How many are in LA? How many are already occupied? More to the point, how does destroying the very few belongings anyone has left in any way alleviate homelessness? How does chasing them out help?

You are idealizing freeway median tent encampments 💀

??? 🤨 No, I'm idealizing not throwing people's stuff away. How many people who are "cleared" in these "sweeps" actually get into any kind of shelter? Got any numbers on that?

What stuff man. There are social workers on site to make sure they take anything important like documents or prized possessions. What else is there? The social workers are there to help them get into transition housing or the hospital. Why do you think social workers are there to do harm???

Are there? I have yet to see an article that said that, so how am I to know? If there are, that's excellent; they should be. But every image you see is just stood getting shoveled into trash bags; a lot of people have reported having important papers, medications, or personal possessions trashed.

I'm not saying that emcampments are great, and that's a very weird assumption to take from what I am saying. Transition beds are a help, but there also needs to be affordable permanent housing; imo there needs to be less Air BnB; there needs to be rent control, there needs to be a lot of changes.

From last summer: "KTLA spoke with Jeff Levine, ... director of Long Beach Rescue Mission, a organization that provides services to unhoused individuals, and Dr. Margot Kushel, ... director at Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative at the University of California, San Francisco. (1/3)

“What we know from homelessness displacement or sweeps is that it does a fair amount of harm and disconnects the people from service providers. It removes people from their belongings, which includes sentimental things like people’s pictures of their families, medications and people’s documents, 2/3

some of which can prove their identity,” Kushel told KTLA. “A lot of harm can come from sweeps, and ultimately, if you don’t offer people a real outcome, they’re just going to have to move someplace else because they can’t dematerialize; they will show up someplace else.” (3/3)

There’s always going to be naysayers. A lot of this comes from the testimony of those who were asked to move—almost never trustworthy. The status quo is not acceptable. California is putting in the work to build out shelters and medical/social services. If addicts don’t want to make use of this…