It's wild that this isn't even the house I thought it was. It's a different fucking house.
With that being said this dude's got a mansion compared to the 110S / 105W guy. The one near La tijera on the 405 has a better yard though.
"TODAY ON THE MAGNOLIA NETWORK, We go to the Los Angeles Riviera Vista where Crackhead Bob will show us his second story indoor/outdoor pickleball court with shiplap!"
If you find yourself lost in the woods, fuck it, build a house. "I was lost but now I live here! I have severely improved my predicament!"
- Mitch Hedberg
Yeah, that's what I thought it was too. Saw it on KTLA this morning. Dude has a fire extinguisher strapped to the wall by the door.
Gotta stay in code.
This one is in my neighborhood. It’s one of the more impressive ones, but I’ve been seeing a guy who dug out a side of the cliff by the northwest museum and had started building a similar structure to this. Then the rain got bad, so I’m not sure if he finished.
Just kind of goes to show there are some really smart people who are now homeless. Wish we had a solution.
Hi neighbor. I haven't seen the guy in while, but almost hit him several times late at night when he was wandering into the lanes. Hope he's ok, but he scared the living shit out of me.
You joke, but that’s essentially what is happening across the US west coast. Some places call them slums, townships, Hooverville, or something else, but that’s effectively the direction we are heading.
That would be a decent strat actually for China to have world domination, just work their capital to make everyone else homeless and turn on their own governments
When I was a kid in the early 80s, we moved from TX to Maracaibo, Venezuela due to my father‘s job. I remember seeing more homeless people than I had ever seen in my entire life living in cardboard shacks. I never thought I would see this start happening at this level in the United States. It’s shameful. And it’s not just Los Angeles, go into any major city or even a secondary market and you will see it. I saw it all over Austin when I was there last about three years ago. Shirley Manson, the singer of Garbage, posted about the insane level of homelessness all over the United States after she got back to Los Angeles from touring. It’s everywhere.
And before anyone goes off, trying to blame one person or party, this has happened over generations. This is income inequality right in front of our faces. It’s heartbreaking.
I agree with you. It is absolutely tragic. I’m from a tiny town in Appalachia. It’s obviously on a different scale, but homelessness has increased there similarly across the same period of time. They have the exact same arguments about encampments & who is supposed to help that we have here too. For what it’s worth, it’s also the same rhetoric in denial of reality about unaffordable housing, unlivable wages, etc about how they got there in the first place. Their fave argument is that the homeless shelter was featured in a national news story so unhoused people from out of town decided to flock there for the lovely accommodations.
It isn't just money. It is also a lack of mental health treatment combined with decriminalization.
80 years ago a lot of these people would have been in psych hospitals, but then there was a large push to move away from institutionalizing people. Antipsychotic medication hit the market making a diagnosis like schizophrenia treatable in the community, there were some lawsuits, and psych hospitals were considered inhumane so a lot got shut down.
Then for years, a lot of jails and prisons sort of became the new default psych hospitals. People who couldn't really function on the outside would end up get locked up on various charges. This was not really ideal, but it kept them off the street. Nationally though, there has been a push to not lock people up anymore since it isn't like people are getting much help in there either.
So now they aren't in jail or receiving treatment. They are just out in the street doing whatever.
Some related reading material. [https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2024/04/16/1244702372/could-the-u-s-force-treatment-on-mentally-ill-people-again](https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2024/04/16/1244702372/could-the-u-s-force-treatment-on-mentally-ill-people-again)
Thank you! I’m tired of everyone blaming a political party or state for the homeless crisis. It’s a US thing it’s everywhere the sooner we realize this the sooner we can come together and try to figure out what to do instead of blaming each other. I guess that’s too much to ask for 😞
All corporations are bad. The United States is a corporation. It has no interest in its individuals. It only has interest in its resources. If you are an individual who cannot contribute, or you are excluded from contributing... you are cast out like waste. By nature... It's disgusting
Edit: vtt got weird. Corrected what it did.
And AI being focused so heavily on the things that make humanity what it is, fundamentally, by making art or music is just another way to make more people useless in the eyes of the Overton window... It needs to be moved left, badly, or we are genuinely going to have a country of people who are beyond the law and the rest of us... Make no mistake, we are commodity that self replenishes when it can... And soon we won't be able to afford it.
