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  Brazen homeless camps show how LA's squatters are using WASHING MACHINES and stealing water zinn <zinn@reno.us> - 2022-10-27 06:37 +0000
    Re: Brazen homeless camps show how LA's squatters are using WASHING MACHINES and stealing water gymRatRedneck <gymrathippie@shitbucket.kill> - 2022-11-01 10:19 -0700

#3592 — Brazen homeless camps show how LA's squatters are using WASHING MACHINES and stealing water

Images and video show homeless in Los Angeles syphoning water and power in 
camps sprouting throughout the city's streets - with some of the brazen 
encampments even boasting working washing machines.

Homelessness is a dominant issue in the state's upcoming mayoral election, 
with a large field of candidates promising to do more on an issue that has 
placed Los Angeles in an unwelcome national spotlight.

Sagging tents, rusting RVs, and makeshift structures have become 
commonplace along Hollywood Boulevard to Venice Beach - and even in the 
shadow of City Hall.

Over the past year, the camps have become increasingly bold, putting up 
full-sized tents and cordoning off entire streets, much to the chagrin of 
outraged locals.

Now, citizens have snapped evidence that the urban outposts are stealing 
water and power from the city to maintain a surprisingly lavish lifestyle 
while living out on the street, taking water from hydrants and electricity 
from any outlet they come across.

One photo snapped by an awestruck bystander showed one such encampment in 
Hollywood, where multiple people were seen washing what looked to be their 
cars and motorcycles with syphoned water from a nearby hydrant.

Multiple cars were parked in the makeshift camp site - which also sported 
multiple working washing machines and several tents.

The photos, shared to Twitter by @LeatherJoseph on Monday, seem to suggest 
the camp's inhabitants are also stealing electricity from a nearby street 
light, to power their appliances and vehicles.

Brazen homeless camps show how LA's squatters are using WASHING MACHINES 
and stealing water

That same day in seedier South-Central, evidence of another, even more 
shameless encampment surfaced on social media - one also with a working 
washing machine  and even a oversized that an onlooker noted was blocking 
a local business.

'1 bedroom tent with garden & working washing machine blocking a business 
driveway. Welcome to Los Angeles,' the user wrote, in a post that shared 
video of the washing machine in the middle of a clothes cycle.

On the 'door' to the unseen inhabitant's evidently homey tent, a sign 
urged onlookers: 'Don't be hatin!'

Such sightings have become increasingly common since the pandemic, when 
the City of Angels, like many other liberal-run cities across the country, 
descended into a den of debauchery and crime that it has yet to crawl out 
of.

This comes as the city's wealthiest residents have been forced to fight a 
proposed 'mansion tax' on properties over $5million, further enflaming 
their dissatisfaction with city leadership.

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The city's current crime-ridden state has spurred countless locals and 
even celebrities to flee the Golden State for a better life, with the most 
recent being actor Mark Wahlberg, who is fleeing his longtime home in LA 
in favor for a life in nearby Nevada.

The likes of Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, and Matt 
Damon have also participated in the mass exodus - as well as hundreds of 
thousands of ordinary citizens - citing a combination of over taxes, 
crime, and the state's notorious ever-worsening homeless problem. 

Moreover, the state recently experienced its first population decline in 
decades last year, when roughly 250,000 residents were reported to have 
left the city - many instead electing to buy property in less costly 
locales such as Texas and Arizona. 

Mayoral candidate Rick Caruso has made keeping Hollywood 'in Hollywood' a 
huge point of his campaign - though he appears to be fighting a losing 
battle to woke progressive Karen Bass. 

Caruso is running against Democrat Karen Bass in the November election on 
a platform of tackling crime, homelessness and bringing an end to a steady 
stream of 'career politicians' such as DA George Gascon, whose 'soft-on-
crime' policies he says have ruined the city. 

Caruso has also criticized the city's treatment of local businesses, who 
instead of being rewarded for putting their money into the city, are now 
faced with aggressive homelessness that likely scares away customers.

Caruso recently asserted how this is the case with Netflix, which moved 
its headquarters to Hollywood during the pandemic, only to find homeless 
encampments outside the office on a regular basis.

He cited how current Mayor Eric Garcetti's office has so far failed to 
address that issue, as well as the hundreds of other camps currently 
operating in plain sight across the city.

