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Originally Posted by sopas ej
I didn't think that homelessness and mental health issues were just an LA thing, I thought it was a US-wide/American city thing. I see homeless in other big American cities; in NYC I saw them flat out sleeping on the sidewalks and in subway stations in plain view, unsheltered. At least in LA, they can sleep in tents. A few years ago, LAPD and other city agencies were confiscating the tents and what little other property these homeless people had. I guess some people saw that as cruel, and they stopped doing that. Maybe if you don't have street smarts and are unfamiliar with American big city life, and homelessness makes you uncomfortable, big city life isn't for you and you need to move to a smaller city or small town, and you can find your Shangri-la there.
That's funny, because there are definitely homeless in Orange County and Manhattan Beach. I guess you didn't ride a bike or walk along a concrete riverbed or concrete wash bike path, or look under bridges that go over riverbeds/washes; you probably didn't go into Santa Ana or Costa Mesa or Garden Grove... etc., or see panhandlers on street medians at stoplights or freeway exits. And homeless people are all over the Gaslamp Quarter in San Diego.
Many homeless people also live in their cars. According to this website, https://www.safeparkingla.org/, in Los Angeles County, there are over 15,700 people living in their vehicles each night. These vehicle dwellers represent over 25% of the population of people experiencing homelessness in LA County. Safe Parking LA provides designated parking lots for people living out of their vehicles to have a safe place to park at night without worrying about their safety or being harassed and told to move their cars. They also provide showers, toilets and hand-washing stations. In fact, over the weekend, it was on the news that the City of LA installed permanent hand-washing stations in North Hollywood and downtown's Skid Row. |
Look you can say whatever you want but the whole situation is disgusting. Skid row is worse than any third world country I have been too. I have never seen anything like that in my life. It was sad and just a shame that California and LA can’t do better than that. The homeless there are freaking everywhere!!!!! And sone of them are aggressive. They are a danger to themselves and to the rest of civilians. From what I saw a lot of them where high on hard core drugs.
Nyc is twice the size of LA and the Amount of homeless people and mentally ill you see on the streets is disproportionately greater in LA. It’s not even close. I’m actually so happy to be back and nyc and see that our city is dealing with this issue so much better. Even tho we have a terrible mayor. Thankfully it looks like the city is already looking beyond his term which ends next year.
When I was in LA I went to to a couple parks just to relax and seeing all the homeless people, all the tents, trash, etc just makes you uncomfortable and we ended up leaving. The only park where I didn’t see homeless was were they have the tar pits. And I guess it’s because they close the park in the evenings. Honestly I was thinking thank God we don’t have this in central park. Tourists must get such bad impression of LA after seeing all this.
Look, there are homeless people in most cities. In fact in nyc we have more homeless than in la but we put the majority of them in hotels and proper housing and then of course you will find some on the streets but whAt you guys have in LA cannot be found anywhere else. Not in nyc, not in Chicago, not in Miami, etc. Thank god we don’t allow tents. Once you get a tent you won’t be able to move it. It will stay there you like it or not. They need to build proper housing units and get rid of those tents. They look terrible.
You guys have a lot of work to do before 2028 if you really want to show the world how great LA really is.