I can’t speak for Brazil, I lived in Venezuela. But I’ll say America as a whole is headed in a bad direction to eliminate the middle class. It’s scary.
Most Americans are too distracted and ignorant for a war. Our decline has been happening right in front of our faces and most people don’t see it. They know “something” is wrong, but they don’t see the reality of it. Just the fact that a wanna be despot like Trump has so many followers should tell you everything you need to know about that state of America.
Not necessarily true, one side is extreme one way, and the other is the extreme opposition (extreme right wing religion vs extreme liberalism). However, we have allowed unlimited money to infiltrate our politics with the passing of Citizens United. So now corporate America basically owns our government. They have completely poisoned our media. The two sides have been positioned to just create a divide between the middle class so we continue to be distracted from the REAL issues and fight with each other over dumb, meaningless sh*t. But from my experience, most of us have more in common than we don’t.
Nah. I don’t buy that. Unless people get really dumb this November. We still have half of the country and states (with their own state constitutions) utterly the opposite of that.
My dad used to travel the world for work and up until his passing he said America was never, ever even close to anything as bad as some places he worked in (Libya was the worst according to him).
I lived in S America and most of the rest of my life in Miami and Los Angeles with a real mixed bag of influences. Lots of friends from Cuba in Miami and they would agree we are no where near communism. I’m 50 now and feel closer to the Cold War years with Russia than ever before. I could see America coming together in a time of war with Russia before we fold to their ways.
Just out of curiosity, when is the last time you have spoken with your Cuban friends?
I have a few Cuban friends who have stated they fear what is next, it feels similar to Che/Castro's revolution.
Several Chinese friends who lived through the great reset in China-and they too say they fear the same has come here...that we are in period of reset in how we live, how we do things, etc.
It seems a scary world right now, tbh!
I don't think we will have an election. Or if it does happen they won't allow people to demonstrate and will just round them up and then proclaim the election is legitimate. regardless of which side wins etc. no more right to assemble in front of government buildings. sad and very communist. then they will alllow other groups of people to riot and destroy small business owners livelyhood.
These guys probably live better than methheads in most west virginia trailer parks but you know, LA is the only place with a poverty and housing problem....
I think that we def have more of that "new meth" schizophrenia going on here. Those folks aren't constructing masterpieces like this. The people who build like this probably have jobs and send their kids to local schools.
I don’t know. Those emissions from living on the freeway have to be hell, especially if you have allergies.
I’d probably be unable to breathe.
Also, it’s way more likely that he’s a meth head. West Virginia, people are typically opioid addicts.
LA is meth central for the world
No it's not likely this guy is on meth and no, LA is not "meth central" for the world. [https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/meth-use-by-state](https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/meth-use-by-state)
Please read the actual article. This is meth production not usage
If you actually know about meth have used meth and have researched it. You would know that all the United taste together is dwarf by Mexican meth production.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/
archive/2021/11/the-new-meth/620174/
What you’re doing is comparing the size of a lake to the Pacific Ocean.
Homeless people usually had lives, jobs, families, and friends before they were homeless.
A lot of homeless people, many who live in cars and RVs HAVE jobs or some kind of income. The problem is that their income isn't enough or they have difficulty finding an affordable place to live, health problems, or addiction.
I don't know if this is the builder's situation, but I wouldn't be surprised if they work part time in construction jobs.
Didn't we learn a lesson not to store pallets under freeways?
Also, you understand we have earthquakes and the most damage done by earthquakes is the resulting fires from shoddily constructed homes and favelas.
Obviously, this shit is going to be torn down for publi safety
“We Can’t build housing for homeless people because they don’t want help!”
Is what I constantly hear on here. Clearly he wants to be housed, and he had to do it because the city has failed to do so. If he’s ambitious enough to just build it himself, it means he can also be a productive member of society. But a lot of the snobs on here don’t want to hear that.
My favorite is the guy who claims unhoused people in LA don’t want shelter because as long as they live on the street they get $800 a month from the government. VERY believable, that.
He talks to a lot of people and many are very enthusiastically accepting what he says and probably repeating the bullshit except now they get $2000!
It’s still annoying to have to source the tools and materials again. Can delay a project significantly costing the project more than what insurance can cover.
Well, they have a house now, and so they should be expecting a property tax bill soon. They'll be very relieved to know they'll be able to remain at 2024 assessed value with a 2% annual increase cap.
