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Landless in Los Angeles
by Ruth @roofless
Survival, justice and belonging for The Unhoused, 100% made in publicBy Ruth @roofless, host of weekly X Displacement Spaces (Sundays 7pm PST), an ongoing discussion for and about global displacement and local housing and homelessness roofless.substack.com
Episodes
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Hollywood’s HIGHLAND GARDENS Hotel has been housing the homeless since 2021...how’s it going?
The Los Angeles Mayor’s race between incumbent Karen Ruth Bass and District 4 Councilwoman-challenger candidate Nithya Raman largely boils down to nuances in their homelessness strategies. Bass’ signature Citywide Inside Safe program “ISP” and Raman’s single CD4 hotel shelter site, Highland…
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DEAD MEN DON’T SETTLE: #LAAlliance Resurrect Deceased Plaintiff in $2.2M City Deal
LA Alliance for Human Rights claims to hold the “homeless(ness) industrial system” accountable, a mission that appeals to the majority of people in Los Angeles, (espescially readers of @roofless!) regardless of housing status. Audit The Government recently wrote about a City defense attorney’s...
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PITfalls of the 2026 “Point-In-Time” Count
This article was written by Ruth, who lives on the streets of LA. 🆘 Councilwoman Nithya Raman has targeted me for yet another sweep on Monday, 8/3 🚜 Thanks for reading roofless! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. 🚐 If you can help move my belongings into a van on…
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ROBBING HOODS: For forcing destruction of 9,800 dwellings, #LAAlliance got $7M
Homeless people of Los Angeles “audited” #LAAllianceforHumanRights. We discovered a back-dated amendment to the City’s 2022 settlement agreement which essentially put bounties on our dwellings. For the City and County of LA to comply with LA Alliance for Human Rights’ 2022 settlement agreement…
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“like, I really believe in government!” #LAMayor Challenger NITHYA RAMAN makes Runoff
With her face framed by giant Labubus, and possibly a Funko figurine wearing a colorful hat, Mayoral candidate and District 4 Councilwoman Nithya Raman sat side-by-side with popular Los Angeles-based Twitch streamer Hasan Piker to promote the Council District 4-elect’s late decision to launch her...
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🆕 Inside Safe AUDIT
I’m Ruth and I live outside in Los Angeles. This article follows-up on one I wrote in October 2023: 🔗 All data is linked at the end of the article, so you can check it out and draw your own conclusions! Please let me know what you think in a comment. 66% of people who enrolled in Inside Safe are...
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“The HACKLA” 2 • Reclaimer Benito Flores
70-year-old Benito Flores uses a square frame in his tidy, green front yard as a mini-billboard to oppose state violence: “KEEP FAMILIES TOGETHER.” —Reclaimer Benito Flores’ sign PRESS RELEASE Mr. Flores has no rent debt. He has no behavioral issues. He has a codified right to purchase the home...
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The HACKLA
I’m Ruth roofless. I’ve been unsheltered in the City of Los Angeles continuously since 2017. I write about corruption and housing policy from the streets and host live Displacement X Spaces discussions on Sundays at 7pm PST on Twitter, where I’m @rooflesser. Federal Housing Choice Vouchers…
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#UnitedtoHouseLA SPEECHLESS after Ava’s public comment
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A tale of two Venice parking lots
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Venice “A Bridge Home”
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Advocating for Ava
I’m Ruth and I’ve been living in public in the City of Los Angeles for around eight years. I’m one of Ava’s many advocates (including Ava herself!) trying to facilitate her transition into sustainable, dignified housing. For those who participate in the 2025 Greater Los Angeles Count, which has...
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“Just for the record…”
The passage of County Measure A in the November elections committed an estimated $1 billion in additional sales tax revenue for homelessness services and affordable housing initiatives. Two bodies now exist to administer these funds, which will be available for collection on April 1, 2025 (no...
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“Vertical Integration” for the Unhoused
Los Angeles City council member Nithya Raman sat resolutely and declared in City Administrative Officer “CAO” Matt Szabo’s Homeless Strategy Committee meeting on December 9th to staffers from the Housing Department (LAHD), Housing Authority “The HACLA,” and Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA)…
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“Somehow at some point” Part 2
“Somehow at some point” parts 1 and 2 were originally published together by CityWatchLA in their newsletter on December 5th, 2024. I’m Ruth @roofless and I write about homelessness and housing in the City of Los Angeles. I’ve lived on the streets here continuously for seven years and first...
