Photo Ops on Skid Row
Surfing around over on Downtown Central City East Blogger's site I saw this post:That time of year - POL Photo ops time in Central City EastFor anyone else spotting the activity, be sure to send us your tips and we'll start keeping the scorecard of who has and has not made the photo-op tour. And no betting on this, as the Mayor's odds on winning are off the charts.
I will be on the lookout this month and next to see which politicians will make it to the LA Mission and the Midnight Mission and the Union Rescue Mission and other missions during their holiday feasts for the homeless. I will keep the folks at Mayor Sam updated.
Let's be real. JAn Perry gets a pass go and get out of jail free card because she is always down here somehwere or another. So let's see after these many campaigns and elections who will be seen.
Posted by Anonymous @ 11/17/2005 06:37:00 AM
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Jose Huizar went into City Hall bathroom.
Film at 11.
Please the only reason Jan Perry goes down to skidrow is because she's trying to save face before she uses her muscle to move them to South LA and the Eastside. She is in bed with the developers. Do you really think they want homeless people around their multi-billion dollar projects?
For those who don't remember redistricting , Jan Perry said that if no one wanted skid row she would take it.
So many of the people who are resisiting her advances on Central City East were the same people who supported her during redistricting.
Some folks just don't understand the dynamics of central City East. SKid row isn't going anywhere. It will become more conmpact with laws being enforced, hopefully.
Skid row is the main source of drugs for South LA and the East side. People come here from there to score the dope and take it over there. Thus we need to change the dynamics of the area.
The homeless can not be pushed any where and with over 43 Single room occupancy hotels owned by private not-for profit devlopers , we sure as heak aren't going anywhere. They keep rehabiliatating these hotels even as I write.
JAn Perry does not hide the fact that Central City East exists.
Ignoring us is worse than pushing us around. At least if we get pushed around we can push back and fight for the things that are needed. Ignoring us means that the homeless issue is ignored.
Let me put it to you this way. The developers can't just displace people into the streets anymore. There is nowhere for anyone to go. SO in order fro them to get what they want they have to provide and lobby for the things the homeless need. You think AB 63 and other public monies coming down even the houisng trust fund for peramanant supportive housing is being done only by the low income advocates, it is being pushed by the wealthy developers.
Let's look at the dynamics now and not the dynamics of the past.
I can't argue with you with the fact that the developers don't want "poor" people around their multibillion developemnts. Tha is correct . I deal with that attitude on a daily basis.
Bathroom talk. Villaraigosa has already planned to move homeless people into Boyle Heights, El Sereno, Highland Park and South Central Los Angeles. Giving him room to redevelop billion dollar condos and for Bourgeois to live in without seeing a homeless person on their way to the overpriced condo. Jose H....thanks for winning this election. I understand why the mayor needs consensus. For a dumping ground. He doesn't give a shit about you CD14's and S. Centrals, he only gives a shit about him and his Tonto.
So then dgarzila, I assume you are pro clean money. That would eliminate the wealthy developer money being pumped into the campaing coffers of the candidate.
eventually
I'm guessing skid row will be the most visited location in the city come Thanksgiving. All these political bozos pander to the television talking about what they are going to do to end homeless, but I've heard the same rhetoric for the past 30 years.
Politicians will go around giving turkeys away to children and families, yet these families have no kitches, ovens or hot plates to cook this turkey.
How the politicans do something about the kids who live on skid row? According to the United Coalition East Prevention Project's recent study, 1/2 the kids on skid row have been cited for jaywalking or blocking the sidewalk by the LAPD? Instead of arresting the folks shooting heroin, they give tickets to kids, which then lead to warrants, which then exposes them to the criminal justice system.
Yet, politicans think giving turkeys away, is strategic public policy.
As some noted in the Daily News op-ed section, shame on the city of Los Angeles and shame on the mayor for not doing anything about it!
Walter Mathis
Clean MOney . Eh? You know to be honest with you this opens the door for the IES to increase. This is going to be a very big problem . ONe way or another there is always a strategy.
I am of the opinion , that now that the Wealthy developers are desperate , they will be pushing for more money for the poor , not their own money , but taxpayer money.
They fear one thing and one thing only, a moratorium placed on their development. IF they don't solve this problem first and try to push everyone out overnight , you can bet there will be a moratorium placed on their building.
But I don't know . You have the poor all over the southside and the eastside and the homeless. But the fear on the eastside i beleive stems from a different problem: racism.
SKid row is predominantly african american , thus folks on the estside fear them moving there. But let's be real , it looks like the westside right now is taking on the low income housing. , esp. hollywood.
