Downtown Los Angeles Summit of the Americas Snarls Traffic, Exposes Embarrassing Dangers

REAL ESTATE NEWS ( Downtown Los Angeles, CA) — The Summit of Americas brings traffic, road closures to Downtown LA. Barricades, road closures and snarled traffic combine with homeless tent cities, an explosion of violent crime, skyrocketing fuel prices and runaway inflation. Amid all this, a convention center full of politicians.

President Biden promises to outline his vision for the future at this week’s Summit of the Americas here in LA, according to CBS. Not everyone is happy about this presidential visit to Downtown Los Angeles. Many will avoid being downtown this week because presidential motorcades cause many street closures, leading to massive gridlock in the city center. Street barricades are installed, positioned in front of the convention center where the summit will be. Unfortunately, Biden and global leaders will be coming and going, all week, shuttling and fro, leading to blocked streets and halted vehicles on many streets and freeways.

The Ninth Summit of Americas allows for important discussions of big issues, including immigration, human rights and climate change. Hopefully they will discuss how to stop the deadly flow of fentanyl into this country. This is the first time for the United States to host the summit since 1994. Apparently the president if Mexico is not going to show up because the U.S. has banned leaders of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. While it’s still not clear exactly which foreign leaders will be here, one thing is for sure — they’re be getting a gander of a Los Angeles that more closely resembles how poorer countries looked 40 years ago: homeless shanties and decaying infrastructure. It’s unlikely that many of the world leaders will be getting out to take a walk. It’s simply too dangerous. If they are not assaulted by mentally ill homeless, they might break their ankle in one of many holes in the sidewalks, where they could be electrocuted by exposed high power lines. If they survive that, they could be hit by miscellaneous stray bullets. The world leaders could be shocked by the smell of trash, rotting waste, urine and human excrement on the sidewalks.

Caltrans warns drivers to stay away from the areas between the 110, 10 and 101 freeways, and to avoid the 6th street avenue off ramps. On Tuesday, the voting booths in the same area present a possibility of conflicting traffic chaos between summit attendees, police, voters and workday commuters.

World leaders are also getting an up-close glimpse of the languishing symbol of communist China real estate crash, the development project ghost building called OceanWide Plaza. It’s right across the street from LA LIVE and the Crypto.com Arena. Also nearby are Flower Street Lofts, Ritz Carlton Residences, Ten50, Evo, Elleven, Luma and Metropolis condominium buildings.

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DTLA Skid Row Unsanitary Tent City Spreading a Plague of Its Own

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The sight of the tents of the homeless in DTLA is more than just unsightly. It is a red flag of worse things to come. Coronavirus is not the only plague LA needs to worry about. All sorts of rare and uncommon third world maladies are being spread among the unhoused across Los Angeles.

As the Loft Blog has reported several years ago, an L.A. Police detective was diagnosed with typhoid fever — a rare illness usually spread through contaminated water, as reported in the LA Times. At least five other officers who work in the same station also started showing symptoms of the sickness. The six cops work in the Central Division station, where an investigation into unsafe and unsanitary conditions led to $5,000 of fines. The division covers Skid Row and downtown LA — with the officers calling for the homeless encampments to be cleaned up to stop the spread of illness. Other cases in the area have seen cops diagnosed with hepatitis A and staph infections. It’s not just first responders who are at risk. An officer could take one of these illnesses home to his/her spouse and children.

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As reported last fall by the LA Times, government officials are putting more money than ever before into finding housing for the region’s homeless population.  Will it happen soon enough to save us from dire public health catastrophes? In the city of L.A. alone, Mayor Eric Garcetti is planning to spend nearly $1 billion to combat homelessness in the coming budget year, tapping huge new sources of state and federal aid, and finally ramping up construction of homes for the unhoused. NPR reports that only a regional solution will be effective. Cleaning up one encampment just pushes its occupants to move into a new location as seen in Venice Beach. #entarispowerful #DTLAHousing

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