Encampment grows near Beverly Hills city limits
Residents and business owners near the Los Angeles and Beverly Hills border are expressing frustration about a growing encampment of people experiencing homelessness and what they describe as a lack of action from city officials.
Eric Spillman reports for the KTLA 5 Morning News on April 13, 2023.
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If I were homeless, I would want to live in a nice neighborhood!
@ThommyKane
Жыл бұрын
Exactly. They talk about how unsafe they feel in their locked mansions. how unsafe do you think these homeless people feel living in tents on the sidewalk? Why wouldn't they post up in Beverly Hills? Its safe.
@nomaderic
Жыл бұрын
I'm kinda homeless (I live in my car). I'm originally from the hood but I spend all my time in rich neighborhoods. Why wouldn't I lol. Why would I wanna still be in the hood when I can sleep in rich white neighborhoods and go to all the same places they do. The stores are better, the parks, the infrastructure, you name it everything is better Why would I not wanna stay there.
@fake734
Жыл бұрын
@@nomaderic That's right! If the Govts aren't going to help people in need, they can't dictate where they stay! They need to provide housing for the homeless! The global central and ginormous banks have access to Quadrillions of dollars!
@Automedon2
Жыл бұрын
Plus, the shoplifting is awesome.
@elizabethflores2778
Жыл бұрын
Homelessness people can go to shelters if they feel unsafe. The thing is there are rules to abide by in a shelter and most don’t want to abide. I took a homeless man in when I lived in Seattle. He gave me a good lesson on the topic. Most want the lifestyle. Many get monthly checks and have cell phones. I took him to get free clothes and food.
I like how it matters cuz its near rich people.
@milisntillano
Жыл бұрын
Fr
@paulholmaniii9691
Жыл бұрын
Xactly!!
@MB-yg6mb
Жыл бұрын
That's because it's the elite that only matters. DOWN WITH THE ELITE👎
@gelvang-cv6zp
Жыл бұрын
Yal should see north sac its thesame
@omary2158
Жыл бұрын
Don’t be so dramatic. There are tons of reports out there about homelessness in Los Ángeles
It's OK when the wealthy aren't effected by it and don't have to deal with it... But the minute it comes to their neighborhood, "something must be done". 🙄
@db-rc5fr
Жыл бұрын
Most of them are virtue signalers that vote for policies that create these situations.
@kevinbernatek7875
Жыл бұрын
In all fairness….it’s not their fault….and I would want something done about it, too, if it were getting close to my neighborhood.
@jonathanb4764
Жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure the non-wealthy want something done about it as well.
@DudeTastic13
Жыл бұрын
Keep voting democrats. It's a Democrats paradise here.
@lijie6431
Жыл бұрын
@@DudeTastic13 no one willingly votes democrat. The only reason is due to free entitlements from the government
Homeless ppl are not dumb. They parked their camp in Beverly Hills for a reason.
@rnettles6241
Жыл бұрын
There's divisions among the homeless too. These are the "upper class" homeless.
wealthy residents so "shocked" when it's part of their landscape but they couldn't care less when it's in someone else's neighborhood. Sickening!
Nothing will change until the wealthy and powerful are uncomfortable.
@starcatcher3691
Жыл бұрын
Nothing will change until Demicratic voters wake up!
@didforlove
Жыл бұрын
globally
@technicaldifficulties6392
Жыл бұрын
That is the absolute truth!
@eleonorahmartinez1852
Жыл бұрын
What will end homelessness? I can only imagine!😭😢🙈
@ARolls-dd2zd
Жыл бұрын
Why don't they provide some housing, cheap MFing hoarders, greedy people treating the poor and mentally ill like trash. Karma karma karma. "To whom much is given, much is to be expected. " The Holy Bible.
This warms my heart. The Beverly Hills peeps are about to get exactly what they voted for.
@arminiuszmazowszanin2670
Жыл бұрын
No one would vote for that.
Poor babies of Beverly Hills, now they will have to deal with the same issues the rest of us do.
@SeanD808
Жыл бұрын
No they won't because they have their own city with their own laws and they actually enforce them. They don't allow homeless camping.
@jonnym4670
Жыл бұрын
@@SeanD808 they will its hard to punish someone who has nothing its to like they have another place to go the rest the city is filling up thats why they are on the boarder about to break once that side gets filled it will flow onto the other side
@terrybarker9694
Жыл бұрын
The rich people aren't going to deal with anything it'll be dealt with just wait and see .
@didforlove
Жыл бұрын
@@SeanD808 everything is only a matter of time the poverty and inequality that has been going on for decades is going to explote in the wealthys faces
@83btm
Жыл бұрын
@@SeanD808 The point, was that they're surrounded by cities/municipalities that _do_ allow homeless camping. That's plenty sufficient to give any residents in the 902XX's a stroke.
Witnessing the fall of Babylon.
@thedrunkweddingphotographer
Жыл бұрын
100%
@cameronb3834
Жыл бұрын
US is a decaying empire brought on by high housing prices racism and wealth inequality and globalization.
@rawx485
Жыл бұрын
This place was never Babylon.
@Hboogie182
Жыл бұрын
Don't you mean Roman Empire?
@festyguy7405
Жыл бұрын
All by design
"Watch me do that and I'd go to jail" so true!
@thedemonyouknow
Жыл бұрын
I mean that's their home outside. So I guess go back inside and think about how your not in jail or on the street lol
@mikefinley4367
Жыл бұрын
True, at least fined. Look like you have money they would fine you for littering because they need the money to care for the homeless so they can do it.
