Landless in Los Angeles

“i barely survived” With a combined 12M views, at least five sets of YouTube creators separately challenged themselves to survive a night in the WORST-rated hotel in Los Angeles. Many of them left before morning. The unpretentious, internet-infamous haunt’s green-painted inner and outer facades are contrasted by an ominous red neon sign which loudly names the “1-star” Motel. Like the curious young...

🇻🇦 Citius, Altius, Fortius – Communiter. 🇫🇷 Plus vite, Plus haut, Plus fort – Ensemble. 🇬🇧 Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together. — New* Olympic Motto (in Latin, French and English) *In 2021, “together” was added to the end of the 1897 version. With the swoop of famous Scientologist actor Tom Cruise, born in Syracuse, NY, and the passing of the flag to Mayor Karen Bass in Paris, France, a bevy of pu...

“Turn it into a homeless shelter!” went out as a popular cry as soon as the abandoned Oceanwide Plaza towers sandwiched between Flower and Figueroa Streets gained attention after being visibly graffitied overnight last Groundhog’s Day. Billionaire former Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rick Caruso had another vision, wanting to turn it into workforce housing, which is sorely needed for our teachers,...

On Friday April 1, 2022, former Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez, former Mayor Eric Garcetti, Attorney Elizabeth Mitchell for the L.A. Alliance for Human Rights, and Councilmember Kevin de León held a press conference in LA City Council chambers to announce a settlement to force the City to address homelessness through providing housing. The L.A. Alliance started out as just a smal...

Solve homelessness 1. House person/family 2. Don’t evict* 3. Repeat *important In under five years , the City of Los Angeles has gotten fantastic at getting unhoused people to move into motel shelters quickly*. Thanks for reading roofless! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. ( I don’t think anyone has ever made the claim that moving unhoused people into prepaid motel rooms...

🔔 L.A. Alliance for Human Rights v City of Los Angeles had a compliance hearing with Judge Carter at Courtroom 1 in the First Street Federal Court House at 9am Thursday, March 7th, 2024. This is a map of the public places where you aren’t allowed to sit, sleep, lie, or have possessions in L.A. 👇 LAMC § 41.18 is the municipal ordinance that makes it illegal to sit, sleep, lie, keep, maintain, pla...

Olympiad Los Angeles 1932 ~Olympic Motto~ “The Important Thing In The Olympic Games Is Not To Win, But To Take Part; The Important Thing In Life Is Not The Triumph, But The Struggle; The Essential Thing Is Not To Have Conquered, But To Have Fought Well. To Spread These Precepts Is To Build Up A Stronger And More Valiant And, Above All, More Scrupulous And More Generous Humanity.” —Baron PIERRE De...

Three looming stalagmites quietly grew from many years’ worth of deposits left behind by leaky budgets and diverted material resources, and no one seemed to notice or care…until the people of the City of Los Angeles started moving in, decorating, and BASE jumping like they owned the place. Untouchable even to its own investors and contractors due to American corruption, and located appropriately b...

I’m wearing a luxurious champagne-colored silk wrap dress as a bathrobe on a weekday morning in Spring 2018. The air in Los Angeles is crisp and the breeze gently teases my drapes. It’s the first quiet day after a particularly draining week and I’m finally enjoying some needed peace and self-care. I start my day by washing my face and painting my toenails in front of my large, framed Pottery Barn ...

Homelessness has existed in Los Angeles for as long as Los Angeles has been called “Los Angeles”. Attempts to measure the scale of human displacement have existed for nearly as long. L.A.’s modern homeless count started 20 years ago… …in 2005, with “ HC05 ” (or Greater Los Angeles Count/GLAC #1 ). Thanks for reading roofless! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. “ HC24 ” or...

January 2023’s PIT Count (HC23/GLAC #13) final results were announced in June, but localized data like Council District and dwelling totals were withheld. On June 29th, L.A. Mayor Karen Bass stood flanked on either side by County District 3 Supervisor and LAHSA Commissioner Lindsey Horvath (former Mayor of West Hollywood) and the newly-appointed LAHSA CEO , Dr. Va Lecia Adams-Kellum (formerly CEO...

“Too close to home” When LAPD “knocked” on the door of my tiny home late in the morning on a weekday in August last year, I thought they were there to ask me about the incident that had occurred two nights’ prior. My unhoused neighbor had been rushed to the hospital in an ambulance in unknown condition. I had just heard him say “ Call 911! ” and take off running. Thanks for reading roofless! Subsc...