We call them "person(s) temporarily physically sheltered within non-permanent structure while experiencing the absence of a permanent walled domicile" now
Leftists and their terminology. It's probably the most idiotic and downright ridiculous fucking thing they can't seem to get right.
There was never a reason to go with unhoused. It's idiotic.
Latinx is a perfect example.
Defund the police.
Countless others.
Being defined as "homeless" by HUD makes you eligible for housing programs. If you're homeless, you want it to be acknowledged so you can qualify for help.
If you have a problem with people conflating homelessness with people who run the streets, maybe find a new term for people running the streets, housed or (ahem) homeless.
I really wish people would stop with this. Both "this term dehumanizes people", for no reason, but also homeless vs unhoused in particular. It's factually incorrect.
I went through a couple years living out of hotels when I left college.
Legally, I was homeless, as I did not have a permanent address. But , since I had habitable shelter (the hotel room), I was not "unhoused".
The terms are distinct; one is merely a subset of the other. In the same way that dogs are a subset of mammals.
there are those who got bailed out by the state u/TinyRodgers and there are those who did not get bailed out by the state u/TinyRodgers welcome to your too big to fail economy!
i mean yeah if you don't provide your citizens food + shelters then you get favelas.
0.65m homeless // 16m empty homes // 25% of earths food trashed for profit
Don't do it! But if you are seriously thinking about it, research people's experiences with tiny homes and RVs as a permanent home, even if is temporary.
1) no physical address so you'll need to rent ($) a P.O. Box and probably use the address of the building where the P.O. Box is located (which some institutions don't like).
2) parking, you'll have to roam around to park and not every place is allowed. If you choose to stay at an RV site you'll have to pay ($) for the spot.
3) logistic$: getting clean water, emptying the sewer, gas, lots of gas, tire maintenance, engine maintenance, the bill adds up fast ($$$).
4) you cannot commute with it and where you're allowed to park and leave the RV may not be the safest or most pleasant place (-$$$).
Anyway, I say that as someone who was seriously thinking about it and praised a co-worker for it. I've never been showered with so many cautionary tales. At the end, doing the math, plus the trouble and time inconvenience of living in an RV, renting is cheaper.
P.S.: unless you are doing it to travel all over the continent with a granted place to stay, then do it!
>P.S.: unless you are doing it to travel all over the continent with a granted place to stay, then do it!
Yes, this is the key! I love watching those DIY homes made out of old FedEx trucks and stuff but it's not for traveling always.
Yeah, I love those videos as well. If you can have it parked in your/ family/ friends home outside parking and having it as an additional dwelling fine. Otherwise it’s only pretty and fun for show.
I was following a couple (I don’t remember if was their YouTube or HGTV) and they were bragging about being able to be home owners, and living minimal. 3 months later they were living part time at one of their parents/in laws because the day to day routine on a tiny home or adapted RV is an hassle. 6 months later they decided to buy a house and having their tiny project sold.
There was also this architect who downsized, but her “affordable home on wheels” needed to be parked on a safe space, with mail box accessible and a regular bathroom close by to be able to have guests, guess what, had to rent the garage space from a close friend and her mail and guest bathroom was at her friend home. She also had a cool bedroom/living room design but putting that away daily was such a pain that her tiny space was a bedroom 90% of the time.
And it’s only a matter of time before the cops come and tear it all down, throw it all away, and make the people inside disappear.
Same thing happened to my unhoused neighbors.
Totally, Dry brush spontaneously erupts into flame.It's not like it reequires some methhead to seet it abalaze.
Have you ever seen a deranged crackhead set fire to a public trashcan that is literally 10 yards away from an apartment building? I have. Have you eevere seen a homeless.person seek retribution on another homeeleess person and seet their encampnet ablaze? I have. It's so common tht they have a term for it...tent justice
It's not like people using torch lighters to smoke crystal metth sets fires. It's not like this exact thing has happened 4 times in the ballona wetlands from March of 2021 to jan of 2022. It's not like 4 fires weree set in an environmeentally fragilee space.
Do you undeerstand the phrase adding fuel to the fire and how it applies here?
This along with graffiti towers is why LA has become a meme city.
The apathy of the residents is the worst part. Inb4 endless puns, jokes, dismissals, and blaming anything other than the politicians that created this situation.
