Absolutely triumphant Los Angeles taggers cover abandoned high rise!
Also, why are 27 stories of abandoned condos vacant in downtown Los Angeles while homeless people are dying on the sidewalk below?
“With all due respect, shit’s abandoned, doing nothing. Let’s put some color on this bitch and do what we do if they ain’t gon finish the job,” one ... tagger, Hopes, said.
Although sparked by the acquittal of 4 white police officers who beat Rodney King, the roots of the 1992 Los Angeles riots can be traced back through decades of racial, economic, & political tensions. Therefore, to understand the magnitude & depth of anger that fueled the riots, one must consider the historical context that set the stage for this tumultuous event.
#introductions Hi! 👋 I'm John and I'm an academic #librarian in #LosAngeles where I head up my library's outreach and engagement team. I've been working in libraries for about 15 years.
I love spending time #gardening, listening to podcasts, wine tasting (read: drinking), reading, and being with my family.
We might buy a piano soon.
I was an avid user of the bird site since 2007 but stopped posting over a year ago. I miss the community of library folk I found there. 😢
#LosAngeles Orders More Residential Hotels to Stop Renting to Tourists
Twenty-one #hotels have been cited so far. If the citations are enforced and upheld in court, hundreds of rooms could be turned back into low-cost permanent #housing for the city’s poorest residents.
Took my camera to Griffith park on Saturday to finally get some images of the acorn woodpecker colony that lives by the merry-go-round, who have apparently never seen a hole they wouldn't try to use for acorn storage
Rodney King suffered a fractured skull and cheekbone after being beaten by 4 Los Angeles, CA police officers, who were charged with a number of offenses. Many Angelenos felt certain of a conviction. After all, there was irrefutable proof in the form of a video captured by George Holliday, then, blasted across the airwaves. Wrong! Not guilty!
The 1980s brought rising poverty, unemployment, gang activity, drugs & violent crime to the poorer neighborhoods of Los Angeles, CA. Repeated violent encounters between police officers and civilians led many minority communities to believe that LAPD brass were not holding officers accountable, Thus, the stage was set for one of the most significant civil uprisings in American history.
Anyone in #LosAngeles want a #Cat? Student has rescued two but can only keep one themself and wants to home the other rather than give to a shelter. Lmk if you want to get in touch about adopting this cutie:
Evacuation for Topanga Canyon -- Emergency message from LA County Sheriff: Evacuation Order issued for Santa Maria Rd from Topanga Canyon due to high risk of debris/mud flows. LEAVE NOW. Gather family, medications, pets and leave now. Monitor local news and Alertla.org for more information. #LosAngeles#Topanga#TopangaCanyon#Evacuation#CAwx#rain
This article showing that giving homeless people cash reduces homelessness is crossing my timeline a lot recently. A lot of well intentioned comments about how our current ways of addressing homelessness -- shelters, social workers, sweeps, cops, arrests -- cost more than just giving people the money directly would and aren't as effective at housing people as direct cash transfers would be.
But the popular conclusion -- that the government should see this as a reason to switch to this more effective strategy -- relies on the unsupported assumption that the government is actually trying to house people. To me the study suggests that housing people isn't their goal rather than just that they want to house people but just don't know how.
To me the more interesting question raised by this research is to ask what the government's policies are actually aiming at if it's not housing people. Here in Los Angeles the current policies end up funnelling tons of public money to cops, contractors, lawyers, nonprofits, and commercial property owners. The homeless themselves serve as an excuse that the electorate will accept as an explanation of the spending. They're the raw material processed by the homeless industrial complex. Giving money directly to the homeless would not only end the current grift but housing them would cut off the grift for all time. Why would they do that?
How We Found What the City of Los Angeles Didn’t: #Landlords Renting Low-Cost #Housing to Tourists
Hotel ads, booking sites and guest reviews. Tourists staying in rooms meant for low-cost housing. Yet the city’s Housing Department has cited few landlords for violating the residential #hotel law.
#DanielSwain says there's a high potential for dangerous flash #flooding events on Sunday around the transverse ranges (and anywhere between bay area and southern border), very #windy near coast, in valley, the grapevine. Don't go up into or cross the before Monday, just don't.
From NWS Los Angeles: "Here are some details on our upcoming storm. Life threatening flooding, damaging winds and heavy mountain snow are coming. Many roads/freeways will be completely flooded. Many trees will be down. Power outages likely. There is still time to prepare" #CAwx#LosAngeles#flooding#rain
Serious politics going on to try to disrupt a plan to make Los Angeles safer for pedestrians and cyclists. Quite a bit of car-supporting backlash, highlighting the issues that seem to come up in any plan to attempt to battle fossil fuels usage.
Candidate for City Council:
“We don’t have room for bicycle lanes that one person might ride down once a day,” he said. “We need the mobility, and we need it for cars.”