@lokijordan
Жыл бұрын
@@thedemonyouknow He's not on the street because he's a business owner who contributes to city coffers by paying taxes, employing workers and paying his own rent. Oh, that and not defecating on the sidewalk. The part that ticks people off is that we have to pay for the behaviors of others who do not pay taxes, including watching property values plummet due to their presence and behaviors.
@dianecelento4974
Жыл бұрын
Damn straight.
@TrukNLife316
Жыл бұрын
I remember once we went to go walk at the LA alleys where they got all those stores and literally in daylight while people are driving and walking to shop a homeless lady started giving a homeless man a bj. Disgusting, exactly what this says. What someone who isn't homeless do that and immediately jail time. I get it they are homeless but doesn't mean they can do anything they want either.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 what happened to all compassion towards the " unhoused neighbors" 😂😂😂
@sandyrose2398
Жыл бұрын
it's all being encouraged.
@derred723
Жыл бұрын
ended in the 80s when Reagan cut socials services, and mental healthcare. Ended in the 80s when they made building new housing virtually impossible.
@KB-ke3fi
Жыл бұрын
@@derred723 Yeah like social services works now, huh?
@FearMongeringSells
Жыл бұрын
@@derred723 Exactly!
@SwedishGFE
Жыл бұрын
I would be more compassionate if they act like human beings suffering and accepted help and wanted help. When you keep trash around and live on top of it and then use the bathroom wherever then you lost my compassion.
1:29 100% he ain't wrong tho. go park your car overnight in that neighborhood or don't pay the parking meter and see what happens.
@NICKELS181
Жыл бұрын
So true!!!!!!
@tybarker5038
Жыл бұрын
Didn’t know cops go “oh, you’re homeless. No ticket for you, then!” I don’t think that’s how it works
@dianecelento4974
Жыл бұрын
@@tybarker5038 It pretty much does. They don't waste their time giving tickets to homeless because they won't pay and there isn't room in jails for them if they don't follow the rules.
@thedrunkweddingphotographer
Жыл бұрын
@@dianecelento4974 100%
@bucktooth002
Жыл бұрын
You could actually park your car overnight practically anywhere. & nothing would happen. Cops are actually compassionate.
So they would only do something if the homeless starts camping near wealthy neighborhood? Sickening world we're living in. People would only care about homeless problem if it occurs close to them.
@thedrunkweddingphotographer
Жыл бұрын
yes
@gofar12345
Жыл бұрын
NIMBY. Not in my backyard😁
@America1st69
Жыл бұрын
Don't worry there's gonna be many more homeless people added to the mix
@davidvasquez6398
Жыл бұрын
i came to say the exact same thing.
@sendthis9480
Жыл бұрын
I mean…rich people pay for most everything. What good does a poor person do for their community?!?
Great! Hopefully they will get to experience what the rest of the city does. Theres no exception for the influential 😜
@S2KV
Жыл бұрын
Those living in Beverly hills are the ones that voted for this, hope they enjoy it.
@TheFrenchPug
Жыл бұрын
You're spot on. They vote for this, and they can afford to support it.
@calikillz714
Жыл бұрын
👏🏽👏🏽
@vengeancewillbemine3440
Жыл бұрын
@@S2KV 😮wow stupid comment. Must one of those red vs blue clowns 🤡 who blame everything they don't like on yhe opposition parties they vote against 😂.
@bobbowie9350
Жыл бұрын
@PogChamp! believe it or not, the rich donates to both parties
WHAT THAT DUDE IS SAYING IS STRAIGHT FACTS! For example- when I was 16 my friends and I were at a public park... that closed at 10 pm... we all got cited for being there passed 10 and there were hella homeless people, who were definitely staying the night without incident. Kind of stupid to me.
@DrumWild
Жыл бұрын
Except he ignores the black homeless people. Being black was part of his point, and it was partially misguided due to his omission.
@sweetsongstress7398
Жыл бұрын
Turn on the sprinklers😂
@essieessie5399
Жыл бұрын
@@DrumWild hahahaha it's got nothing to do with color. Everything to do with the human freeloading cockroaches
@chuckruckus3648
Жыл бұрын
Not stupid, progressive. That’s you.
@TriforceOfTheGods80
Жыл бұрын
Dress like them then. 😮 Also smell like them too.
And the politicians do nothing about it!!!
@MB-yg6mb
Жыл бұрын
That's because they purposely allowed this to get out of hand. They are too busy lining their own pockets.
@crxsir121
Жыл бұрын
@@MB-yg6mb The Mayor of San Diego is more concerned about painting the crosswalks rainbow colors!!!🌈
@sandyrose2398
Жыл бұрын
They're the cause.
@hotnerd8428
Жыл бұрын
Newsom for you
@crxsir121
Жыл бұрын
@@hotnerd8428 🖕🏻Newscum
I left Los Angeles in 2017. I worked in Beverly Hills. It was never like this back then. This explains the large numbers of properties for lease and sale, even in Santa Monica. Very surreal. 😮😢
@SeanD808
Жыл бұрын
This is what happens when you elect Democrats who pander to social justice and change the laws to suit their beliefs... When will the citizens learn these people don't have their interests in mind?
@Mansikkacake
Жыл бұрын
Since 2020 lootings, fires in Los Angeles, things got crazier. so many homeless are pooping standing right next to our cars, knife fightings in the alley, and also so many tents everywhere even at the bank parking lot.