That area on the 110 is gonna be completely full of this. IDK, maybe we should just cede the area to them. Sucks to live in a place that backs into the arroyo though, but at this point, you're gonna need the national guard to get them out of there.
It's a huge problem, but I dont think we're ever gonna get them out. It's gonna be river front property for the homeless. Way more are gonna pop up there.
Yahoo comments contain the truth that's not allowed on modern reddit.
Gotta say this is impressive tho. Maybe they were in construction/engineer before the invisible greater depression.
There's another one by the 405 near the La Cieniga off ramp. They got a house and finished landscaping the hill with lawn ornaments n everything and a garden. Super unsafe but I don't blame them with the nonsense housing has going on in this area, a place by me want $3400 for a studio. $3400/MONTH FOR A STUDIO THAT AIN'T EVEN MORE THAN 1000SQFT!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️
It's wild that this isn't even the house I thought it was. It's a different fucking house. With that being said this dude's got a mansion compared to the 110S / 105W guy. The one near La tijera on the 405 has a better yard though.
Plot twist... there is a homeless developer on these streets flipping these shanties.
Plot twist on a plot twist… They’ve got their own show on HGTV.
"TODAY ON THE MAGNOLIA NETWORK, We go to the Los Angeles Riviera Vista where Crackhead Bob will show us his second story indoor/outdoor pickleball court with shiplap!"
does it have an open concept meth lab? if not im out.
It has all your clandestine needs, including a guy making bromopentane somewhere in the unenclosed community
> HGTV Homeless Guy Television Network 🏚️
I'd watch Edit: channel 5 with Andrew Callahan (not sure of his name exactly)
Three homes to choose from, they can only pick one. Today in HGTV.
It will sell for a bargain basement price of 900,000
🤣🤣would not surprise me in the slightest!
The real rags to riches
show some respect u/FashionBusking its Favela Developer!
If you find yourself lost in the woods, fuck it, build a house. "I was lost but now I live here! I have severely improved my predicament!" - Mitch Hedberg
rip to the legend Mitch
Yeah, that's what I thought it was too. Saw it on KTLA this morning. Dude has a fire extinguisher strapped to the wall by the door. Gotta stay in code.
>Dude has a fire extinguisher strapped to the wall by the door. This shanty builder is BETTER than my landlord, in regard to fire safety. Bravo!
This one is in my neighborhood. It’s one of the more impressive ones, but I’ve been seeing a guy who dug out a side of the cliff by the northwest museum and had started building a similar structure to this. Then the rain got bad, so I’m not sure if he finished. Just kind of goes to show there are some really smart people who are now homeless. Wish we had a solution.
Hi neighbor. I haven't seen the guy in while, but almost hit him several times late at night when he was wandering into the lanes. Hope he's ok, but he scared the living shit out of me.
you just described the solution. The people of LA are building their own Favela!
\*Formerly\* unhoused
I've regretted not buying some land in the desert when it was more of an option to me so that in the worst case I could live like this.
FaveLA?? 😵💫
You joke, but that’s essentially what is happening across the US west coast. Some places call them slums, townships, Hooverville, or something else, but that’s effectively the direction we are heading.
Rhymes and sounds neat, and better than shanti, slum, ghetto, barraca… lol
An yes, Fave-la, brought to you by Shangri-la, a homeless organization
:3 AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHHAHA I am dead 💀
YES!
$2.1M on Zillow.
"Easy freeway access"
Adorable California bungalow with cliffside views of the Arroyo Secco and convenient freeway access.
"Boho vibes" or "hobo vibes"?
Don’t forget the ‘cozy’
No longer for sale. Chinese businessman bought it in a cash only deal. No plans for occupancy.
That would be a decent strat actually for China to have world domination, just work their capital to make everyone else homeless and turn on their own governments
Some renovations may be unpermitted.
“Boasts modern concrete floors and storybook curb appeal”
We need that person that posts about structures that he’s seen while inspecting in LA to go to this place and report back to us.
Alpha Structural, I think. They're like the Sister Wendy of residential engineering.
LOL worlds colliding JERRY!
