at least you got out of there.
How is Hollywood going to lose revenue? The only people that would move out is the ones that aren't rich affluent and got money to pay for whatever they want
Well you see with all the money being poured into homeless programs these people were magically supposed to get off drugs or get mental health help, get completely healed, develope a work ethic, become functional/contributing members of the community and have a home inside of a month! Liberals live in fantasy land.
This is why I voted for Caruso and not Bass. Bass had no idea how bad the issue of homelessness was in LA...she even admitted it AFTER she was elected. A clear sign she wasn't in touch with LA. Nice backtrack though. At least Rick Caruso KNEW the issues and the challenges.
@@MichaelGilmoreTV This isn't about me. I voted for my fellow homeless brothers and sisters so they could find shelter, and this isn't happening at the pace it needs to. People are dying on the streets. But you don't seem to care about that.
@@WestOfEarth Actually, if you would have peruse my profile, you will see that I’m homeless (living in my Mercedes of course). I run a proptech, fintech and non-profit in Beverly Hills. I’m on Skid Row EVERYDAY! I shower on Skid Row EVERYDAY! I have lived in tiny homes. I see, witness and experienced what the homeless go through. As a matter of fact, there is hardly 1% of African Americans in the provider service yet over 80% are homeless and living on the streets. Moving from Atlanta to Los Angeles was another culture shock. These damn Hispanics, Latinos and Mexicans don’t give a damn about Black homeless folks! They reap the financial benefits of so called service providers yet provide limited services then they looked down on the homeless. I laughed at their asses because I’m more educated (degrees wise) than all of them. Los Angeles just ELECTED its FIRST woman mayor out of its 400 year history! She’s doing somewhat great although not at the pace YOU and others expect. The homeless thesis is complex and it will take complex answers to solve. I’m working on a $10 Million, 84 unit Build-to-Rent, which I decided to accept Section 8 Vouchers for the “working homeless.” I plan to build a shelter/mission later dedicated to Black men, who need greater mental, spiritual, emotional, educational and financial resources, services and support. I’m really in the trenches. I’m living it 💯🙏🏿📚💰🏠🏳️🌈.
Give them trash services and stop abusing them!!!! Also I’m tired of seeing kids alone on the street I feel like a parent abandoned them and will begin calling the cops if I see abandoned children!
The same parents that say they are worried about their children walking on the street next to the encampments, are the same ones that are still laying up in their bed with their little sleep mask on and cucumbers instead of getting up fixing the children breakfast getting them ready into the vehicle and taking them to school
I don't even live there and my compassion is exhausted for the "people experiencing homelessness." When people who had made the investment and commitment by buying property in the neighborhood have to take a back seat to those who will turn the area into a drug infested Shanty town there is a dangerous imbalance. To wait until the homeless are afforded free housing is the same as saying "we have no interest in doing anything and will wait the situation out." Criminal.
Do you honestly believe that the only reason someone is homeless is because they are a criminal or do drugs or have mental illness? Do you not realize that there are some people that are homeless that at one time had made the investment and commitment to buying property and a neighborhood and something happened to drastically decrease their ability to maintain that lifestyle?I'm pretty sure you're not too many weeks from being in the same situation as they are
@@words.Of.Truth. I do appreciate that people fall on hard times and find themselves without a home. I also appreciate the challenges home owners face when their neighborhoods are no longer safe. I found the image of children having to walk to school amongst needles and human excrement upsetting.
"I'm pretty sure you're not too many weeks from being in the same situation as they are" It's probally more precarious than that. if you live in that area, most likely you don't own where you live. Your landlord could decide to zip and flip you out and rent to someone else who has much more money than you. You are dependent on someone else and their thoughtwaves when you rent. landLORD, remember? And when it's boogie woogie, let the good times roll again, your rent will skyrocket. Just ask all the renters who got pushed out of their apartments in San Francisco during the dotcom craze of the late 1990s/early 2000s.
Hopefuly walking through that everyday will motivate the kids into understanding why late stage capitalism is bad for America and will ultimately destroy it. Do you really think this problem started with "the Democrats"? Get real. "the Democrats" have become the popular scapegoat for the kind of rot that started long ago and that people in both parties as well as the greedy barons and real estate moguls are responsible for.