@SidewaysBurnouts
Жыл бұрын
hopefully property values go down.
@didforlove
Жыл бұрын
hunger game/snowpiercer society
@mambi74
Жыл бұрын
Yep. I left in 2018 and I went by this area frequently and to that mall and it wasn't like this. Keep up the great work LA!
this encampment has always been here, but it’s been absolutely insane lately.
@TheFrenchPug
Жыл бұрын
Good for them. The neighbors should go hand out some cold, hard cash to them.
@Jwiznat
Жыл бұрын
@@TheFrenchPug that’s just lazy. they should buy the heroin and offer an array of smoke/injection choices.
@mizzury54
Жыл бұрын
It's simply not true that it has always been there.
@Jwiznat
Жыл бұрын
@@mizzury54 not this bad. the last month it’s grown x5
@livefree2881
Жыл бұрын
OC has bums and encampments near freeway on-ramps,outta control 😂😢😮🤦♂️
When you leave your $10 million mansion in your $250,000 luxury car, please don't look down and see the poor.
@HanzotheRazor
Жыл бұрын
@Cj That is an extraordinarily perceptive and insightful observation. How was it that you were able to find the solution so quickly?
@bucktooth002
Жыл бұрын
Its really sad for homeless people, I once knew a bum, he was mentally crazy. Must've been from concussions from football.
@aishariel9924
Жыл бұрын
@Cj-zs4luthe reasons for homelessness is gentrification. The more expensive homes are the more likely you will have homeless people in your city. LA has one of the highest numbers of homelessness because it’s almost impossible for regular folks to afford a living there. Regular native LA residents.
@paraconsistentjojo
Жыл бұрын
“If you want to live in a clean, safe, functional society and you’re not poor, then you’re a bad person.” Idiot
@zesolodar
Жыл бұрын
@@aishariel9924 thats a load of bs. the reason is because most of them dont want to work and stay of drugs. i work with government housing organizations and guess what the ones who work and get clean get approved get vouchers and are off the street the ones who dont well see video above. ill never forget i work in construction saw a homeless guy at lowes asked me for money. i told him i wont give him money but what i will do is i have a garage that needs to be cleaned out if you do it ill pay you the same rate as i would pay my normal guys to do which is a few hundred bucks and he said no. he had a meal and at least a cheap hotel room for a few days and he rejected it. there are plenty of places they can live, plenty of programs for them if they get clean and work but they chose not to. like i said i deal with homeless people in a year then you do in your life. i live in one of the most expensive areas in my city and guess what? no homeless people. where i moved from in a dif state lived a mile away from where all the 1 million plus houses were which was expensive for the city, no homeless people. so that where expensive houses is is a load of crap just like the rest of your comment. the reason La has one of the highest homeless rates is because your cities cost of living, and this is not home prices but taxes, cost of gas ect are outrageously high compared to other places
Nobody answers the phone for any LA County agency that you call! It's frustrating!
@sandyrose2398
Жыл бұрын
They're on vacation.
@bluebonbon22
Жыл бұрын
Nobody answers-ever! Going on 3 years of don't answer the phones!
and this is why vagrancy and or camping on city streets should never have been allowed
@jonnym4670
Жыл бұрын
yea where are they going to go most places have fields or places they can hideaway but La is so developed any place they can is already filled thats why they are on the sidewalks
@debbiej10101
Жыл бұрын
they are on the sidewalks because it's been allowed and now, they are taking full advantage because they know they are pretty much let to do anything they want
This isn't just happening in Beverly Hills or Los Angeles. It's been getting worse for decades.
@didforlove
Жыл бұрын
global this is due to the majority of wealth in a few hands inflation inequality poverty no savings no opportunity are rampant combine that with overpopulation from the 20th century and its a recipe for disaster and this is only getting started
high property taxes and high crime rate, that's why you move to Beverly Hills and not Hollywood Hills.
@America1st69
Жыл бұрын
That's why so many people are leaving Crapfornia
They said California’s the place you ought to be so they loaded up their carts and moved to BEVERLY. Hills that is. Swimming pools, movie stars…
@SeanD808
Жыл бұрын
The clampets wouldn't allow no homeless camping...
@KB-ke3fi
Жыл бұрын
@@SeanD808 They'd all be looking for Elly Mae anyway.
This must be terrifying to everyone living there (in homes).
I'd feel different about encampments if the residents made any sort of attempt to keep the space clean.
@shahab814
Жыл бұрын
That's what I was thinking, at least keep it clean, don't leave tons of trash around it.
@bellagirlgirl8827
Жыл бұрын
In theory I totally agree with you -- keep it clean. But I bet there aren't any trash bins or trash collection service or toilets in that area bc if the city starts providing those things then the homeless encampment achieves legitimacy and the situation grows even more outta control. Legitimacy bestows entitlement and rights to squatters that don't pay property taxes -- they become the tail wagging the dog.
@bucktooth002
Жыл бұрын
Thier objective is to make everything dirty.
@sonnythebigdummy6151
Жыл бұрын
I have to agree with you. I don't mind the encampments at all but just help keep the neighborhood clean at least
@rawx485
Жыл бұрын
The lady in the tent up the street sweeps her area up every day. I saw 1 other guy cleaning leaves out of the gutters on the street. But thats just 2 out of hundreds in my area.
Thank you Gavin!! God knows how many people signed for recall and yet you managed to still be the Governor 😊
@ETube37
Жыл бұрын
Soon to be president of all the states if they can keep their covid voting policies in place.
