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Woman sues L.A. after being struck by car on a street where tents block sidewalk

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Re: Woman sues L.A. after being struck by car on a street where tents block sidewalk

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Post by belval »

dyingkneepad wrote: post #23

As a non-American person living in the US, I fail to understand one thing about its society. When I walk around town I see tons and tons of places advertising jobs, for simple stuff like kitchen, moving stuff around, etc. I even recently saw a store with a "talk to the manager and start working right now" sign. And then I walk around the streets and see all these homeless. It seems like a paradox to me, but I am obvi…

The base issue is usually mental illness worsened by substance abuse, without a strong social net and with readily available street drugs these people are pretty much unfit for any kind of work.

Re: Woman sues L.A. after being struck by car on a street where tents block sidewalk

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Post by jjoonathan »

dyingkneepad wrote: post #23

As a non-American person living in the US, I fail to understand one thing about its society. When I walk around town I see tons and tons of places advertising jobs, for simple stuff like kitchen, moving stuff around, etc. I even recently saw a store with a "talk to the manager and start working right now" sign. And then I walk around the streets and see all these homeless. It seems like a paradox to me, but I am obvi…

Do those jobs pay enough for housing + commute?

Re: Woman sues L.A. after being struck by car on a street where tents block sidewalk

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Post by [deleted] »

smhost wrote: post #21
the_optimist wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very few people want to “throw out” homeless people. The reductionist vitriol is common, but unhelpful for a productive discussion.

> Very few people want to “throw out” homeless people. you clearly haven't met californians

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Re: Woman sues L.A. after being struck by car on a street where tents block sidewalk

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Post by tigertigerbb »

dyingkneepad wrote: post #23

As a non-American person living in the US, I fail to understand one thing about its society. When I walk around town I see tons and tons of places advertising jobs, for simple stuff like kitchen, moving stuff around, etc. I even recently saw a store with a "talk to the manager and start working right now" sign. And then I walk around the streets and see all these homeless. It seems like a paradox to me, but I am obvi…

>Anybody would please be able to point me at what I'm missing?

I strongly suspect that this is absolutely the wrong place to ask.

I do remember a time without homeless people however.

Re: Woman sues L.A. after being struck by car on a street where tents block sidewalk

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Post by pineconewarrior »

dyingkneepad wrote: post #23

As a non-American person living in the US, I fail to understand one thing about its society. When I walk around town I see tons and tons of places advertising jobs, for simple stuff like kitchen, moving stuff around, etc. I even recently saw a store with a "talk to the manager and start working right now" sign. And then I walk around the streets and see all these homeless. It seems like a paradox to me, but I am obvi…

In the US, that job may not offer the person any net quality-of-life improvements. Flipping that burger for 30 hours a week does not give them enough money to find housing. Now they're still broke but they're also tired, smelly, and angry.

Re: Woman sues L.A. after being struck by car on a street where tents block sidewalk

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Post by chrisseaton »

dyingkneepad wrote: post #23

As a non-American person living in the US, I fail to understand one thing about its society. When I walk around town I see tons and tons of places advertising jobs, for simple stuff like kitchen, moving stuff around, etc. I even recently saw a store with a "talk to the manager and start working right now" sign. And then I walk around the streets and see all these homeless. It seems like a paradox to me, but I am obvi…

Likely the homeless people, for obvious reasons beyond their control, do not have the hygiene standards to work in basic service jobs.

Re: Woman sues L.A. after being struck by car on a street where tents block sidewalk

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Post by [deleted] »

rhacker wrote: post #14
whymauri wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Why is she distributing supplies to a group of people she wants the city to throw out? Article is paywalled, but presumably she doesn't want them thrown out. There are, in fact, other solutions to homeless encampments...

I seriously don't know what the solution is. Enlighten us?

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Re: Woman sues L.A. after being struck by car on a street where tents block sidewalk

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Post by [deleted] »

dyingkneepad wrote: post #23

As a non-American person living in the US, I fail to understand one thing about its society. When I walk around town I see tons and tons of places advertising jobs, for simple stuff like kitchen, moving stuff around, etc. I even recently saw a store with a "talk to the manager and start working right now" sign. And then I walk around the streets and see all these homeless. It seems like a paradox to me, but I am obvi…

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Re: Woman sues L.A. after being struck by car on a street where tents block sidewalk

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Post by mark242 »

Causality1 wrote: post #3

Todd said she had gone to the overpass to distribute sandwiches, potato chips and water to people living at the freeway encampment. Todd’s lawsuit accuses the city of allowing the encampment at the 101 overpass on Gower to remain for a “substantial amount of time,” Why is she distributing supplies to a group of people she wants the city to throw out?

The encampment underneath the 101 on Gower is extremely dangerous. There is a stop sign at the end of the exit from the highway, and cross-traffic does not stop. When you want to go south on Gower and there is any amount of traffic, you need to hustle to make the left.

The encampment has taken over one of the lanes of southbound traffic, and when you hustle to make that left, unless you overcorrect on the turn and slow down, you are going to run into the encampment. It was a very difficult turn to make pre-pandemic when there was maybe 1 or 2 tents on the sidewalk underneath the highway; now that it's the sidewalk plus a lane of traffic, it is only a matter of time before someone gets run over.

As a very-short-term fix, the city needs to move some of those people to the encampment on El Centro, a couple of blocks away.

On edit: Google streetview from February, you can almost see how the encampment takes over a lane of traffic -- https://goo.gl/maps/dySMxTxFmgx43uNj7

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