Since the numbers are getting bigger and bigger you’re not going to fix this without clearing out the encampments. Services don’t help appreciably and there will never be enough “you can do drugs here” housing. Sobriety is difficult before you are at this point so you have to disconnect users from the drug supply not enable the clustering we’re seeing now.
"Sobriety is difficult before you are at this point so you have to disconnect users from the drug supply not enable the clustering we’re seeing now" This will require them to be locked inside a building, an "institution" if you will, where the enviroment is highly structured and there are strict rules, so they don't have access to drugs and alcohol, and they have to accept treatment for their mental illnesses. But we decided 40 or so years ago that this was inhumane, so we shut those places down and turned them loose on the streets. We also told cities that they should provide mental health services but that they didn't actually have to. And thus the situation today.
Where did they all come from you ask. Wonder why they're all jobless, and thus, homeless? Okay; here's my take: The "smart" people created machines that replaced the "not-so-smart" people.
How long will it take for city officials to realize that many of these homeless are simply living out there to do drugs. Many will refuse services so more services is not the only answer. Some people need to go to jail in order to even begin getting clean. They are unable to take care of themselves let alone their campsite out on the sidewalk. Its for their own good
Just as many are living there because of situations they kind of help. That has nothing to do with drinking or alcohol or mental illness you judgmental fool
Where is the mayor of los angeles karen bass HIDING? she promised people she WAS going to take care of the homeless situation in la. I guess she proved that she is a USELESS at that position. she is not fit for that role. recall her.
shame cause i sent mayor Karen Bass a relocation to outside the LA forest/ self sustaining garden community plus Farmers Market / Cob home building plane last spring very cost effective ... last spring ....too bad i have street outreach experience, 11 years clean (arthritis - so a need to move to a warmer climate- i'd definitely want to live my own dream ) & a desire to go to local meetings with Danny T
Just provide housing first and with no limitations or restrictions. Use abandoned places and commandeer them for housing projects. Only way to defeat this problem
Why other countries have less crime than America and less homelessness? Easy: the death sentence and harsher laws that scares other people to not commit crimes.
It's their own fault. The LA homeless budget is only $1.3 BILLION this year, which is just 10% of the entire city budget. Clearly more money is needed and these people in Hollywood must make voluntary payments to the city so they can fix the problem!
Just clear it all out. No living on the street period. They want to live like that ship them all out to the desert set up a giant refugee camp like in the ME. The ones that want off the street get mandatory placement in shelter with rules.
That's exactly what needs to happen. There are too many weak, coddling, enabling people to make it not happen though. We should be able to the ones who support this with them.
Interesting thought. Yes, many folks in this Era, would benefit from the creation of 21st Century Concentration Camps.. Is that correct ?? Is that perhaps, what You are suggesting..? I certainly do not hope so........😢
The US pays one of the highest taxes in the world, yet people have no services. It seems none of the money we pay in taxes comes to benefit us, the payers. Look at a place like Spain, for instance. They pay lower taxes there, and everyone is well taken care of. They have free health care, no crime, no homeless crisis, and people generally appear happy.
Maybe the Hollywood residents should be asking public officials what they are doing to help these people , instead of asking , when are you going to get them out of here . Remember anyone can become homeless . They are not sleeping in the street because it is a comfortable location , and they want to get a better tan .When you see them remember this could be you . Give that some thought before you pass judgement .
You could probably renovate and establish homeless shelters in the many empty military barracks in the area for a couple of million. Make it a Federal program instead of draining taxpayers" needed money for other projects. The Federal program would completely remove the homeless encampments off the streets of Los Angeles. Clothing, Food, Shelter, medical, mental and job training would be provided. A city bus service would be set up to allow the homeless to come and go from the barracks but it would be with the caveat that if they are found living on the streets again they would be transported back to the barracks. Can anyone tell me why this would not work. Does anyone have the initiative to take this on. I am 72 yrs old with an idea.
That's the problem, they did vote and their city councilman is more concerned about the safety, health and welfare of the parasite class than they are the people who pay the bills.
