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Originally Posted by LosAngelesSportsFan
This. In LA, we need to get rid of Garcetti who enables this bullshit and doesn't allow anyone to do anything. Any homeless person can put up a tent anywhere and we have to accept it. No recourse
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Something big must have happened in my LA neighborhood of Woodland Hills as of the last 8 or 9 months the homeless seemed to all but disappeared. In fact I’ve noticed all of the underpass along the 101 in the west valley have been cleared of tents. I know there is a lot of money in this area so someone pulled some strings.
I can also add that I grew up in Watts and the east side of south central, by the way was the poorest parts of the hood, and never did you see homeless people penetrating the residential areas of the neighborhood. Yes we had wino’s (old saying) who hang out by the liquor stores but that’s it. Even those were only 3 or 4 on most days and usually it was someone’s relative in the hood so we knew many of them.
The homeless problem is out of control but it is still mainly concentrating in central city neighborhoods. Still 95% of the metro area you won’t see a trace of homelessness. I just drove downtown LA today and one you pass the Hollywood district along the 101 freeway it’s just in your face. All of what used to be beautiful landscaping along the freeway is nothing but hundreds of tents. It’s not something you can easily miss, I can only just imagine what a visitor would think seeing this in one of the the most popular tourist city in the world in the richest country in the world.