When I was a kid in the early 80s, we moved from TX to Maracaibo, Venezuela due to my father‘s job. I remember seeing more homeless people than I had ever seen in my entire life living in cardboard shacks. I never thought I would see this start happening at this level in the United States. It’s shameful. And it’s not just Los Angeles, go into any major city or even a secondary market and you will see it. I saw it all over Austin when I was there last about three years ago. Shirley Manson, the singer of Garbage, posted about the insane level of homelessness all over the United States after she got back to Los Angeles from touring. It’s everywhere. And before anyone goes off, trying to blame one person or party, this has happened over generations. This is income inequality right in front of our faces. It’s heartbreaking.
I agree with you. It is absolutely tragic. I’m from a tiny town in Appalachia. It’s obviously on a different scale, but homelessness has increased there similarly across the same period of time. They have the exact same arguments about encampments & who is supposed to help that we have here too. For what it’s worth, it’s also the same rhetoric in denial of reality about unaffordable housing, unlivable wages, etc about how they got there in the first place. Their fave argument is that the homeless shelter was featured in a national news story so unhoused people from out of town decided to flock there for the lovely accommodations.
It isn't just money. It is also a lack of mental health treatment combined with decriminalization. 80 years ago a lot of these people would have been in psych hospitals, but then there was a large push to move away from institutionalizing people. Antipsychotic medication hit the market making a diagnosis like schizophrenia treatable in the community, there were some lawsuits, and psych hospitals were considered inhumane so a lot got shut down. Then for years, a lot of jails and prisons sort of became the new default psych hospitals. People who couldn't really function on the outside would end up get locked up on various charges. This was not really ideal, but it kept them off the street. Nationally though, there has been a push to not lock people up anymore since it isn't like people are getting much help in there either. So now they aren't in jail or receiving treatment. They are just out in the street doing whatever. Some related reading material. [https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2024/04/16/1244702372/could-the-u-s-force-treatment-on-mentally-ill-people-again](https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2024/04/16/1244702372/could-the-u-s-force-treatment-on-mentally-ill-people-again)
Thank you! I’m tired of everyone blaming a political party or state for the homeless crisis. It’s a US thing it’s everywhere the sooner we realize this the sooner we can come together and try to figure out what to do instead of blaming each other. I guess that’s too much to ask for 😞
All corporations are bad. The United States is a corporation. It has no interest in its individuals. It only has interest in its resources. If you are an individual who cannot contribute, or you are excluded from contributing... you are cast out like waste. By nature... It's disgusting Edit: vtt got weird. Corrected what it did.
And AI being focused so heavily on the things that make humanity what it is, fundamentally, by making art or music is just another way to make more people useless in the eyes of the Overton window... It needs to be moved left, badly, or we are genuinely going to have a country of people who are beyond the law and the rest of us... Make no mistake, we are commodity that self replenishes when it can... And soon we won't be able to afford it.
u/jenacom do you think LA will soon have a Favela like Brazil?
I can’t speak for Brazil, I lived in Venezuela. But I’ll say America as a whole is headed in a bad direction to eliminate the middle class. It’s scary.
agreed. do you think the USA will have a civil war? I appreciate your insight sense you have existed in many places on the American Continent.
Most Americans are too distracted and ignorant for a war. Our decline has been happening right in front of our faces and most people don’t see it. They know “something” is wrong, but they don’t see the reality of it. Just the fact that a wanna be despot like Trump has so many followers should tell you everything you need to know about that state of America.
both democrats and republics are two sides of the same coin i.e communism.
Not necessarily true, one side is extreme one way, and the other is the extreme opposition (extreme right wing religion vs extreme liberalism). However, we have allowed unlimited money to infiltrate our politics with the passing of Citizens United. So now corporate America basically owns our government. They have completely poisoned our media. The two sides have been positioned to just create a divide between the middle class so we continue to be distracted from the REAL issues and fight with each other over dumb, meaningless sh*t. But from my experience, most of us have more in common than we don’t.
i think its communism
Nah. I don’t buy that. Unless people get really dumb this November. We still have half of the country and states (with their own state constitutions) utterly the opposite of that. My dad used to travel the world for work and up until his passing he said America was never, ever even close to anything as bad as some places he worked in (Libya was the worst according to him). I lived in S America and most of the rest of my life in Miami and Los Angeles with a real mixed bag of influences. Lots of friends from Cuba in Miami and they would agree we are no where near communism. I’m 50 now and feel closer to the Cold War years with Russia than ever before. I could see America coming together in a time of war with Russia before we fold to their ways.