 'Look at [Netflix CEO] Ted Sarandos. Here's a guy who said, "I'm going to 
make a commitment and have my headquarters actually in Hollywood," and 
made a big, incredibly wonderful commitment to the city. And what has the 
city done?' Caruso asked.

'The city has allowed encampments all around that headquarters.'

He added that such encampments is deterring the city's professionals from 
returning to work at the office, slowing the city's post-pandemic recovery 
to a virtual standstill.

'People are coming to work, and I've talked to the executives in there, 
coming to work carrying human waste on their shoes because there's so much 
human waste on the sidewalk, because we've allowed people to live in the 
most inhumane situation.

'It's incredible what all of our elected officials have allowed to happen. 
We're allowing people to live and die in the streets in their own waste. 
And then we allow that to happen in front of one of the great companies of 
Hollywood.'

Caruso was a Republican for years before registering as a Democrat earlier 
this year, ahead of the mayor's race.

He insisted in his interview - and has done throughout his campaign - that 
party affiliation is irrelevant.

'None of these issues are Republican or Democrat issues. None of them are. 
These are human issues. These are issues that are affecting all of our 
lives every single day.

'When crime is spiking, when you've got homicides that are at a 15-year 
high and it's only getting worse, when you have hate crimes that are up 
160 percent, when you have homelessness now at 44,000 and people dying in 
the streets, these are life and death issues that transcend any kind of 
party.

'And, I don't look at this as party politics from that standpoint. We've 
got just serious problems,' he said.

John Maceri, chief executive of the People Concern, one of LA's largest 
nonprofits serving the homeless, agreed with the overall finding that the 
city needs to build housing faster and cheaper. 

The solution, he said, is innovative financing, slashing red tape that 
slows projects and incentives for developers to aggregate funding to speed 
up construction. 

'Housing has not kept pace with the urgency of the unsheltered 
homelessness crisis,' Maceri said.

Homeless encampments have spread into virtually every neighborhood of the 
City of Angels, while the number of homeless has climbed to an estimated 
70,000 people. 

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, facing re-election this year, has budgeted 
record sums to combat homelessness that pervades all of the state's major 
cities and many smaller communities as well. 

The state is providing roughly $12 billion on homelessness programs over 
two years.

Still, the government's inability to clear encampments from streets, parks 
and sidewalks has left voters angry and frustrated. 

In 2019, then-President Donald Trump threatened to intercede, though he 
never acted on the threat. 

San Francisco's progressive mayor, London Breed, earlier this year 
declared a state of emergency in the city's Tenderloin district - one of 
the most overrun neighborhoods - after concerns about homelessness and 
open drug-peddling there.

Meanwhile, residents are calling on their local government to address the 
issue after more than a year of promises to address the rise in 
encampments, to little success. 

Recently, a Venice Beach community organization warned Los Angeles 
officials that they were liable for millions in payouts if the remaining 
homeless encampments were not cleared out, months after the city removed 
about 200 people from the boardwalk.

The Venice Stakeholders Association sent a letter to several city offices 
explaining that LA could face a number of expensive lawsuits if they 
failed to protect the safety of nearby residents. 

Those who live in the area have complained about the garbage littering the 
boardwalk and the unchecked fires started by people camping outside.

Last year, a fire at a homeless tent near the beach spread to a vacant 
two-story building and completely destroyed it. It took 116 firefighters 
two hours to put it out.

The city cleared out hundreds from the area over the summer, but the 
president of the Venice Stakeholders Association said many still camp out 
overnight.

Mark Ryavec, who leads the 11-year-old organization, told KABC: 'There's 
almost no police presence or fire department presence down here overnight.

'We're putting the city on notice, that, if there's loss of life, if 
there's a structure, they are clearly already negligent, and they already 
will face a huge settlement.'

There were 1,901 homeless people in the Venice area in 2020, according to 
the latest count conducted by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. 

What is Proposition HHH? 
In October 2015, the LA City Administrative Office submitted a report to 
the mayor and the City Council's Homelessness and Poverty Committee on the 
number of people experiencing homelessness in the city.

In 2016, voters in Los Angeles  passed Proposition HHH which enabled city 
officials to spend $1.2 billion for the development of housing units for 
those who were homeless.

The funding could also be used to build shelters.

