Eric Ares
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
LAHSA report finds that the City of LA's anti-camping ordinance (LAMC 41.18) is INEFFECTIVE when it comes to:
• Housing unhoused people AND preventing their return to encampments in 41.18 zones
Criminalizing homelessness does not solve it. It makes it worse. 🧵
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Over this weekend, several tenants at Hillside Villa received eviction notices. I am calling on Mr. Botz to work with my office to find a resolution and to immediately withdraw all evictions that have been issued to the tenants. My full statement below:
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Yesterday, our resolution calling on the City to explore social housing as a model to ensure safe, healthy, and affordable homes for all residents of Los Angeles passed in Council. 🧵
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These results are tragic, devastating and unacceptable. On any given night, more than 46,000 of our neighbors are unhoused in the City of LA and the vast majority are experiencing unsheltered homelessness.
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It's sad to see homelessness increasing, which is why we need stronger tenant protections in place to keep people housed!
David Wagner@radiowagner
NEW: Unsheltered homelessness in Los Angeles increased 14% over the last year. This year's count shows more than 75,000 people experiencing homelessness across L.A. County on any given night. via @LAist and @nicholasgerda: laist.com/news/housing-h…
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Today there will be a lot of news about numbers. Here are some others per @CHPCnews, including 521K rental unit shortfall & too many struggling tenants.
The homeless count # will go down when the # of policies protecting tenants & building/preserving affordable housing goes up.
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We found that the City does not have a list or map of all zones where it's illegal to park RVs overnight.
Last week, @cd1losangeles introduced a motion requesting data on vehicle dwelling, the Oversize Vehicle parking ban, and safe parking.
LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia@lacontroller
More Angelenos than ever live in RVs. (nearly 6,500 in 2022, up from 2,931 in 2020) There are only 18 safe parking sites in the City (404 spots total). Only 7 of those sites accept RVs (up to 150 spots) Yet the City's approach to the issue is to create zones to ban RV parking.
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Help us build a solution that responds to community need: TAKE OUR SURVEY TODAY! And please share with any renters you know, especially those who are struggling with rent debt: bit.ly/larentdebtsurv…
Spanish survey: bit.ly/LAdeudaderenta
#KeepLAHoused #HousingIsAHumanRight
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The first repayment deadline for the City of LA is coming up... for many, it's been a struggle to make current rent payments, let alone pay back debt accumulated during the pandemic.
If we don't address this debt, it could lead to another spike in evictions and homelessness.
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Right now, almost 300 THOUSAND households in the county of Los Angeles have some amount of rent debt...
We already know it's a big problem, but we need your help to get a better idea of how it is affecting our communities. 🧵 #KeepLAHoused #HousingIsAHumanRight
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Greg Abbott is using human beings for political theatre. These dangerous actions from far-right, weak-minded politicians who rely on stunts instead of actual leadership are exactly why we’re fighting to make LA a sanctuary city.
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LA was built by immigrants and it thrives because of immigrants. We will continue to be a place that values and dignifies all human life, no matter who they are or where they come from. LA is for all.
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The only thing that will stop these deaths is when @LACountyBOS finally shuts down MCJ & invests in proper mental health services & Pretrial reform.
Twin Towers & Men’s Central Jail are in CD1.
This isn’t a new emergency. I’m extremely disappointed in their lack of urgency.
Keri Blakinger@keribla
Two people may have died with hypothermia in the LA jails this past winter. How incredibly broken does... everything have to be for hypothermia-related deaths in custody to even be a possibility in Southern California??
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@AdamOfTheSmiths @eric_kelly @WGAWest @CalNurses @Shut_downAmazon @amazonlabor @AlexOKeefe1994 @stripstrikenoho The Variteks!
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I voted no on the budget today.
Budgets are a statement of values—and a budget that allocates one quarter of our entire budget to LAPD while underfunding every other department and service does not reflect my values or the values of my constituents.
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Majority of council prefers to waste money criminalizing people, instead of preventing theft from happening.
I’ll be using our city resources to install anti-catalytic converter theft infrastructure in the cars of our community members.
Because criminalization won’t work.
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An essay I wrote for @MensHealthMag on teaching 4th Grade in the Age of School Shootings.
(And below, see 🧵, for some thoughts on what next)
menshealth.com/health/a434790…
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**Update: We’ve received an overwhelming amount of responses in our first 36 hours of opening the applications so we are moving up the deadline to April 13th.
Social Justice Partners LA@sjplosangeles
Announcing the $1M Wellbeing Fund for LA's homeless response sector workers! Apply for funds to support your wellbeing, in partnership with @CedarsSinai and @LAUnitedWay. sjpla.org/wellbeing-fund… #WellbeingFund #LAHomelessResponse #SupportingWorkers #ApplyNow #grantopportunity
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