Posted on 04/18/2023 3:12:49 AM PDT by Morgana
Residents of an upscale enclave of Los Angeles are complaining after a homeless encampment mushroomed in the last few days on the border of Beverly Hills - with one of the tent-dwellers saying they were told to move there by police.
The tents and people arrived on San Vicente Boulevard in Beverly Grove, setting up a camp to the anger of locals.
'They're fighting at all hours of the day. They're doing drugs. They're selling drugs. It's out of control,' said one Beverly Grove resident, speaking to KTLA.
'We pay so much in property tax and so much in income tax, it is not fair for us to live like this.'
Yet James Boss, who has been homeless for over a decade, told the network that he and others were told to move there.
'They told us to come over here,' he said. 'The (sheriff's department) and the police department told us to come over this way because they were going to offer us housing.'
LAPD would not comment when asked whether they asked the homeless population to move to that spot.
Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, has launched a program, Inside Safe, which aims to clear homeless encampments. It is designed to move those currently homeless into permanent housing.
The most recent survey conducted by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority found approximately 69,000 people experiencing homelessness in LA County, and 41,000 in the city in 2022.
About half the homeless population of the city struggles with drug or alcohol addiction, and about a third have serious mental illnesses. Homeless deaths average five a day.
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Apparently the mental hospital special interest group is not greasing the right palms to get the places in business again. Maybe when the global temperature people and the EV/ Green Energy investors run out of causes, they can swing back to mental hospitals and everybody will be happy about that until the next special interest group is not happy about it.
It's the circle of special interest profits, Simba.
Good. I encourage more homeless to move to Beverly Hills.
Swimmin’ pools, movie stars, drug addicts!
Yeah, I have brought this up, but leftists just chant Reagan's name over and over with their fingers in their ears.
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