@terrybarker9694
Жыл бұрын
It was rigid Commiefornia .
@LOLman21213
Жыл бұрын
he's being installed as president by 2032 no matter what.
@guerralg63
Жыл бұрын
Fraud! Election fraud is entrenched in California and now in the general election for president as well.
@eleonorahmartinez1852
Жыл бұрын
What's the politcal solution to end homelessness in CA. ? The homeless should run for political positions, like Al Sharpton did for Blacks on MSNBC. Why are the homeless excluded,equality equity, inclusion, all lives matter!😭😢 National Association for the Advancement of homeless outcasts!
His right, it's one thing to have a tent up, but these people have tons of trash around their tents.
@Surferdude965
Жыл бұрын
And pee and 💩
I sure hope that study works out!
@TheRbruin10
Жыл бұрын
We don't need bogus "studies" we need ACTIONS and RESULTS. This so called "studying" the problem is just stalling
But the common people that have to deal with this every day, but I forgot the common people don’t matter as long as they pay their taxes they don’t want to hear from them they can see the crisis they can live in the filth, but the elites don’t want to see it can’t make this stuff up even if you tried🤯
The people on the streets don't want help, They want to do what they want and that's absolutely nothing.
@samhain3824
Жыл бұрын
Good for them
@livefree2881
Жыл бұрын
Pretty much,I work grave shift security,drugs and sleeping in boxes is freedom 😂
@jas-n-motion
Жыл бұрын
@@livefree2881 yep
@MB-yg6mb
Жыл бұрын
I lived in Hollywood for 5 years and the homeless ppl like their life like this. They told me many stories of how they ended up homeless and prefer life this way.
@livefree2881
Жыл бұрын
@@MB-yg6mb yah so true and sad stories that drugs and freedoms has taken over 😩
When I was a kid in the 80s and 90s, Beverly Hills was a good city to live in. Very upscale! Now, it is starting to look like trash. What a damn shame!
This is Called “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” this makes Los Angeles humble and I’m Proud of Bass and Newsom for keeping Los Angeles Unified!
@Cal3000
Жыл бұрын
Please explain how those 3 ideals contribute to this.
@db-rc5fr
Жыл бұрын
Most of the people in Beverly Hills vote for the party that embraces DEI.
@EvRyDayCarry
Жыл бұрын
@@Cal3000 diversity because it makes LA authentic to have tents on the streets instead of looking like boring suburbs , Equity because it brings Jobs for minorities like LAHSA Does, Inclusion because it provides Everyone Access to funds while being homeless
@Cal3000
Жыл бұрын
@@EvRyDayCarry What you just explained has nothing to do with homelessness.
I am ashamed to admit, that I have been getting a celebrity gossip type magazine for a few years now. However, if there's one interesting constant in the articles, it's the ones that show all the celebrities moving out of their Hollywood and similar areas "fancy homes". Previously, the stories would show photos of the homes they were about to move into. But now, those same stories show the homes they are moving OUT of. It just shows that even the celebrities are moving away from specific areas and moving far inland to begin again. How so much has changed over the past few years. There is zero denying that the West is on a complete meltdown, and perhaps by design, society IS on a complete reset. Looking at Europe, and it doesn't take a scientist to see how changes are also being pushed into place. I don't know much, but there's definitely some very powerful minds behind all this. No longer with positive goals, but instead it's like a huge blanket of negativity has been draped across the Western world.
@chuckruckus3648
Жыл бұрын
It’s called Marxism aka progressivism same thing same results. National socialism democratic socialism aka communism they are the same.
This man is right. You and I can not do anything like that. I am 5 min over the time at the meter and I get a tickets. Good luck. More wasteful spending on some study the city will do.
"more luxury than business owners" These people don't have anything
@cameronb3834
Жыл бұрын
Even if they do have stuff it shouldn’t matter if they make money or not.
@venus5553
Жыл бұрын
I was living in my Rv , and no we don't have luxury . these people are so blessed they have no idea
@Lopezsokray_z
Жыл бұрын
They sure have a dope sack
This is nothing. At UC Berkeley the homeless enter the dorms, chase students with weapons, threaten students, and yet the campus police does NOTHING. The school tries so hard to downplay it, but their actions show they don’t care about the safety of students at all.
@sarahbaartmansrevenge
Жыл бұрын
wow, they’re entering dorms now? they used to just harass people on telegraph. and neither campus nor city police would do anything, smh
@s.tiaira9081
Жыл бұрын
Damn I was going to apply there…
That's where they should have moved to in the first place, the people living there are the reason it's gotten so bad
The poor rich people!!!
Seriously??? They have more ? They are sleeping on the streets . What taxes he’s talking about ?????we make 17$ an hour and rent is 2,500$ even in poor neighborhoods. Does he know that ?
Homelessness affect us all We need to stand together and find a long term solution
LA City council wants another Blue Ribbon committee study and Karen Bass, the first Black female mayor is a fish out of water. First Step - require all City council members and the mayor to drive through skid row (9th and San Pedro) every day on their way to City Hall.
@rawx485
Жыл бұрын
Walk through*
The homeless in Lancaster ca one guy killed a probation office in the next track from where I live. Its out of control.
LA really needs to start being more strict with their homeless….here in Pittsburgh, we literally just scoop the encampments off the areas that need it…we don’t care.
@dianecelento4974
Жыл бұрын
My parents live near Pittsburgh. I'm visiting them. I have never seen a tent anywhere.