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“Somehow at some point” Part 1
“Somehow at some point” parts 1 and 2 were originally published together by CityWatchLA in their newsletter on December 5th, 2024. I’m Ruth @roofless and I write about homelessness and housing in the City of Los Angeles. I’ve lived on the streets here continuously for seven years and first...
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“The Rocky Horror Picture Show"
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved by a vote of 4-0-1 a motion to study the feasibility of creating a new homelessness response agency on November 26, right before the Thanksgiving holiday. As noted by Los Angeles Times journalist Doug Smith writing on the notable approval, the...
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“Looking for Unicorns”🦄
Finding housing in Los Angeles isn’t easy, much less finding the perfect units for potential tenants within a building. At the City Administrative Officer’s (CAO) pivotal Homeless Strategy Committee meeting on Thursday, November 7, Assistant City Administrative Officer Edwin Gipson remarked that…
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I don’t want to live in a world without Palestinians.
“keep talking about me” 19-year old Mohammad “Moe” (he/him) has enchanted the cat-loving Internet with a gut-wrenching rollercoaster ride involving his aloof ragdoll cat, Leo, as they dodge quadcopters and IDF tanks in Gaza. In September, Moe’s cat, Leo (to whom Moe refers using both he/him and...
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“This Didn’t Happen Overnight”
The City of Los Angeles is in deep trouble, and all the finger-pointing in the world won’t solve it, much less presentations and proclamations. Los Angeles City Hall is a world away from Agoura Hills where developer Izek Shomof was recently cited on October 21, for violating Los Angeles County...
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“A Big, Fat Grenade”
“Leadership in L.A., someone is going to have to fall on a big, fat grenade to really change the way housing is produced,” read the quote from “economist and co-director of the RAND Center on Housing and Homelessness,” Jason Ward, in the Los Angeles Times story by journalists Doug Smith and Liam...
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“A Failure of Moral Judgment” – Judge Carter & the Crisis of the Unhoused
“The City of Los Angeles is undoubtedly going broke,” warned Controller Kenneth Mejia on September 26 in social media posts on Instagram and X, formerly known as Twitter: “In the last year, the City has spent HALF its RESERVES,” he wrote, noting that: Thanks for reading roofless! Subscribe for…
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EXPOSED LAPD slush fund for “Interim housing-Homeless services”
$100/hour for 10 continuous years One of the Los Angeles Police Department’s many overtime sources amounts to 88,353 hours, or 10 continuous years of 24/7 overtime at $8.36M. The account, earmarked for housing and services for homeless people, seems to keep replenishing, only to get diverted away...
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How are Pacoima’s Paxton Pilot Programs performing?
Newsom on the News, MRod: “a noose” At the beginning of August, Governor Gavin Newsom materialized under I-5 to help Caltrans abate an unremarkable pile of litter. Taking the “sweep” assignment literally, he was filmed flourishing an actual broom before tossing it atop a modest trash heap, where…
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Housing is Healing is a Battle
“The VA is doing everything possible to help veterans and their families remain in their homes…” —Veteran Sarah Kallassy in a video that appeared on the US Department of Veterans Affairs’ official YouTube channel three weeks ago. On Friday, September 6, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter’s...
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THOSE NO GOD HERE: The Worst Motel in LA
“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…
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“Something is Better Than Nothing.”
🇻🇦 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...
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The Heartbreak Industry of Los Angeles
“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...
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#LAAlliance Compliance Hearings Continue
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…
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CHECKING OUT L.A.’s shelter motels
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…
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4118 🚩 Rousting Angels for a Century
🔔 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.…
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“If you build it, (t)he(y) will come.”
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...
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OCEANWIDE PLAZA HUSKS have names: Edward, Jianqiao “Jean” & Mickey
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....
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American Adult, Involuntary Interruption, Theraputic Trauma
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…
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When will we finally know how many homeless people there are?
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)....
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EXCLUSIVE! LAHSA withheld 2023 Homeless Count data at USC’s advice. 👁️See it here👁️
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…
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UNHOUSED, UN-ALIVED, UNSOLVED: Homeless homicides +46X in 12 years
“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...
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