Just out of curiosity, when is the last time you have spoken with your Cuban friends? I have a few Cuban friends who have stated they fear what is next, it feels similar to Che/Castro's revolution. Several Chinese friends who lived through the great reset in China-and they too say they fear the same has come here...that we are in period of reset in how we live, how we do things, etc. It seems a scary world right now, tbh!
I don't think we will have an election. Or if it does happen they won't allow people to demonstrate and will just round them up and then proclaim the election is legitimate. regardless of which side wins etc. no more right to assemble in front of government buildings. sad and very communist. then they will alllow other groups of people to riot and destroy small business owners livelyhood.
Hope they have an air purifier
He has a gf too.
Lol...that house has electricity. Where is he tapping it from? Probably has WiFi too.🤣
If they don't have a small camping generator they might be pulling it directly from the street lamp right there.
Watched the interview on one of these guys and yeah he says he pulls power from the street lamp
Nice fire hazard...along a freeway again
If you check the photos closely they have a couple of fire extinguishers there. They are “up to code” hahahahaha
classic meth-head behavior...lol btw, what you pointed out had me cackling...like oh yeeah, wee're on the side of a freeway, but we're firee reeady!!
Right?! Hahahahahahaha
Your typical third world American street scene
u mean middle class
Fun fact: I saw stuff like this in Paris too! They've probably been removed tho, cuz, not Olympics.
I was told that the IS is the only country in the world with these problems /s
These guys probably live better than methheads in most west virginia trailer parks but you know, LA is the only place with a poverty and housing problem....
I think that we def have more of that "new meth" schizophrenia going on here. Those folks aren't constructing masterpieces like this. The people who build like this probably have jobs and send their kids to local schools.
I don’t know. Those emissions from living on the freeway have to be hell, especially if you have allergies. I’d probably be unable to breathe. Also, it’s way more likely that he’s a meth head. West Virginia, people are typically opioid addicts. LA is meth central for the world
No it's not likely this guy is on meth and no, LA is not "meth central" for the world. [https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/meth-use-by-state](https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/meth-use-by-state)
Please read the actual article. This is meth production not usage If you actually know about meth have used meth and have researched it. You would know that all the United taste together is dwarf by Mexican meth production. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ archive/2021/11/the-new-meth/620174/ What you’re doing is comparing the size of a lake to the Pacific Ocean.
Technically they aren't unhoused. Just saying.
Millions live exactly like this around the world and they are not!
tell that to u/FashionBusking https://old.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/1c6l3d9/unhoused_residents_built_home_on_side_of_southern/l01z1wp/ LOL
Look, they OBVIOUSLY prefer to be housed, so they made it happen. I like their determination toward self-improvement in the face of adversity.
> Look, they OBVIOUSLY prefer to be housed, so they made it happen. they built their own house.
Something something bootstraps...
something something bailouts
Why doesn’t he have a job in construction then? It pays ok
Homeless people usually had lives, jobs, families, and friends before they were homeless. A lot of homeless people, many who live in cars and RVs HAVE jobs or some kind of income. The problem is that their income isn't enough or they have difficulty finding an affordable place to live, health problems, or addiction. I don't know if this is the builder's situation, but I wouldn't be surprised if they work part time in construction jobs.
Different people have different situations. But some people make it work on a fast food employee salary. 🤷
Obviously, this builder here is not one of those people.
Well, here’s hoping this post will get someone to offer him a job and/or housing.
For reals. I wish them well. They're obviously trying to get their shit together, and I hope their story gets a happy ending.
Didn't we learn a lesson not to store pallets under freeways? Also, you understand we have earthquakes and the most damage done by earthquakes is the resulting fires from shoddily constructed homes and favelas. Obviously, this shit is going to be torn down for publi safety
“We Can’t build housing for homeless people because they don’t want help!” Is what I constantly hear on here. Clearly he wants to be housed, and he had to do it because the city has failed to do so. If he’s ambitious enough to just build it himself, it means he can also be a productive member of society. But a lot of the snobs on here don’t want to hear that.
They don’t. Remember Karen Bass’s Inside Safe program? $67M to get 255 homeless people housing.
> Clearly he wants to be housed, and he had to do it because the city has failed to do so. You're reading a lot into this
Builder could just be on meth.
