The RVs are a symptom. Going after the symptom doesn’t necessarily do anything to address the underlying issue. But the underlying issue is systemic, which makes it very difficult to fix.
Real estate is the primary source of wealth for most people in the US. To bring down housing costs would necessarily mean bringing down home values, leading to many people potentially losing a considerable amount of their personal net worth. And I’m not talking about billionaires, or even necessarily millionaires. I’m talking mostly about people whose net worth is in the hundreds of thousands, with the vast majority of that coming from any equity they might have in their home.
There’s no viable solution for fixing this that doesn’t result in those people losing at least some net worth, at least initially. Not that I can see, anyway. We need to do it anyway, but I understand why those people aren’t enthusiastic about it.
CA has a loooooong history of being cruel to the poor. During the Great Depression the Sheriff of LA set up road blocks at the state line to block refugees… from Oklahoma.
It’s no surprise that the dental-work masquerading as Governor is steeped in this hostility to the poor.
So keep this shit in mind and vote for Katie Porter for governor not the fucking billionaire they have been pushing.
The center of his field work is City Council District 11 in Los Angeles, where Councilwoman Traci Park spearheads towing sweeps. When R.V.s are removed, she publishes social media posts about her success cleaning the streets. Local businesses and residents organize against oversize vehicles and sometimes hire private security companies to press R.V. dwellers to move — even when the vehicles are legally parked.
Ms. Park describes R.V. dwellers as living in mile-long encampments of dilapidated “nuisance vehicles” where crime and unsanitary conditions are rampant. “There’s widespread illegal dumping, including of human waste,” she said. “These encampments are a public health emergency, a public safety emergency.”
So if the owners can’t move it, and a tow truck can’t move it…
They’re destroyed if valued up to 4k, it used to be 500.
The solution is housing the unhoused, but if one state tried to do it on their own, other states would just give their homeless bus tickets, something that’s been happening already for generations.
It needs a federal program, so when the shit states just ship people to Cali, Cali doesn’t bear the whole burden. Otherwise any state that tries to help because a mecca for the unhoused.
But anyone that says they’d be ok with their street filling up with broken down RVs has lived a very sheltered life. This isn’t normal NIMBY shit where people don’t want services near them, this is insanely dangerous for everyone involved. The solution is just helping people.
Agreed. That said, it’s worth noting that a lot of people who are homeless were residents of the area before they became unhoused. It’s often a myth that a city’s homeless population primarily consists of people looking for a more lenient city.
Take a place like California’s east bay. 80 percent of those homeless people were from the area before they became homeless.
I’d be interested in how “from the area” is defined. Given the percentage of the general population that’s originally from elsewhere, I’m pretty sure it’s not been limited to “born here.” Fair enough . But there’s a study from USC that seems to indicate a lot of homeless people who came from elsewhere initially stayed in someone else’s home before becoming homeless. Would that put them in the “from the area” group when they wind up on the street? Are we talking about years? Or months?
Separately, I’m interested in how many foster children age out of the (minimal) support system and into homelessness.
The homeless people living in RVs are the responsible and organized ones who saw a bad situation coming and invested in a solution that would keep them from living in a tent.
If that solution is taken off the table it’ll just lead to more people living in tents and all the problems that come from that.
They should just stack them on top of each other like in Ready Player One. No need to demolish them, that’s a waste!
What a disgusting shithole I would not want to set a foot into.
