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.
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.