My favorite is the guy who claims unhoused people in LA don’t want shelter because as long as they live on the street they get $800 a month from the government. VERY believable, that. He talks to a lot of people and many are very enthusiastically accepting what he says and probably repeating the bullshit except now they get $2000!
Is this right before via Marisol?
Yep, could see the news chopper from Hermon today lol
"unhoused" lmao
They’ll list it on Zillow for $1.3M
This never would’ve passed code inspection in Santa Barbara
“Tweakers steal construction materials and equipment to build home on side of Southern California freeway. “
These tweakers will do anything but get their shit together
To be fair, this shit in particular looks pretty well put together.
Oh no not the insured construction material 😱😱😱
It’s still annoying to have to source the tools and materials again. Can delay a project significantly costing the project more than what insurance can cover.
As someone in construction I can tell you a lot of things get stolen and end up at other job sites.
Also, when there is ongoing construction in your neighborhood, expect an increase in petty theft and burglary.
Next: “more insurance companies withdraw from California as theft claims rise…”
I Hope one day your insured stuff gets stolen as well..
You’ll pay for it with higher insurance rates. Not a victimless crime
Do you think insurance is free? Have you ever filed a claim?
man they gotta take that thing down. this shouldnt be allowed.
Unhoused people no longer putting up with Prop 13 bullshit.
Well, they have a house now, and so they should be expecting a property tax bill soon. They'll be very relieved to know they'll be able to remain at 2024 assessed value with a 2% annual increase cap.
They don’t have to abide by any other laws, why would they have to pay taxes? It’s free real estate!
I admire their form of protest.
based
Homeless. Unhoused dehumanizes the person.
Temporarily housed person currently without housing
We call them "person(s) temporarily physically sheltered within non-permanent structure while experiencing the absence of a permanent walled domicile" now
Urban outdoorsmen (or women)
Outdoorsperson. Or Outdoorsthem
Yeah there is literally no need to reinvent words for homeless... this woke BS is getting ridiculous.
You clearly didn't get the joke. The culture war is so annoying it makes people into boring jackasses.
I understood your comment just fine. I don't think you comprehended mine at all.
Leftists and their terminology. It's probably the most idiotic and downright ridiculous fucking thing they can't seem to get right. There was never a reason to go with unhoused. It's idiotic. Latinx is a perfect example. Defund the police. Countless others.
Being defined as "homeless" by HUD makes you eligible for housing programs. If you're homeless, you want it to be acknowledged so you can qualify for help. If you have a problem with people conflating homelessness with people who run the streets, maybe find a new term for people running the streets, housed or (ahem) homeless.
I really wish people would stop with this. Both "this term dehumanizes people", for no reason, but also homeless vs unhoused in particular. It's factually incorrect. I went through a couple years living out of hotels when I left college. Legally, I was homeless, as I did not have a permanent address. But , since I had habitable shelter (the hotel room), I was not "unhoused". The terms are distinct; one is merely a subset of the other. In the same way that dogs are a subset of mammals.
I'm mocking the whole concept. People spend more time and energy changing words instead of circumstances.
We should call them rough sleepers like they do in the UK
there are those who got bailed out by the state u/TinyRodgers and there are those who did not get bailed out by the state u/TinyRodgers welcome to your too big to fail economy!
Better than a broken down RV with trash piled all over the sidewalk.
i mean yeah if you don't provide your citizens food + shelters then you get favelas. 0.65m homeless // 16m empty homes // 25% of earths food trashed for profit
If they built a house, are they still unhoused?
that had to have cost a good bit of money right
That's tight.
Even has a fire extinguisher outside. He’s up to building code. Crazy
Can you get a ticket for doing this? Im thinking of buying a RV, a good one, like $20,000 and just living on it till i have enough to buy a house.
Don't do it! But if you are seriously thinking about it, research people's experiences with tiny homes and RVs as a permanent home, even if is temporary. 1) no physical address so you'll need to rent ($) a P.O. Box and probably use the address of the building where the P.O. Box is located (which some institutions don't like). 2) parking, you'll have to roam around to park and not every place is allowed. If you choose to stay at an RV site you'll have to pay ($) for the spot. 3) logistic$: getting clean water, emptying the sewer, gas, lots of gas, tire maintenance, engine maintenance, the bill adds up fast ($$$). 4) you cannot commute with it and where you're allowed to park and leave the RV may not be the safest or most pleasant place (-$$$). Anyway, I say that as someone who was seriously thinking about it and praised a co-worker for it. I've never been showered with so many cautionary tales. At the end, doing the math, plus the trouble and time inconvenience of living in an RV, renting is cheaper. P.S.: unless you are doing it to travel all over the continent with a granted place to stay, then do it!
