thank you...
Posted on 08/08/2018 5:30:31 PM PDT by jeannineinsd
ANGELINO HEIGHTS (CBSLA) — A method of deterring homeless people from sleeping in a part of Los Angeles dealing with the crisis is drawing mixed reactions from neighbors.
A homeless encampment once stood on a section of Custer Avenue in Angelino Heights near where the 101 and 110 freeways connect. The cul-de-sac right off Sunset Boulevard now has several large boulders strewn about the sidewalks and patches of dirt, ostensibly to prevent people from sleeping there.
Joe Illeng used to be homeless and now has a home and a family. However, he told CBS2 News this in no way to deal with the issue.
“If that was my brother or my stepdad or let’s say whoever — or somebody I loved and they were down and out — is this how I would want them to be treated? No,” said Illeng. “It is cruel.”
There are no homes along the short street, but neighbors from nearby businesses told CBS2 off-camera said they understand why this last-ditch effort was used.
L.A. is not the first city to see this type of deterrent. San Francisco’s public works agency placed large rocks in section of the city where encampments were a common sight.
Despite the disagreement, neighbors seem to think this is not a permanent solution.
“I think it’s a bigger issue and a problem for the City of Los Angeles,” said resident Courtney Aldridge, who was shopping at the adjacent CVS. “The problems are much deeper, deeply rooted than that.”
L.A. City Councilman Gil Cedillo represents the area. A spokesman told CBS2 News they were made aware of the boulders Monday and that the sanitation department would be removing them soon.
If a relative of mine were that down and out, I wouldn't have them living on the streets. I would bring them into my house or apartment.
Bums or rocks in my neighborhood... Bums or rocks? That’s a toughie...
[ “If that was my brother or my stepdad or let’s say whoever — or somebody I loved and they were down and out — is this how I would want them to be treated? No,” said Illeng. “It is cruel.”
If a relative of mine were that down and out, I wouldn’t have them living on the streets. I would bring them into my house or apartment. ]
I have to wonder how many homeless would be taken in by families if they just asked... sadly many are mentally ill and would never even think to ask.
thank you...
Why? Because many of them --- not all --- are very hard to live with. They drink and they stink, they drop lighted cigarettes hither and thither, they make messes,they leave trash wherever they go, they fight, they yell and cuss, they steal things from each other, they're paranoid and go around mumbling and making menacing remarks, they accost you, they scare you.
A lot of it is due to the whole gamut of mental illnesses. A good deal of it is attributable to drugs.
It is pathetic, and sure, it'd break your heart if it were somebody you loved. That doesn't mean you can invite them into your home.
Some of them can live peaceably. And for some, it's an on-and-off thing: sometimes serene and friendly, sometimes crazy as rats.
There are reasons their parents, brothers, exes, adult children, don't want them in the house.
There needs to be protective, controlled-living residential placements for such as these. Mental asylums.
Churches, here's your mission: step up.
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Oh Stop it! "Ostensibly" is too useful a word to see it watered down with sloppy usage. If the writer can't use big words right, he shouldn't use them.
What’s next? Beds of Nails?
That is so sad but true.
“If the writer can’t use big words right, he shouldn’t use them.”
Inexorably true.
Why is it that every time I see Andrea Mitchell, I am reminded of Terry the Pterodactyl on the Pee-Wee Herman Show? ( I wish I knew how to post a picture.)
“They drink and they stink, they make messes, they leave trash wherever they go, they fight, they yell and cuss”
... and that is just the relatives who mutually cannot get along with their homeless family member they helped create.
Uh, the reason the homeless are crazy as rats is they do not have a home.
Go out and live in the bushes for a week and come back and report on what you learned.
Truth is, family dysfunction is FAMILY dysfunction - each member is ill, some admit, some deny.
This was not a big problem in the ‘50s, even early ‘60s; what happened?
Couldn’t have been ‘liberalism’ Leftism, could it ?
Even if the craziness is somehow explainable for all of them, all around.
The mental institutions need to be reopened & the ACLU needs to be told to STFU.
This was not a big problem in the ‘50s, even early ‘60s; what happened?””’
The ACLU went after Reagan & demanded that mental institutions be closed.
i suppose it is better than dropping the boulders from the air while they are still camped out there.
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