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City of Los Angeles Cracks Down on Homeless Camps

Real Estate News: Outreach workers went tent to tent early this week with offers of homeless services as the city launched an unlawful crackdown on encampments around a new shelter in downtown Los Angeles.  In unending spasms and fits, social workers and LAPD delayed, started, stopped and then delayed again.  |  COMMENT

Downtown Los Angeles Homeless Camp Dismantling
Downtown Los Angeles Homeless Camp Dismantling

L.A. LOFT BLOG OPINION

The City of Los Angeles continues to foster a major problem with discrimination regarding law enforcement.  Laws are applied with tremendous unfairness, based not only on skin color, but particularly on appearance of income class. Against the wisdom of America’s founders, big cities like Los Angeles today continue a strong bias of “prince or pauper” treatment.  When it comes to law enforcement, the middle class generally receives mediocre enforcement or neglect, often with little or no law enforcement compared to other municipalities.  The wealthy and poor are singled out for special enforcement, delayed enforcement or no enforcement at all, which has deplorable consequences, and is utterly unconstitutional in the United States of America.  #dtla #homeless #tent

The LAPD even goes as far as creating a written bias designation for rich or famous individuals in their police report paperwork.  Los Angeles created Skid Row about 100 years ago when locals decided to ignore the constitution in an incorrect belief that the poor should not be treated equally under the law.  Laws have been skirted, including laws against urban camping, loitering,  littering, blocking sidewalks, trespassing, aggressive panhandling, traffic obstruction and J-walking. Many other laws have been wrongly tabled.  Homeless continue to be treated like animals who require no law enforcement.

Homeless need extra help. They don’t need to be neglected and they don’t need extra legal discrimination.  They need more counseling, housing and assistance from successful experts, caring citizens and private charities.  They do not want or need to be treated like feral animals.

Creating unconstitutional “special enforcement zones” for homeless is not the solution. It is the cause of the problem because it misallocates enforcement, violates human rights, violates the U.S. Constitution, delays law enforcement and misallocates funds.  Homeless persons deserve and require the same speedy, reliable law enforcement that wealthy and middle class should also receive. Wealthy, poor and middle class living under different laws is the definition of corruption and tyranny.  “Special Enforcement” is the opposite of the cure. This kind of zigzag, willy nilly haphazard enforcement is unconstitutional and extremely ineffective. Inconsistency and class prejudice are the root of the problem.

The homeless want prompt and equal protection. LAPD officers want new orders to begin applying the law fairly to everyone. Angelinos must stop allowing uneven, biased legal treatment of rich and poor. Only solid, consistent, unbiased enforcement is legal and effective.  The City of Los Angeles will eventually figure that out.  What do you think?  |  COMMENT

Many L.A. Loft Blog readers spend time and money to help the homeless, but prefer to stay clear of the homeless issues in their day-to-day lives. Some Loft Blog leaders don’t mind living near homeless shelters. Little Tokyo Lofts is right across the corner from low-income and homeless services.  Others prefer to live much further away from homeless shelters and tents.  Get a free list of upscale homes in Downtown Los Angeles.  Fill out the online form:

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Unfair and inconsistent law enforcement traps homeless in DTLA
Unfair and inconsistent law enforcement

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Downtown Los Angeles Typhus Outbreak

Rodents and their parasites have made the real estate news this week. Before we all go running away from Downtown Los Angeles out of a fear that we are going to catch typhoid fever, let’s take a closer look at how the typhus outbreak is happening.  Where is it coming from? Who has typhus? Where is it going? How to avoid it. #dtla #typhus #outbreak

Trash, rats and fleas cause typhus outbreak in Downtown Los Angeles
STOP THAT FLEA!  Trash, rats, fleas cause typhus outbreak in Downtown Los Angeles

Downtown L.A. is not the only place with typhus problems lately, but it is the most prominent.  About nine Downtowners have been diagnosed with the sickness caused by flea-related bacteria, but fortunately none of them have died because today’s antibiotics are very effective at killing  the blood-borne germs.  More than half of cases involve homeless persons and their homeless pets or nearby flea-ridden wild animals, such as rats.

As DTLA has large concentration of homeless in the trashy middle of the area near San Pedro and 6th Street, we can deduce that the areas further away from the center of Downtown are less likely to encounter typhus.  The residents who live in cleaner neighborhoods near the outer edges of Downtown LA are less likely to catch typhoid fever.

The cleaner, safer outer districts include: South Park, Bunker Hill, Financial District, Civic Center, Chinatown, Lincoln Heights, Wilshire by Downtown and the Arts District.  Bunker Hill Tower has almost no pets — only a few service animals.

Bunker Hill stands out as the Downtown district with the fewest homeless, with more natural barriers against infected animals.  Providing a more healthy, comfortable lifestyle in an upscale neighborhood by the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Broad Museum and Center Theatre Group, Bunker Hill area condominium buildings include: Bunker Hill Tower, Promenade and Promenade West.

From pests to legal troubles, all buildings in Downtown Los Angeles have issues that buyers should know about before taking a look in person.  Get a free report on lawsuits and litigation in Downtown Los Angeles lofts and condos.  Fill out the online form:

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