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Now is a great time to support @roof.bsky.social who is again facing a sweep as an unhoused person in Los Angeles. Please support my colleague in her attempt to stay in her shelter.

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Part 178: A Homelessness Impasse in Los Angeles? Judicial Nothingburger and Policy Indecision Published July 2, 2025.

The latest with @roof.bsky.social on the pressing questions on housing and homelessness in Los Angeles. In a surprise decision there will be no receivership even as more money than before comes from taxpayers.

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Cc @roof.bsky.social. Let's free #HMIS, #WMS, and #HCH data! ✊

🆕 Inside Safe AUDIT by independent indigent investigator Nearly 5,000 people enrolled in Mayor Bass’s shelter program in its first two years, and two-thirds remain indoors.

The latest Inside Safe data deep dive from @roof.bsky.social is worth every point. Do the numbers support the narrative of Mayor Karen Bass on the crisis of the unhoused?

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A federal judge weighs turning L.A. city's homelessness programs over to a receiver After hearing seven days of testimony, a federal judge is deliberating on a request from a group of business owners, property owners and residents to place the city of Los Angeles' billion-dollar home...

I was impressed at how closely this story by Doug Smith of the Los Angeles Times parallels the coverage by @roof.bsky.social and myself of the LA Alliance Hearings and more. Receivership soon?

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Part 172: LA Alliance Evidentiary Hearing? A Homelessness Receivership is Coming to Los Angeles Published May 21, 2025.

The latest with @roof.bsky.social on the failure to address homelessness in Los Angeles. Will an evidentiary hearing and a receivership change the dynamic? There are so many empty beds already in a system gone awry.

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Scheduled: Displacement X Spaces for landless people everywhere weekly discussion 🧯landless lady ❤️‍🔥’s Space · Where live audio conversations happen

Join me to chat about homelessness, landlessness and displacement at 7pm on twitter/X, Discord or call 8186001846 twitter.com/i/spaces/1dR...

Part 169: Unpacking “a litany of horribles” – The LADWP Scandal and Litigation Mysteries Published April 30, 2025.

The latest with @roof.bsky.social on the decade plus long LADWP corruption scandal. Will former Chief Deputy City Attorney James Clark be disbarred after testimony from a former FBI confidential informant? Don’t miss!

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The HACKLA “After applying for Section 8, our private data was in the hands of professional hackers demanding a ransom, making us virtual hostages.”

“How many identities must be stolen until none of our personal information has any value? Would that be bad, or possibly a good thing?”

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Part 163: “You’re dead politically” – Homelessness Bureaucracy and Human Consequences in Los Angeles Published April 1, 2025.

The saga in Los Angeles continues with homelessness bureaucracy, which today saw the LA County Board of Supervisors vote to create a new agency. Don’t miss the latest with @roof.bsky.social on the audit that shook LA mightily!

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Traci Park receives campaigns contributions from the contractor working to convert Ramada Homekey into housing

This Ramada Inn was purchased for $10M by the State thru Homekey & transferred to @pathpartners for $1M. It received an add’l $8.5M, incl $1.5M from HHH @ at the end of last year. Yet it has been VACANT since 2022! 7 people are dying on the streets of LA DAILY. Who is holding up this housing?

The City pays every night for all 23 rooms at this Inside Safe motel, which has a contract through 9/30, but most of the rooms stay empty:

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Rick Caruso has named other board members to his nonprofit with close ties to the Trump administration, including Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale.

Lonsdale also started the Cicero Institute, a Texas think tank that develops anti-camping bills which have been passed by several states

Part 160: “Some Kind of Action” – A New Homelessness Audit Drops in Los Angeles Published March 13, 2025.

The audit released last Thursday in federal court by the firm Alvarez & Marsal into response in Los Angeles to the crisis of the unhoused was some serious reading. Will it be enough to change anything? The latest with @roof.bsky.social on the LA powerbrokers coming under scrutiny.

#UnitedtoHouseLA SPEECHLESS after Ava’s public comment Watch now | On December 12, 2024, Ava pleaded with ULA’s Citizen Oversight Committee for assistance after she had been evicted from her apartment in Venice.

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Who got rich off #ABridgeHome in #VeniceBeach?

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It just opened on the 15th!

How many houses have been rebuilt yet??

@redcrossla.bsky.social is already shutting down the Duarte #LAFires shelter, making fire victims displaced and unsheltered…

U.S. Offers PlatinumPlus Preferred Citizenship WASHINGTON, DC—In an 86-14 vote, the Senate approved legislation Monday establishing PlatinumPlus Preferred citizenship, an exciting new program offering special benefits and discounts to select membe...

U.S. Offers PlatinumPlus Preferred Citizenship

Why did LA bulldoze an Echo Park encampment during a rain storm? Mayor Karen Bass’s Inside Safe operations can leave unhoused residents even more vulnerable to the elements.

The day an atmospheric river dumped almost three inches of rain on downtown Los Angeles earlier this month was also the day that the city of LA decided to uproot a longstanding encampment of unhoused neighbors in Echo Park.

Why did LA bulldoze an Echo Park encampment during a rain storm? w/ @phoenixtso.bsky.social
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AOC: The order has come down to this committee. Find $880 billion to pay for a tax cuts on yachts, jets, billionaires, and mega corporations while working class people pay higher tax rates than Facebook does. Undocumented immigrants pay more in taxes than many large corporations

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