@aznamoon1111
Жыл бұрын
You do realize that your mayor and other officials are the ones who are busing your homeless to Cali…
@86LukeM
Жыл бұрын
ACLU is the reason it's not permitted. They say the stuff is the homeless persons belongings and therefore can't take it. I live in riverside, which is south of Beverly Hills. Saw the city out cleaning up an encampment. Even saw law enforcement with code enforcement to talk a person who sleeps outside a furniture store. I do see at least in my town they do something.
@rawx485
Жыл бұрын
They have done that..... only to have them reappear within 72 hours. We have more than our fair share of homeless due to the inviting weather, and programs politicians try to push to make them more comfortable. They come from other states to be here.
@TheStreetAngel
Жыл бұрын
That is heartless. Imagine the government just scooping away all of your stuff in one swift movement
I’m happy more California neighborhoods are becoming more diverse!
Some of those homeless are local, but there is more and more data that indicates states are shipping their homeless to the West Coast because they can't be bothered to deal with their own. Then they turn around and blame these states for having such a huge homeless problem.
@bpxl53yewz29
Жыл бұрын
It’s true. It’s the hospitals in the red states sending them to CA.
@jonnym4670
Жыл бұрын
part of its that but that isnt over 50% of it with avg rent being $2,950 in ca and higher in LA that's the problem even if you work 40 hours its still not enough just to pay rent I moved to AL from LA a lot less homeless here but people are less likely to become homeless even the ones with problems $400 will get you a place and 30% of your paycheck is a lot better than 120% it makes working living and being part of the system worth it again
They need a "study" to figure out that a lot of these individuals have drug addiction or mental health issues. I'm sure a few are just plane lazy but the majority can't hold down a job.
@sunnytheboxer.
Жыл бұрын
Not everyone else’s obligation to deal with it. People are weak minded by choice. I can act crazy too It’s all just an act.
@bridgetsmith9748
Жыл бұрын
@@sunnytheboxer. You're right. It shouldn't be everyone else's obligation. But these folks are camping right outside homes and businesses. So unfortunately, it makes it everyone's problem to deal with.
It's L.A metro; they give free rides to these ppl. They infest out here b/c it isn't as crowded as L.A. They have been infesting the suburbs. I called the police homeless division; I was told ' unless the encampment is blocking the sidewalk they can't ask for them to move.'
Welcome to our new normal, everyone! If this is not happening right now in your neighborhood, get ready cos' it's on its way! I have lived in Brentwood, CA (West LA) for many years and our streets are drowning with the homeless defecating all over, smoking their crack pipes in front of businesses, rolling joints freely while sitting at bus stops, and mile high junk/trash stacked up blocking sidewalks. I witness completely mentally insane people walking all over talking and screaming at out into the ethers - and sometimes they swing metal poles, baseball bats, and sledgehammers (yes, I've seen all three). I started to see dump trucks coming by, but the encampments came back within a few days. It's utterly ridiculous and disgusting. MANY (not all) of the homeless today are not like the homeless population from 10-15 years ago. MANY (again, not all of them) are hooked on fetanyl and carry an aggresive and entitled mentality that they can do whatever they want, wherever they want, and steal from whomever they want. This **IS NOT** a housing crisis - this is mental health and drug addiction crisis and unfortunately I don't think we've seen the worst of it yet. Be prepared for what is to come. A few years ago a man indecently exposed himself as I was walking by and started masturbating while looking at me. I called the cops to create a police report, but I still see him walking and sleeping all over the area. I literally don't ever leave my home after the sun goes down because I don't feel safe. I bump into them nearly every.single.time I leave my home during the day. I have spoken to other neighbors who have been witnessing what is happening and we're all quite traumatized by what we now have to live in. We feel like we are being forced to live and share space with an unregulated insane asylum.
@JustMe-gs9xi
Жыл бұрын
yep,,, mental health with street drugs. 10-15 yrs. ago is when they closed State Mental Hospitals, and put the mental patients out. They were there for a reason, so you got them out there,, and the new mental patients that have no State Hospital to be Committed to. (they claim it was against people human rights to keep em in a mental hospital). An easy way to reclaim those buildings and take another expense off their books. So, yeah you can't go out at night almost anywhere now. the only choice is to stay, carry something for your safety (pepper spray or, become a responsible gun owner --- with Training,, you need training, ). If you own a gun, the goal is to never Have to use it. (but be trained and calm),,, you train for the day you Might have to, to save a life. Of course, you can also get a baseball bat (a good solid one),, keep it near your bed. Your in a freakin warzone over there,,,,,, the only other choice is to move,, buy a old house for a good price somewhre descent. and make it safe have a garden and fix it up like a cozy old days kind of life. -- we're in the end times. CA is like a foreign country. i lived there,,, if you don't move,,, at least know where your headed if SHTF. Get a good vehicle you could potentially sleep in if things got that bad,,, and you had to flee.. Im a prepper, tryin to help.
@ARolls-dd2zd
Жыл бұрын
You feel that way probably because it's true.
Karen bass got to clear up Alvarado street first so yeah back of the line Beverly Hills
Moved them from venice..... to San Vicente. Disgusting. The man is correct. We do that we go to jail.