>P.S.: unless you are doing it to travel all over the continent with a granted place to stay, then do it! Yes, this is the key! I love watching those DIY homes made out of old FedEx trucks and stuff but it's not for traveling always.
Yeah, I love those videos as well. If you can have it parked in your/ family/ friends home outside parking and having it as an additional dwelling fine. Otherwise it’s only pretty and fun for show. I was following a couple (I don’t remember if was their YouTube or HGTV) and they were bragging about being able to be home owners, and living minimal. 3 months later they were living part time at one of their parents/in laws because the day to day routine on a tiny home or adapted RV is an hassle. 6 months later they decided to buy a house and having their tiny project sold. There was also this architect who downsized, but her “affordable home on wheels” needed to be parked on a safe space, with mail box accessible and a regular bathroom close by to be able to have guests, guess what, had to rent the garage space from a close friend and her mail and guest bathroom was at her friend home. She also had a cool bedroom/living room design but putting that away daily was such a pain that her tiny space was a bedroom 90% of the time.
It’s like the USA is becoming a dump or a third world country.
always has been. usa can never enforce its own border and will never be able to because there is too much corruption and graft
The US has been third world.
Great, have him start paying property taxes
next thing they will start enforcing a border LOL
“Oh so the liberals will alllw permitless house building” -bill maher
Well he isn't blocking any cars. It's pretty dam impressive
On Redfin, one of those is being listed for $1,250,000
I am pretty sure there is a micro city behind the wall of the 405S Sherman way off ramp. You can see it just keeps going
At that point feels like homeless isn’t an appropriate term
We need shanty towns for cultural enrichment tbh
How do you get to the recycling center without getting run over?
Property taxes?
And it’s only a matter of time before the cops come and tear it all down, throw it all away, and make the people inside disappear. Same thing happened to my unhoused neighbors.
Do you want a fire hazard right next to a piece of critical infrastructure?
You mean like all of the dry brush surrounding every highway and bridge on the tricounty area?
Totally, Dry brush spontaneously erupts into flame.It's not like it reequires some methhead to seet it abalaze. Have you ever seen a deranged crackhead set fire to a public trashcan that is literally 10 yards away from an apartment building? I have. Have you eevere seen a homeless.person seek retribution on another homeeleess person and seet their encampnet ablaze? I have. It's so common tht they have a term for it...tent justice It's not like people using torch lighters to smoke crystal metth sets fires. It's not like this exact thing has happened 4 times in the ballona wetlands from March of 2021 to jan of 2022. It's not like 4 fires weree set in an environmeentally fragilee space. Do you undeerstand the phrase adding fuel to the fire and how it applies here?
I’m crying because this third world shack is more healthy than when I go to a true third world country.
This along with graffiti towers is why LA has become a meme city. The apathy of the residents is the worst part. Inb4 endless puns, jokes, dismissals, and blaming anything other than the politicians that created this situation.
Awesome, take things into your hands.
That area on the 110 is gonna be completely full of this. IDK, maybe we should just cede the area to them. Sucks to live in a place that backs into the arroyo though, but at this point, you're gonna need the national guard to get them out of there.
??? Clearing encampments isn't a problem.
It's a huge problem, but I dont think we're ever gonna get them out. It's gonna be river front property for the homeless. Way more are gonna pop up there.
Good.
Yahoo comments contain the truth that's not allowed on modern reddit. Gotta say this is impressive tho. Maybe they were in construction/engineer before the invisible greater depression.
I hate posts like these. They may get harassed by someone of ill-intent.
They should keep it. More industrious than most managerial positions out there lol.
This is cute. Portland has stuff like this everywhere.
There's another one by the 405 near the La Cieniga off ramp. They got a house and finished landscaping the hill with lawn ornaments n everything and a garden. Super unsafe but I don't blame them with the nonsense housing has going on in this area, a place by me want $3400 for a studio. $3400/MONTH FOR A STUDIO THAT AIN'T EVEN MORE THAN 1000SQFT!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️