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More homeless camps are appearing beyond downtown L.A.'s skid row
LA Times ^ | January 24, 2015 | Gale Holland

Posted on 01/24/2015 12:41:53 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Evicted four months ago from their Highland Park apartment, Louis Morales and his 18-year-old stepson, Arthur Valenzuela, live half-hidden by brush along the nearby Arroyo Seco riverbed. Morales, 49, keeps a framed bible verse and a stuffed monkey in his tent. Water hauled by bike from a park heats up on the camp stove. Next door, their friend Johnny Salazar fixes bikes and shattered computer screens on the cheap for people who live in the neighborhood. A brother and sister Morales has known for years live up the river, and three couples stay down by the bridge.

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To: ChildOfThe60s
Munn Park in downtown Lakeland has them hanging around there at night, hurting the restaurants that border the park.

Not just the restaurants. The area surrounding Munn, including Lake Mirror with the (cough)wonderful(cough) sculpture, was just on the verge of being gentrified and becoming a desirable location when this started. Now the only time worth going there is First Friday, when there are enough people to even the odds.

21 posted on 01/24/2015 1:51:29 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

To paraphrase;
“Hey! I could have named you Ritchie Zuela”


22 posted on 01/24/2015 1:51:43 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Are there no Obamaviles in Mexico they can live in?


23 posted on 01/24/2015 1:51:51 PM PST by Graybeard58 ( For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s effing’ Skid Row. I have a Jewish pal (well, they do own the fabric stores in the fashion district) and the were told literally by the district manager that the homeless can camp outside their stores and it’s in their “rights”. That’s why everyone gets out of there by 6 PM.


24 posted on 01/24/2015 1:59:42 PM PST by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: ChildOfThe60s

When I lived in St. Pete in the 80’s they were trying to rehabilitate the downtown area, but it was inundated with homeless. The homeless were a huge impediment to business because they agressivly solicited would-be customers who stayed away in droves. So, the police arrested them and took them to the booking center which is in the far north of the county. Then they’d “discover” that they had no cause to arrest them and they’d just let them go. The closest place to walk from there was Clearwater. When I left Clearwater was suing. But when I returned I’d have to say the St. Pete downtown is fully rejuvenated. I was told they had no homeless problem. Which, probably means they’re actively shooing them off, which I thought was illegal. (You can’t use any big city library as it’s a daytime homeless shelter.)


25 posted on 01/24/2015 2:04:20 PM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: Lee'sGhost

What is the equivalent of fun-employment for homelessness???
Fun-employment allows you to sit around all day with the kids, take trips, play with the dog...Imagine the fun you have in the obamaconomy when you don’t have to worry about house payments, taxes, or even cleaning the bathroom.


26 posted on 01/24/2015 2:17:03 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Austin has thousands of them. The former city council had the idea of building an RV park for them, but of course, no neighborhood wanted it nearby. That city council is no more, and the idea seems to have died for obvious reasons.


27 posted on 01/24/2015 2:40:24 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: Bobalu

“...Some people claim that there’s Obama to blame,...”


28 posted on 01/24/2015 4:24:16 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: chajin

I left there in 2006, visited for several days in 2012.

As I recall, the mayor, city manager, city council and country commission are, for the most part, the same bunch being recycled around and around. Like musical chairs.
I see Howard Wiggs finally got his turn at mayor last year. What a joke. He’s so full of it. As are they all.

Did you get rid of that idiot female police chief?


29 posted on 01/24/2015 4:39:44 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: Calvin Locke

But I know, it’s the voter’s own damn fault.....


30 posted on 01/24/2015 4:40:46 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Here in Seattle they just did their annual homeless night out count (includes shelters, official tent cities, as well as unofficial encampments and people sleeping in doorways. It has been steadily rising over the years - but it was up 21% this year over last.

I’m just glad the economy under obama is so good - or there would be even more people homeless! /s


31 posted on 01/24/2015 4:48:45 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: Gen.Blather

Ah for the days when there were VAGRANCY LAWS to take care of such problems. When Vagrancy laws were done away with the rifraf swarmed the local library to such an extent one floor was closed due to BED BUGS!
For the first time, free museums suddenly started charging a high admission to keep such rifraf out!


32 posted on 01/24/2015 4:57:24 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Only natural for the second Great Depression to have modern day Hoovervilles.


33 posted on 01/25/2015 5:48:19 AM PST by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be earned and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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To: SamAdams76

I know there are a couple of such encampments in NJ, which surprised me because of the weather; if I lost everything I’d head south on 95 until I was in a climate warm enough to sleep under a bridge year-round. While these aren’t in the best of areas (I believe one is in Lakewood and the other in Passaic), they are close enough to people of substance that I’m surprised they are tolerated.


34 posted on 01/25/2015 6:27:53 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative aiction s economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Rural areas north of NYC have long been accused of giving vagrants one-way bus tickets to the city; they simply don’t have the resources to deal with them, and refuse to endanger their productive citizens by allowing them to linger...


35 posted on 01/25/2015 6:32:19 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative aiction s economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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