As long as they continue to identify it as a "homeless" problem they're not working on solving it. Real estate developers have a huge lobby in the state and city of Los Angeles. Proposal to provide housing are as high a $800,000 + per home. There's $$$$ for both politicians and developers in building overpriced housing, but NOT in drug rehabilitation. Housing in downtown has turned into unlivable dwelling because they're drug addicts, many with mental disorders and they steal to support the habit. Every single news person knows this, but the muzzle of silence is firmly on their mouths. The city of Los Angeles has NO plan nor intent to address DRUG ADDICTION.
@bluebonbon22
Жыл бұрын
Drugs are mostly imported from other countries, check on who and how drugs are supplied to so many.... that's the story. Why and how and who is getting rich from the drug trade?
@surviveunplugged
Жыл бұрын
@@bluebonbon22 Huge point. Missed that one👍
yes, we're moving on up!
@MB-yg6mb
Жыл бұрын
And it ain't to the east side apartment in the sky...that's for sure!
I'am used to seeing this in my city and know its not ever going to go away. But what bothers me is at least keep you tent area clean!!!! you dont need a damn dinning room table and garbage scattered all over the place making matters worse !!!! I guess we just have to deal with it being the way things are now.
@mizzury54
Жыл бұрын
IN the past we had a few homeless that we saw roaming around during the day . We never saw where they slept. Now they have all their belongings ( and pure junk ) out for all to see.
@levondarratt787
Жыл бұрын
they are building their house...it was always like that. Settlers settle..and build.... medieval times already....tents become permanent...
@bucktooth002
Жыл бұрын
I just hope they find jobs.
@jonnym4670
Жыл бұрын
people who live on the street don't not only not have access to things like trash cans but they don't have the organizational skills to live a normal life plus its hard to find the motivation to be neat when you haven't been able to shower for a week and have all but given up on life
@brantime90210
Жыл бұрын
@jonnym what's your address? I will tell them to move into your neighborhood. Since you arnt bothered by it.
The "rich" should not be immune. This is a collective crisis.
I am from New York, and they would not let those tents sit for two days on the streets. I don’t know why California allows homeless people to do that, but at least in New York? You have to stick your tent in the woods or something
@SeanD808
Жыл бұрын
It's this weird woke virus that's making people destroy their own environment... We will have equality with the homeless people...
@rollinia7770
Жыл бұрын
Homeless living in the trees house like the good old day.
We need to make it illegal for homeless to camp on government property... otherwise we don't have a legal measure to remove the encampments. I would love to see the homeless set up encammpments near G. Newsons home. Then maybe things would finally change.
@doviebarton417
Жыл бұрын
@@OriginalJohnDoeFakersBeware EXACTLY!! Homeless people have not ALWAYS been homeless...most have worked and paid taxes before whatever hindered them happened ...people act like it couldnt happen to them or someone they love but it absolutely could!! the problem has been no one has wanted to talk about it until it starts getting too close to THEIR home!! Then its a problem!! Thats where they should camp out...in front of the legislative offices of our leaders then maybe some one would do something!!
@samhain3824
Жыл бұрын
Government property?
Beverly Hills! That's where I wanna B 🎵🎶
@emigdionunez668
Жыл бұрын
Livin' in Beverly Hills
We have a derelict RV around the corner that several homeless are living in . There is junk all around it . The registration has been expired for 2 years. There are numerous street sweeping tickets on the windshield. Yet if I parked a car on the street with expired registration , it would get ticketed and towed in no time. We are sick of this crap and want this disaster addressed aggressively. We are all being held hostage by "activists". Down the block there is a home for sale . There is a growing homeless encampment in the alley behind it. Who is going to see that and buy that house listed for $1.2 million?
@tybarker5038
Жыл бұрын
It’s ridiculous that these homeowners are asking so much!! I hope property values plummet so the homeless can finally afford a home. I think we’re about there. We’re hitting a breaking point. Real estate greed and homelessness on this scale is simply unsustainable. When does it stop going up?
@bucktooth002
Жыл бұрын
I'll make a offer for 200k.
@LOLman21213
Жыл бұрын
Fun Fact: LA won't tow any vehicle that looks like someone is living in it.. bedding etc. Saw Parking Enforcement joking with a homeless guy who has parked a trashy RV and a van next to each other. He's been there for 5 months, doesn't move it for street cleaning or nothing. The city is a complete joke
One problem with the homelessness is people coming to California from other states..if a homeless person has moved to California within the last 5 yrs and it is found he or she was bought to California for drug rehab, the rehab that paid for them to come here should pay for them to go back to the state they came from. This is a bigger problem than everybody wants to admit. Drug rehabs lore people to the state and then once the money runs out they kick him out on the streets. Then there they are homeless living on the streets. Send them back to the states they came from
@shavenyak1
Жыл бұрын
They don't only come here because of the rehab programs, they come here because hard drugs are misdemeanors and are no longer prosecuted. In most states meth and heroin are felonies where they will do significant jail time. Those states/counties/cities have been exporting their homeless addicts via free bus tickets to CA. "Go to prison or go to CA and smoke all the meth you want and get EBT."
@bigmacfullerton7870
Жыл бұрын
It’s also the weather. If you are homeless SoCal is the place to be. No snow or freezing temps. And the far left rule doesn’t hurt either. They are allowed to do whatever they want
@MYG79X
Жыл бұрын
Or how bout securing out a plot of land & have them all move there? Either way you look at it this issue won't get resolved. Where I live, the homeless live in the woods. They made an arrangement with them. I see them panhandle at the local grocery store plaza at certain times but never see campsites on the sidewalks or trash everywhere
@aznamoon1111
Жыл бұрын
Yup, and other cities just put their homeless on a one way bus to Cali
@behindyou8308
Жыл бұрын
I know HB and other beach cities are busing them to San Diego
Keep up the good work, Gavin!
