I live in LA
It was a massive homeless camp, spread over blocks and blocks. That’s also true all over the downtown business districts in LA, despite a $2Billion bond passed a few years ago to provide “housing”. Nothing has been done. Typical example: There is an encampment [looks like a prison camp, incl. guard towers and barbed wired topped walls] down the street from me. It’s been “open” for two years at a cost of $4-5million, yet remains empty, but there’s plenty of city workers lounging around. Drugs/prostitution is not allowed, so no takers.
Our brainiacs in government also permitted storage of highly flammable materials, next to open flames in the homeless camp, underneath the major downtown freeway artery.
This was, like the burning of mansions in Brentwood a few years ago, entirely predictable and a direct result of the idiotic ideas that pass for policy in LA. They’ll now spend billions in “repairs” and a year or two from now, will be exactly the same as it was before the fire.
Thanks for the heads up. I will be coming to LA early next year to see my aunt and uncle. They moved there in 1978 when California was a great place to live. They are both in their late 80’s and cannot leave.