In order to find a funding source for the housing units, city officials 
worked with many public and private community stakeholders, including 
County leadership, United Way, and the Corporation for Supportive Housing. 

They set out plans tp build more than 10,00 units of supportive and 
affordable housing by 2026.

'It's illegal to camp on Venice Beach and we want that message established 
by enforcement of the rules that exist,' Ryavec added. 

Ryavec's comments came as a poll conducted by The Los Angeles Times found 
in 10 Los Angeles residents cited the city's homelessness problem as a 
main cause for feeling unsafe in their communities, with one in five 
people saying they would consider moving to escape the problem.  

Meanwhile, the city is shelling out up to $837,000 on opulent apartments 
for its homeless as part of a $1.2billion project to home the region's 
sprawling homeless population known as Proposition HHH.

The undertaking is intended to build housing for the estimated 41,000 
homeless people in the city, has seen about 1,200 units, most of which are 
studio or one-bedroom apartments, completed since voters approved the 
spending in 2016. 

An audit recently found 14 per cent of the units built exceeded $700,000 
each, and one project in pre-development is estimated to cost almost 
$837,000 per unit.

It is not clear if Caruso, if elected, will pursue such a plan. Caruso 
currently trails the much more progressive Bass by single digits in most 
polls.

A tight mayoral race will not be the only thing getting attention on Los 
Angeles ballots in November, though. 

Measure ULA, dubbed 'the mansion tax,' will also be up for a vote, amid 
opposition from Los Angeles’ real estate industry and abundance of 
affluent residents. 

If passed, the measure would add a new tax on L.A. property sales north of 
$5 million to fund homelessness programs such as Proposition HHH.

If successful, the measure will see property sales in Los Angeles between 
$5 and $10 million would be subject to a 4 percent tax rate, while those 
worth $10 million or more would be taxed at an additional rate of 5.5 
percent.

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#3593

Good. Beats washing shitty little lectric cars.

Ps. Hoping they steal every solar panel on every public utility and 
'trash compactor' (that isn't a compactor) and put them to good use 
charging their cellies so they can shit bomb this newsgroup and you, twit.