Proud of the citizen voting for their council members
As soon as the eviction moratorium ended, homeless tents have popped-up on every block of my neighborhood in North Hollywood. There are NO decent paying jobs for people.
@adventuresinthebay8487
Жыл бұрын
Plenty of jobs…Homeless either are drug addicted or don’t want to work.
Weather plays one of the biggest roles, it’s never hot or never too old, everywhere else, heat exhaustion or they would freeze from the snow
@jordanslingluff287
Жыл бұрын
No it's cause California gives them free stuff and they are above the law. It ain't no where near this bad anywhere else except areas that do lots of handouts. Florida is awful nice. They don't have bums and junkies on every corner in tents.
@theotheleo6830
Жыл бұрын
Also, CA welfare benefits are among the highest in the nation.
@cosmo9390
Жыл бұрын
Actually the biggest problem is that California is way too expensive and people can't afford housing. Weather has absolutely nothing to do with this.
@jordanslingluff287
Жыл бұрын
@@cosmo9390 No man. People arent junkies because things are to expensive. That's why 90% of these people are on the streets. People with jobs in between places are couch surfing, in hotels or living in cars.
@KB-ke3fi
Жыл бұрын
It just snowed there for a month.
LA has lost its dignity A LONG time ago
@allisonle8596
Жыл бұрын
Due to the vast amount of illegal immigrants
🤣 it's a luxury to litter? I never knew
Just because someone doesn’t make any money doesn’t mean they can’t have stuff or luxuries. It could be stuff accumulated over a long period of time.
@bucktooth002
Жыл бұрын
All stolen.
@Xyz46786
Жыл бұрын
Lmao 🤣
I love it everytime rich people have to drive by homeless people in there warm cars
How many vacate buildings does the city or county own? Start relocating the homelessness there!!! All these city officials apparently can’t or won’t do their job. It’s unbelievable!!!
"This is America" - Childish Gambino
Yes, please pay for more multi-million dollar studies
@JustMe-gs9xi
Жыл бұрын
F' that. no offense to you dude.
@jb.8992
Жыл бұрын
@@JustMe-gs9xi I was being sarcastic!
correct! only taxpayers are forced to obey the law! when they can't take anything from you they don't enforce the law!
How did this particular L.A. homeless encampment make the news, while the others in the same city didn't? Poor rich people...
So what!!!! Now its uncomfortable!!!!! Welcome to the rest of America !!!
Many encampments need to be in beverly hills, after all the affluent could help provide meals, showers, the use of the bathroom, even the pool out back -
@janeentumbao8690
Жыл бұрын
I agree! Alot of people complain that the city lacks the funds. There's no lack of nothing in Beverly Hills! Y'all come down from y'alls high horses and take that botox and lipo money and help get the homeless housed!
I'm sorry they're not going to do anything because they too busy spending money on unnecessary things instead of helping these homeless people get off of the street
Let’s put more money into the Military and continue to ignore the health and mental health issues in this sad country.
@rawx485
Жыл бұрын
Money wont help unless we are willing to violate their rights. Locking them up in institutions until they are better. Right now, they are free to be F'd in the head, defecate in public, abuse drugs and alcohol, and our justice system will do nothing, even when it directly impacts citizens. Until we start locking them up for the purpose of getting sober, and treating their illnesses..... money wont matter.
@SeanD808
Жыл бұрын
It's sad how the government is enabling these people to destroy their lives through drug abuse. That's the really disgusting crime going on here.
Whatever happened to “love thy neighbor” ?
@LOLman21213
Жыл бұрын
what happened to "thy won't attempt to unscrew Ring camera after multiple thefts from side of building"?
If you want get rid of the homeless problem enforce the laws. This is littering on a massive scale. The reason Ca looks like a warzone is because of the homeless population. Just jail all of them if they don't want go to a homeless center for help.
@bluebonbon22
Жыл бұрын
So your solution for a lack of living rate wages and affordable rent is to jail people? How stupid is that? Come up with better solutions?
It wouldn't be safe, living next to a busy road in a tent. js
@ericlanda3727
Жыл бұрын
No rent no bills, looks like for them that’s a small price to pay.
@donnasloane9031
Жыл бұрын
Safety is the least of their problems
Right. The unhoused people have "luxuries" like being able to litter. I love how no one mentions the obvious issue of vacant luxury apartments in the backdrop of people living on the streets.
@rawx485
Жыл бұрын
Why should the person paying a ton of $$$ in Apartment A, have to live next to a trash loving druggie paying no rent in Apartment B?
@zesolodar
Жыл бұрын
Vacant? and you know what the occupancy rate is how exactly/
@Tiedyesweatpants
Жыл бұрын
"With more than 36,000 unhoused residents, Los Angeles simultaneously has over 93,000 units sitting vacant, nearly half of which are withheld from the housing market. Thousands of luxury units across the city are empty, owned as second homes or pure investments.Sep 14, 2020"
Belongings ? It's mostly junk. The city has a program called Care Plus. They post warning a week before with an are highlighted to clean. The homeless move all of their crap outside the cleaning zone , then move it right back after the cleaning. A few months later they do it again. It's completely useless and a waste of resources. It accomplishes nothing but harassment of the homeless. A nearby school that had a large encampment within the ordinance restricted area was finally cleaned up and forced to move but only after the school officials threatened to go to the media . We are sick of this crap. These crews need to show up unannounced and give them 3O minutes to gather only personal belongings and one tent. The rest of this stuff is junk
Good let rich see this!!!