I ahve to say , for all of the wondering if the politicians not solving these problems here. With the blogosphere telling it like it is especially , the opportunity for folks to speak anonymously on mayor sam . You will get the gods honest update of if these pols have followed through.
I will explain the changes that have taken place here over the years , so folks can understnad the history and why it has taken a long time to change things. It has been a long slow process. MOst of it has to do with arrogance. Esp people with lot's of money who think they can muscle this away overnight. I will write about it on my blog.
Keep pressing the kids issues.
True. Someone is dumping the homeless out of downtown to surrounding areas. As a resident of Eagle Rock, above Colorado Blvd. I woke up to a homeless person sleeping on my street. Scary, in the early morning hours, to walk out of my home to take my trash barrels out to the street and come face to face with someone who definitely doesn't belong. I noticed my trash had been gone through, and realized this person had been on my property while I was sleeping inside.
You might ask, "did you call the police?" Yes, but they don't send a police car because being homeless is not against the law. So, we are left to lump it. Every night now in my neighborhood we lock ourselves in tight in our homes and sleep with one eye open...
This has been going on for months now that I know about. And I have noticed alot of people in my community have this problem. Some have had knock on their doors late at night asking if they can use their bathrooms...pretty bold...you might think...
And because they refused these homeowners have woken up to find someone has relieved themself on their front porch or lawns...
This is a concern for many residents. I have lived here for years, and never have had this problem. No one has assisted us from City Hall. Our cries have fallen on deaf ears for the past months.
But now, reading in the above blog the homeless will be redirected to surrounding LA areas, they already are...our quality life is changed.
At night when there is a knock at our doors we hide...and if we hear someone walking around our homes we call the police and hope they come...
The Homeless have been around the surrounding areas for years. The reason. They don't want anything to do with the services in Central City East due to the lawlessness that pervades the area.
I have to be honest with you anonymous. As long as people continue to refuse to beleive we have a homeless problem and that teh dynamics here need to change , you will continue to see an increase in the surrounding areas of homeless. It has nothing to do with dumping in Eagle Rock, it has to do with the fact people refuse to beleive that the Central City East area needs to change .
If there is any dumping it is coming from the surrounding municipalities.
You know it is hard to beleive that you would be afraid of the homeless , And of course I am having a hard time beleiving somoene will knock on your door at all hours of the night asking to use the restroom.
Sounds to me like someone has a criminal scam going. That is something that needs to be reported to teh police.
I can't be that cruel . can I?
To me it doesn't matter if the person is homeless or not. You don't open up your doors to anyone you don't know early in the morning asking to use the restroom .
I think if this is going on in your neighborhood hopefully someone in City Hall who reads this MAyor sam site gets teh point that something is wrong.
I surely do not open the door to my room to anyone that late at night. Like I said it sounds like somoene is trying to get in who may not be homeless.
I lived in a upper middle class neighborhoood growing up and beleive me the police had no problems moving people along out of the neighborhooods, but we also had neighborhood watch signs posted everywhere and we looked out for each other as neighbors.
Central City East is a "containment" zone. Until the city realizes that affordable housing is a priority, the homelessness population will continue to grow. If you look at the USC data, woman and children are the fastest growing population on skid row. Also, although African-Americans make up a large percentage of the skid row population, the Latino population is rising. Why? Affordable housing. Newly arrived immigrants can't afford to live anywhere else in this city, so instead, they why on skid row in SROs.
The plight of children living in skid row is disatrous. What's even more disatrous is not providing services to them hoping, by not doing so, they'll go away. Mayor V needs to stop canoodling with AEG and their 1 billion entertainment center, and start focuing on the real issues in downtown LA.
COntainment is not working.
Once again I will explain how containment isn't only Central City East and how Containment is working in the Central City BUisniness IMprovement area bnoundaries ...IS.... Working. Give me tim I am trired right now.
Skid row is nothing if not an intentional place; it was designated and nurtured by the city fathers. In 1976, the LA Council adopted a redevelopment plan that included a "policy of containment." Those to be contained were the homeless, and the area they were to be contained in was the neighborhood known officially as Central City East. The policy did not suggest a walled ghetto, however, or a dismissive sealing away of the problems of the poorest. It was, instead, a response to those problems that ranked as enlightened compared with the policies of most other American cities at the time.
Archie Bunker is right!
Steve Lopez's five-part Los Angeles Times series recently brought readers face to face with Skid Row. But, people, it shouldn't take Lopez's story to open your eyes that there exists a third world country called skid row in our own backyard. Yet, the politicians refuse to do anything about it because they don't want to take the light away from the gentrification of downtown Los Angeles. So, politicos, stay under the radar as along as they can or until the Los Angeles puts the story on the front-page.