On 10/26/22 23:37, zinn wrote:
> Images and video show homeless in Los Angeles syphoning water and power in
> camps sprouting throughout the city's streets - with some of the brazen
> encampments even boasting working washing machines.
> 
> Homelessness is a dominant issue in the state's upcoming mayoral election,
> with a large field of candidates promising to do more on an issue that has
> placed Los Angeles in an unwelcome national spotlight.
> 
> Sagging tents, rusting RVs, and makeshift structures have become
> commonplace along Hollywood Boulevard to Venice Beach - and even in the
> shadow of City Hall.
> 
> Over the past year, the camps have become increasingly bold, putting up
> full-sized tents and cordoning off entire streets, much to the chagrin of
> outraged locals.
> 
> Now, citizens have snapped evidence that the urban outposts are stealing
> water and power from the city to maintain a surprisingly lavish lifestyle
> while living out on the street, taking water from hydrants and electricity
> from any outlet they come across.
> 
> One photo snapped by an awestruck bystander showed one such encampment in
> Hollywood, where multiple people were seen washing what looked to be their
> cars and motorcycles with syphoned water from a nearby hydrant.
> 
> Multiple cars were parked in the makeshift camp site - which also sported
> multiple working washing machines and several tents.
> 
> The photos, shared to Twitter by @LeatherJoseph on Monday, seem to suggest
> the camp's inhabitants are also stealing electricity from a nearby street
> light, to power their appliances and vehicles.
> 
> Brazen homeless camps show how LA's squatters are using WASHING MACHINES
> and stealing water
> 
> That same day in seedier South-Central, evidence of another, even more
> shameless encampment surfaced on social media - one also with a working
> washing machine  and even a oversized that an onlooker noted was blocking
> a local business.
> 
> '1 bedroom tent with garden & working washing machine blocking a business
> driveway. Welcome to Los Angeles,' the user wrote, in a post that shared
> video of the washing machine in the middle of a clothes cycle.
> 
> On the 'door' to the unseen inhabitant's evidently homey tent, a sign
> urged onlookers: 'Don't be hatin!'
> 
> Such sightings have become increasingly common since the pandemic, when
> the City of Angels, like many other liberal-run cities across the country,
> descended into a den of debauchery and crime that it has yet to crawl out
> of.
> 
> This comes as the city's wealthiest residents have been forced to fight a
> proposed 'mansion tax' on properties over $5million, further enflaming
> their dissatisfaction with city leadership.
> 
> <https://img-s-msn-
> com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA13mqZM.img?w=634&h=249&m=6>
> 
> The city's current crime-ridden state has spurred countless locals and
> even celebrities to flee the Golden State for a better life, with the most
> recent being actor Mark Wahlberg, who is fleeing his longtime home in LA
> in favor for a life in nearby Nevada.
> 
> The likes of Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, and Matt
> Damon have also participated in the mass exodus - as well as hundreds of
> thousands of ordinary citizens - citing a combination of over taxes,
> crime, and the state's notorious ever-worsening homeless problem.
> 
> Moreover, the state recently experienced its first population decline in
> decades last year, when roughly 250,000 residents were reported to have
> left the city - many instead electing to buy property in less costly
> locales such as Texas and Arizona.
> 
> Mayoral candidate Rick Caruso has made keeping Hollywood 'in Hollywood' a
> huge point of his campaign - though he appears to be fighting a losing
> battle to woke progressive Karen Bass.
> 
> Caruso is running against Democrat Karen Bass in the November election on
> a platform of tackling crime, homelessness and bringing an end to a steady
> stream of 'career politicians' such as DA George Gascon, whose 'soft-on-
> crime' policies he says have ruined the city.
> 
> Caruso has also criticized the city's treatment of local businesses, who
> instead of being rewarded for putting their money into the city, are now
> faced with aggressive homelessness that likely scares away customers.
> 
> Caruso recently asserted how this is the case with Netflix, which moved
> its headquarters to Hollywood during the pandemic, only to find homeless
> encampments outside the office on a regular basis.
> 
> He cited how current Mayor Eric Garcetti's office has so far failed to
> address that issue, as well as the hundreds of other camps currently
> operating in plain sight across the city.
> 
>   'Look at [Netflix CEO] Ted Sarandos. Here's a guy who said, "I'm going to
> make a commitment and have my headquarters actually in Hollywood," and
> made a big, incredibly wonderful commitment to the city. And what has the
> city done?' Caruso asked.
> 
> 'The city has allowed encampments all around that headquarters.'
> 
> He added that such encampments is deterring the city's professionals from
> returning to work at the office, slowing the city's post-pandemic recovery
> to a virtual standstill.
> 
> 'People are coming to work, and I've talked to the executives in there,
> coming to work carrying human waste on their shoes because there's so much
> human waste on the sidewalk, because we've allowed people to live in the
> most inhumane situation.
> 
> 'It's incredible what all of our elected officials have allowed to happen.
> We're allowing people to live and die in the streets in their own waste.
> And then we allow that to happen in front of one of the great companies of
> Hollywood.'
> 
> Caruso was a Republican for years before registering as a Democrat earlier
> this year, ahead of the mayor's race.
> 
> He insisted in his interview - and has done throughout his campaign - that
> party affiliation is irrelevant.
> 
> 'None of these issues are Republican or Democrat issues. None of them are.
> These are human issues. These are issues that are affecting all of our
> lives every single day.
> 
> 'When crime is spiking, when you've got homicides that are at a 15-year
> high and it's only getting worse, when you have hate crimes that are up