It was the same during the great depression.
@waynebrady7439
Жыл бұрын
Much worse now
@sherriegoodrich6931
Жыл бұрын
No huge drug problems - way back when
I agree with with that guy. if any of us does that we will be beat up then sent to jail
This inflation is killing everyone’s pockets
Could someone please send me a version of Weezer's "Beverly Hills, please?
@MB-yg6mb
Жыл бұрын
😆
Keep giving the homeless free benefits. There will continue to be bus loads full of them shipped from other states. Also keep giving them free clean needles and narcan so they can keep doing what they are doing.
@rawx485
Жыл бұрын
Narcan pisses me off more than most topics. Basically a free pass to repeatedly tie up our emergency response infrastructure. Sure, give everyone 1 dose, accidents happen. 2nd time? Nope..... just die.
@rollinia7770
Жыл бұрын
Follow the golden free roads ✨️
Crazy how people call living in a tent on a sidewalk a “luxury”… yeah, you try it and see how luxurious you feel. Homelessness sucks. Build more affordable housing.
In a few years, it'll be WORSE!
We’ve been having this problem, now it made the news cause of where it is. Maybe now they will do something about it
@rawx485
Жыл бұрын
Yeah they will clean up that particular encampment.
@rollinia7770
Жыл бұрын
Now, all the following homeless can reserve and relocate to better location in Beverly Hills must give a big hand to the media.
It’s out of control. I live in the San Fernando Valley CA those of you who doesn’t live in Cali. It’s in every city Beverly Hills is NOT the only upscale city in Los Angeles. We the people on the San Fernando valley is pretty traumatized too. It’s crazy how not one homeless person or encampment isn’t in Calabasas or porter ranch both upscale city’s. We need this to stop in LA county period.
@rawx485
Жыл бұрын
You dont see many in Valencia or Santa Clarita either. Places where sheriffs run things vz city police seem to have less issues.
@SeanD808
Жыл бұрын
Yeah well you voted for the wrong people so there you go..
@Blaccbarbs247
Жыл бұрын
@@SeanD808you don’t know me or who the hell I voted for Bro! So your little slick comments is not needed nor does it matter, you aiming for likes or what ?? This boy….lol
@Blaccbarbs247
Жыл бұрын
@@rawx485 oh hell ya 👏🏾
@starfireprincess
Жыл бұрын
How are you alive? I thought them Mexicans hated black people in that city and went around killing innocent black people for nothing 😢
Los Angeles needs to STOP & PREVENT rent from going up because it's to the point that you cannot live by yourself because rent is stupid expensive.
@rollinia7770
Жыл бұрын
Free room in Jail
Not spilling into "affluent neighborhoods!" Oh nooooo. The horror!
The more we see of this, the more clear it is that homelessness is an effect of a greater issue: mental health and substance (drug) abuse. It's hard to call it a homeless crisis; it's far more of a drug abuse crisis.
@rollinia7770
Жыл бұрын
Big Pharmacy make lot of people addicted to opioid addictions...
The solution is quite simple. We will help you get clean, help you start a new life and give you shelter but if you stay on the street, you go to jail. Period. L.A. and CA have the resources. Why the city/state has been ignoring the problem for so long is mystery. They think building low cost apartment buildings is the solution.
@davewhite9828
Жыл бұрын
Low cost ? Nothing is low cost. It would be subsidized by the taxpayers.
@mikeobii
Жыл бұрын
Exactly. These aren’t people who are struggling to make ends meet; they have no ends. They’re on drugs or mentally ill. Many of these people don’t want to go into shelters and while shelters may or may not need to do a better job at transitioning these people, it needs to be ILLEGAL to camp on our streets. It’s only a matter of time before city officials throughout the state are forced to clear these camps.
@theotheleo6830
Жыл бұрын
It's never simple. You can't simply jail people for being homeless. A judge ordered that LA cannot remove the homeless without offering them free housing. You can blame the judge, ACLU, and other homeless advocates for that.
@LOLman21213
Жыл бұрын
Newsom and the 100% democrat LA city council needs to point to "lower crime stats" to keep their criminal enterprise chugging along. Newsom will be installed as potus in 2032. No homeless will be going to jail.
Beverly hills pd will not let 1 tent get 1 inch inside 90210!! Trust me.... They will find a deep empty hole to house the homeless first
Now ALL of a sudden homelessness is a problem, ship them all to Newsoms neighborhood
The problem is rent being so damn high in Los Angeles
@damegto
Жыл бұрын
LOL cmon!!! Most of these homeless are drug addicts or have mental heath issues.
This is infuriating to me...I have been working diligently, day after day to get encampments out of my business' area in Chatsworth. The aggravating thing here is that suddenly, because encampments are now encroaching on Beverly Hills and "affluent" areas, it makes the news. Those in my area have been voicing these concerns for far too long. I would love to have KTLA meet with me to get some air time on what my area, District 12, has been experiencing for years. I have a letter out to Council Member Lee addressing these concerns and formally requesting a meeting. I have request after request in for homeless encampment removals, parking enforcement violations, sanitation violations and service requests. Again, I would absolutely love to get some coverage of our area KTLA...this is what we need to make a change
@Kermkermsadventures
Жыл бұрын
😂🤣 simple, sell your business, and move out to a different state, problem solved. 😂🥳🥳🥳🥳