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

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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.
> 
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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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> las-squatters-are-using-washing-machines-and-stealing-water/ar-AA13mI9H

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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
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