The City of Angels when a civilized people still ran it.
Posted on 03/04/2018 3:35:50 AM PST by sodpoodle
The 2017 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count tallied 4,545 campers and RVs in L.A. County that possibly serve as makeshift dwellings. In short, one of America's least affordable housing market forces people to find creative alternatives for shelter.
I happened upon the situation about a year ago, trying to find a shortcut on my commute home. I exited the jammed 110 Freeway in South L.A., turning onto Broadway to a landscape dominated by warehouses and light industry. At 133rd Street, I noticed numerous motor homes, most in a state of disrepair, lining both sides of the road.
I found similar encampments in Manchester Square, a once-thriving neighborhood just east of LAX being converted into a transportation hub for the airport. In a surreal scene, scores of homeless people scratched out an existence beneath the endless string of jetliners landing at the airport.
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Many are there of their own choosing. Years ago I tried to help the homeless. No good deed goes unpunished. The housing crunch in urban areas is a significant problem for which there is no good solution. As far as LA goes the prices will be collapsing soon but probably not to sane levels.
There is this same beat up Winnebago that makes the round of Walmart parking lots around here. They move everyday so they are not hassled.
The City of Angels when a civilized people still ran it.
Buy them all one way tickets to Hawaii.
How would I solve this particular problem?
I’d give each of those RV owners a map with the location of RV camps on highways outside LA and say “Hey you know there are jobs in Montana, Kansas and other places where you could afford to live.
Is that harsh? Maybe but I don’t think so.
Many chose to live exactly how they are living and just want to be left alone. My brother moved to California from MD because of the generous welfare programs from the state. He raised three sons in a free 3 bedroom apt in Northern California. Now all 3 are enrolled in free college.if you build it they will come.
Whatsa matta wit' Guam?
It’s in serious danger of tipping over any minute now.
Hank Johnson told me so.
All those junker motor homes at the other end would provide some balance for the Friends of Hank.
If they can DRIVE to Guam then great. That would be some motorhome.
You can’t even fly directly here from most of the US and it takes a passport to get on the plane.
But what is wrong with reminding people that if you can’t live in place X, there are other places that you can because they are less expensive?
Getting people out of the welfare system is a good thing. I think that unlike sheltered limousine leftist, many working-class people could be converted to a conservative position if they saw any options in their life.
Just the fact that that they in a motorhome means they are not using section 8 housing benefits. That indicates some sense of self-reliance.
My daughter and her husband solved it very easily. I saw a Detroit auto worker in an RV park in Washington state that solved the same problem (in his case, it was Detroit, about 30 years ago). His solution was the same as theirs:
They moved. He moved to washington state and became a mechanic. They are both accountants. They moved to the Phoenix area for the same pay as Burbank, where they first lived, and enjoy a beautiful home that cost less than a fifth of what it would have been in California.
The producers leave. So do the good politicians. California will continue to become more and more of a cesspool - with oases of beauty - until it’s utter collapse. The question will be, will the feds bail them out?
As a citizen, I am in charge. They should move where the opportunities are.
That picture reminded me of my commute from Renton to Bellevue on I-405 back in 1976. There was no real traffic and cops patrolled it for speeders DURING RUSH HOUR.
That’s unconscionable now.
And what is most comical is that back then it was two lanes in each direction. Now, 40 years later after 40 years of massive growth, it’s 2 lanes with an HOV lane. It didn’t have to be this way, but you get what you vote for...
Which is exactly what I did.
Guam has to be a hell of a lot cheaper to live in than California.
Maybe you can organize a boatlift. Maybe you could talk the new recruits into leaving behind the motor homes and living in the boats, once they get to your house.
ATTENTION: Fai Mao in Guam is lonely, has plenty of time on his hands and lots of good ideas, and is eager to welcome the street-dwellers of California to his home, his table, his spare room, his shitter that presumably (unlike the ones in the motor homes) actually works.
CALL HIM TODAY!
“I’d give each of those RV owners a map with the location of RV camps on highways outside LA and say “Hey you know there are jobs in Montana, Kansas and other places where you could afford to live.”
That is sooooo wrong! It’s like shedding the lice off of an infected dog and giving them to a perfectly healthy animal.
What I’m about to say is also wrong, and I am in no way suggesting it. But this reminds me of a TV special a few years back where some South American country had a secret police force that went around whacking homeless children.
The homeless, the illegals and other lower classes of dem voters are but useful idiots to the leftist cause. If the lefties ever gain full control, I have a feeling they too will purge this class of people as they will no longer be useful. They will wind up similar to the unwanted of the Stalin, Hitler and Mao era.
I call BS on this article.
This count is BS. I bet there are ten times that many AT LEAST with people living in the LA basin. I drove up Highway 1 all along the coast about a year ago and I saw all sorts of RVs being used as principle dwellings.
There are all sorts of little subdivisions that are set up to rent tiny plots to people living in along the coast. I bet there are 10,000 between Monterey and Pacifica. Between these and the Barrio, there are all sorts of spaces where California stuffs its second class citizens, white, asian, hispanic and black.
These are street people profiled in the article. Drugs, booze, dysfunction, dementia, health issues, families who have cut off ties. They're unemployable. The motor homes they live in don't run. They're not going anywhere.
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