> 160 percent, when you have homelessness now at 44,000 and people dying in
> the streets, these are life and death issues that transcend any kind of
> party.
> 
> 'And, I don't look at this as party politics from that standpoint. We've
> got just serious problems,' he said.
> 
> John Maceri, chief executive of the People Concern, one of LA's largest
> nonprofits serving the homeless, agreed with the overall finding that the
> city needs to build housing faster and cheaper.
> 
> The solution, he said, is innovative financing, slashing red tape that
> slows projects and incentives for developers to aggregate funding to speed
> up construction.
> 
> 'Housing has not kept pace with the urgency of the unsheltered
> homelessness crisis,' Maceri said.
> 
> Homeless encampments have spread into virtually every neighborhood of the
> City of Angels, while the number of homeless has climbed to an estimated
> 70,000 people.
> 
> Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, facing re-election this year, has budgeted
> record sums to combat homelessness that pervades all of the state's major
> cities and many smaller communities as well.
> 
> The state is providing roughly $12 billion on homelessness programs over
> two years.
> 
> Still, the government's inability to clear encampments from streets, parks
> and sidewalks has left voters angry and frustrated.
> 
> In 2019, then-President Donald Trump threatened to intercede, though he
> never acted on the threat.
> 
> San Francisco's progressive mayor, London Breed, earlier this year
> declared a state of emergency in the city's Tenderloin district - one of
> the most overrun neighborhoods - after concerns about homelessness and
> open drug-peddling there.
> 
> Meanwhile, residents are calling on their local government to address the
> issue after more than a year of promises to address the rise in
> encampments, to little success.
> 
> Recently, a Venice Beach community organization warned Los Angeles
> officials that they were liable for millions in payouts if the remaining
> homeless encampments were not cleared out, months after the city removed
> about 200 people from the boardwalk.
> 
> The Venice Stakeholders Association sent a letter to several city offices
> explaining that LA could face a number of expensive lawsuits if they
> failed to protect the safety of nearby residents.
> 
> Those who live in the area have complained about the garbage littering the
> boardwalk and the unchecked fires started by people camping outside.
> 
> Last year, a fire at a homeless tent near the beach spread to a vacant
> two-story building and completely destroyed it. It took 116 firefighters
> two hours to put it out.
> 
> The city cleared out hundreds from the area over the summer, but the
> president of the Venice Stakeholders Association said many still camp out
> overnight.
> 
> Mark Ryavec, who leads the 11-year-old organization, told KABC: 'There's
> almost no police presence or fire department presence down here overnight.
> 
> 'We're putting the city on notice, that, if there's loss of life, if
> there's a structure, they are clearly already negligent, and they already
> will face a huge settlement.'
> 
> There were 1,901 homeless people in the Venice area in 2020, according to
> the latest count conducted by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.
> 
> What is Proposition HHH?
> In October 2015, the LA City Administrative Office submitted a report to
> the mayor and the City Council's Homelessness and Poverty Committee on the
> number of people experiencing homelessness in the city.
> 
> In 2016, voters in Los Angeles  passed Proposition HHH which enabled city
> officials to spend $1.2 billion for the development of housing units for
> those who were homeless.
> 
> The funding could also be used to build shelters.
> 
> In order to find a funding source for the housing units, city officials
> worked with many public and private community stakeholders, including
> County leadership, United Way, and the Corporation for Supportive Housing.
> 
> They set out plans tp build more than 10,00 units of supportive and
> affordable housing by 2026.
> 
> 'It's illegal to camp on Venice Beach and we want that message established
> by enforcement of the rules that exist,' Ryavec added.
> 
> Ryavec's comments came as a poll conducted by The Los Angeles Times found
> in 10 Los Angeles residents cited the city's homelessness problem as a
> main cause for feeling unsafe in their communities, with one in five
> people saying they would consider moving to escape the problem.
> 
> Meanwhile, the city is shelling out up to $837,000 on opulent apartments
> for its homeless as part of a $1.2billion project to home the region's
> sprawling homeless population known as Proposition HHH.
> 
> The undertaking is intended to build housing for the estimated 41,000
> homeless people in the city, has seen about 1,200 units, most of which are
> studio or one-bedroom apartments, completed since voters approved the
> spending in 2016.
> 
> An audit recently found 14 per cent of the units built exceeded $700,000
> each, and one project in pre-development is estimated to cost almost
> $837,000 per unit.
> 
> It is not clear if Caruso, if elected, will pursue such a plan. Caruso
> currently trails the much more progressive Bass by single digits in most
> polls.
> 
> A tight mayoral race will not be the only thing getting attention on Los
> Angeles ballots in November, though.
> 
> Measure ULA, dubbed 'the mansion tax,' will also be up for a vote, amid
> opposition from Los Angeles� real estate industry and abundance of
> affluent residents.
> 
> If passed, the measure would add a new tax on L.A. property sales north of
> $5 million to fund homelessness programs such as Proposition HHH.
> 
> If successful, the measure will see property sales in Los Angeles between
> $5 and $10 million would be subject to a 4 percent tax rate, while those
> worth $10 million or more would be taxed at an additional rate of 5.5
> percent.
> 
> https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/brazen-homeless-camps-show-how-
> las-squatters-are-using-washing-machines-and-stealing-water/ar-AA13mI9H

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