Mayor Villaraigosa is making all these promises about crime, education and traffic, yet, he has done anything in his own district to improve the living conditions.
The mayor and the city council need to inact new policy changes rather than make promise after promise.
Walter Mathis
Anyone know who owns San Julian Park? I know SRO Housing manages it, but is it city-owned?
Half truths anonymous. Half truths.
The policy of containment was a two part policy. Actually a two definition.
Containment meant preserving the SRO's in central City east when the City and the County sued each other over who was to take care of the homeless problem back in 1976 , But one factor they did not forsee was a woman by the name of Alice Callahan who sued to preserve the sros from being razed. Thus containment became a battle over definition.
But in light of recent events and watching how the gentrification process is happening . ONe does undersatnad that contianment isn't bout keeping people in. A SKid row contianment has been a failure since it's inception. The Contianment comes as a means of keeping ceratin people out of a certain section of Downtown Los ANgeles .
You see when you live downtown , you now that there are different rules for Central City East as averse to the West Side of Downtown, esp the CCity Central portion of Downtown Los Angeles. You will not see people smoking rock , weed , or prosituting themselves in that area of Downtown . The laws are enforced and the homeless or anyone who may even look the description are harrasssed to the point of being moved. The line is actually broadway and try to do these things here on the west side of HIll. It is not going to happen.
Contianment of the homeless and the so call skid row type people outside of the city center is actually succeeding. You see containment involves the whole city. I know it is hard to comprehend. Yes there are pan handlers in the central City area , but you notice not as many as in the areas surrounding the central city area. To think that this pressure has been there only recently is not right at all. The whole city has had the wool pulled over it's eyes thinking that skid row is the containment area. It is just the distraction. Just like if you want to have a decoy , it is a way of drawing certan people who would interfere with the City Central Areas clean cut business like appearance , People are drawn here instead. SO number one you don't enforce the laws in Central City East , so that those who would break the law in the central business district area are herded or harrassed into the central city east area. Or actually anywhere, north , south , east , and west , of the CIty business district of Downtown.
Containment is working and has been working for the business community of downtown since it's inception.
The whole city surrounding Downtown Los Angeles is the containment zone.
The thing is one has to take another look at what is realy going on and be an independent thinker to actually see this. This is the reason containment is not working in Central City East and it never has. Skid row is a smoke screen and has been a smoke screen to keep peoples minds in the surrounding communities which have more homeless than SKid row has in it on any one give night , so people thinkn that contianment is skid row and not their communities.
Wake up people!!!
Wake up!
If there ar 90,000 homless in Los Angeles County and we might have 9,000 on the worse case scenario in Central city East. Where are the rest?
Contianment has been a success and Los ANgeles bought it lock stock and barrel.
To see this concept you have to think of Central City East not as skid row but as a community , thinik of it in that light and you will see we are victim of the policies of the city center as much as any other community , but we are also victim of the other communities as well. Their nimby attitude.
I agree we have failed to acknowledge that skid row is a community just like Hancock Park and Bouyle Heights. And, dgarz, you're right. Central City East is a neighborhood not a containment zone. There are families, children who call CCE home. Let us not turn a blind eye to this story.
How are we, as citizens of LA, not outraged that LA is the homeless capital of the U.S.
oh and to those who voted for JOse HUizar.
I will support him in whatever he does as long as he is councilman.
the people have spoken. You put him in office.
But you know it is grand to now have the full city council back . With 15 members.
Archie,
Show your true colors, eh.
Give AV a chance.
No, Archie, I'm not hurting, but I also can't wait for another 7 years for someone to do something about skid row. I, too, am sick and tired of all the behind-the-scenes crap, but, Hahn wasn't doing anything about it. We need strong leadership in LA.
Actually HAhn was doing a lot about it.
Hahn helped get us the Commmunity center in central City east because he learned that the people who were going to change the dynamics here are the residents.
The James Wood Community Center is a place that allows for AA and CA meetings of all types and also gives us a place to do communtiy building .. Thus far since the building was opened , we have had two art fairs put on by residents, a candidates forum for CD 14 , a meeting when the funds for section 8 was having funding cut and we needed to know how that would affect us here and ANtonio Villaraigosa was herer and heard the people speak about how containment was a total and abject failure. Hahn helped us expand the midnight mission , at least he helped facilitate the move. Not to mention he was doing his best to increase the housing trust fund and extended the winter shelter program.
So HAHN was my nunmber one choice during the mayoral election and V was my second choice.
HAHN was the man .
NOw let's see what ANtonio does.
with the county now getting 200 some odd million dolars for the mentally ill , let's see what happens. I hope the city can stuck their two cents into the way that money is spent.
Homelessness is a political issue that has been below the radar for the past 40 years.
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