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. roofless.substack.com

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. zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-178-a...

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

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? roofless.substack.com/p/inside-saf...

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? www.latimes.com/california/s...

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. zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-172-l... 🔥🔍📰😎🖤⚖️

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

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! zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-169-u...

“How many identities must be stolen until none of our personal information has any value? Would that be bad, or possibly a good thing?” @roof.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/roofless...

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! zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-163-y...

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:

#DONTMOVE #SquidGame

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

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.

Listen to Ava in her own voice and words open.substack.com/pub/roofless...

👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 #LosAngeles #homeless #spending 💸💸💸💸💸💸 Who got rich off #ABridgeHome in #VeniceBeach? 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑 #audit #lahsa #reciepts 🦛

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

U.S. Offers PlatinumPlus Preferred Citizenship

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 via @lapublicpress.bsky.social lapublicpress.org/2025/02/la-r...

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

Please boost by sharing 100% independent, unbought investigative journalism created on the streets of Los Angeles, so more people can read unhoused experiences and learn which lies they have been sold by mainstream press about homelessness & re-housing!

🧵 #UnitedtoHouseLA #MeasureULA #evictiondefense #programimplementation #StayHousedLA #homelessnessprevention #mansiontaxes #transferfees #redlining #reparations #segregation #displacement #renters #tenants #unions #rentstrike #right2counsel #tenantsrights #mutualaid #UBI #SSI #probono #legalaid

#StayHousedLA #UnitedtoHouseLA #LosAngeles #CityofLA www.stayhousedla.org/priority-zip... ZIP prioritization inevitably creates inequities in legal housing assistance for tenants. #redlining #eviction #displacement #segregation #housing #right2counsel #tenant #union #organizing #rentstrike

(1/2) I asked ULACOC why #UnitedtoHouseLA had collected $10M in contributions from #MansionTaxes from 10 real estate sales in 90291… …but tenants in 90291 only got $100k in #StayHousedLA assistance!

(1/2) I spoke to United to House LA’s Citizen Oversight Commission on 2/13 about my friend Ava’s eviction. It was the first time ULACOC had met since the #LAFire:

Thanks @zacharyellison.bsky.social for sharing my latest piece, “Advocating for Ava”, about my friend who was evicted in Venice, and all the housing which is supposed to be available to her…but is not available for anyone!

The latest from Ruth Roofless on how one woman in Venice is losing her housing is a heartbreaker. How are we this bad at keeping people housed in LA? open.substack.com/pub/roofless...

#SuperBowl #halftime #kendricklamar #notlikeus #concentrationcamp #homeless #internment #civilrights #dhs #nola #losangeles #frenchquarter #iberville #storyville #bienville #ords4118 #lamc4118

The latest with @roof.bsky.social on the evolution of policy in Los Angeles towards the crisis of the unhoused. Will more money really be the solution mixed with some reform? How do we get private entities more invested when so many are kind of NIMBY? open.substack.com/pub/roofless...

Two years after 72 veterans were displaced from cottages at Gateways Hospital in Echo Park, and 1 mile away LAPD raided Echo Park Lake in what resembled somewhat of a warzone, ultimately displacing around 200 unhoused people.

See. 🧵

72 veterans were displaced from Echo Park when the VA was outbid on a cluster of cottages at Gateways Hospital by LAHSA, using homeless prevention funds controlled by County Supervisor Hilda Solis.

I’ve been friends with @roof.bsky.social for several years. Whatever she has to say is worth reading/hearing.

The latest with @roof.bsky.social on the crisis in Los Angeles that the massive bureaucracy just can’t seem to properly address. Making serious reforms to the homelessness system in Los Angeles is going to require more than just talking about reform. zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-139-v...

Don’t miss @roof.bsky.social in Citywatch LA on Veteran’s housing in Los Angeles, which couldn’t be more jammed up in court. Serve our country and get left on the street? Don’t think that was the deal, and most especially for disabled veterans. www.citywatchla.com/important-re...

UNHOUSED, UN-ALIVED, UNSOLVED Homeless homicides +46X in 12yrs By me Ruth @roof.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/roofless...

I went by one of the former Skid Row Housing Trust buildings that was sold to a developer. Two tenants were locked out because their keycards failed, one with a dog in his room. There would be no staff on site for two days. They were all being evicted due to black mold. substack.com/home/post/p-...

“In 1990, the monthly GR payment was $312. That’s $773 today.” In 1993 GR payments were cut to $221, and only for 9 months of the year. It hasn’t been raised at all since then

The latest with @roof.bsky.social on the homelessness crisis in Los Angeles and the proposal to create a new County agency. Billions have been spent, the money hasn’t been fully accounted for with a federal audit still ongoing. What will the end result be?

Live on an inter-web near you from the amazing @roof.bsky.social and myself - we break down the new housing solutions agency for Los Angeles County. Ruth will even read it to you! Perfect for Turkey Day.

Hard at work this morning on another story on homelessness in Los Angeles with @roof.bsky.social - We go to the meetings and do all the readings so you don’t have to! 📰

HOWEVER: Since March 27, 2023, landlords may not evict a tenant who falls behind in rent unless the tenant owes an amount higher than the Fair Market Rent (FMR). The FMR depends on the bedroom size of the rental unit. See below table.

I really love how "exit" is in quotes as it is obviously a euphism.

Good morning Los Angeles. LA City Council was packed by those seeking approval of a “sanctuary city” measure and the topic is also coming up at the Police Commission. Should Donald Trump be allowed to deport millions of people under the color of law using the military + police?

Really wish the Dems hadn’t stopped the “they’re weird” rhetoric because here’s some really fucking weird behavior at Coldwater Canyon and Ventura in Studio City

This is the sheriff who is making this claim. He has absolutely no credibility

"To condemn one of the most vulnerable populations at Rikers Island – people diagnosed with mental illness – to makeshift solitary cells, while depriving them of essential medical care, is downright cruel. ... Solitary is torture, and its continued use is both illegal and immoral."