What you need to know about a new proposal to restrict camping in L.A. as the city faces growing pressure for more action to address homeles
LA city council passed a secretly-developed, violent ordinance last minute that criminalizes homelessness.
The ordinance criminalizes sitting basically anywhere in order to give police full discretion for any violence they deem necessary to arrest or otherwise displace unhoused residents.
This is happening while the housing crisis and oncoming evictions are so severe that L.A. county extended the COVID-19 eviction moratorium thru the end of September.
In California, about 1,900,000 homes are behind on rent.
57% of residents in LA county are rent-burdened
This is not a solution to homelessness, this is violent displacement that will funnel the poor into prisons and recapture released prisoners back into prisons.
All of this is done in the name of development and white supremacy.
