The City of Angels when a civilized people still ran it.
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.
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.
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?
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.
How are you homeless if you own an RV?
I see this in NYC. Motor homes so moldy and decrepit that it’s hard to believe the engines run, parked here and there around the city.
Homeless here in Tampa are the results of themselves. One guy had his ‘wife’and ‘kids’ with him with a sign saying ‘Homeless Family. Please Help. ‘ so I asked if he needed a job. He Saudi, thanks.
Solution?
One way bus ticket to Portland, Oregon.
Sorry, I'm on a cheap phone. My phone fell 3 stories. This is an old phone.
“RVs in L.A. County that possibly serve as makeshift dwellings.”
So... RVs.
If you have a motorhome you are not homeless
A generation caught by a two-fer; technology and automation skewing the “blue collar” and high end job market away from skills everyone with just a high school degree trained for or had experience in, and illegal immigration lowering the average wage of all work on the low end, undercutting some of the self-help self-employed service industries that citizens use to do, for decent wages; industries now dominated by legal and illegal cheaper imported labor.
maybe if they kicked out all the ILLEGALS there'd be money to solve the problem... wait, never mind, that's crazy talk
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