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@RoofLesser
🗣️ Sun 7pm Displacement Spaces🔋battery permitting 🪫🚫 Donations 💸 Pay it Forward ⏭ ❤️‍🩹 NO ONE DOESN’T BELONG ⛺️🛒 #freeGaza 🇵🇸
May 19 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
CW This is gonna sound gross but all the unhoused people I know have MRSA/staph abscesses on our legs that get stuck to our jeans and make a very painful irritating situation that keeps reoccurring... Is there a medical supply or treatment known for this very particular issue?? I'm thinking like nonstick pads or something? They can get more even more inflamed or irritated if too dry or harsh cleaners like undiluted peroxide are used on them

I find they do best when exposed to air but most of us like to wear jeans bc we r in public too much for shorts.
Jan 28, 2023 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
I’m waiting on 2022 numbers for W&I § 5150s that were carried out by LAPD, but here’s what I learned about the 2018-2021 figures that were provided to me via CPRA/FOIA on City of LA @nextrequest An orange pill capsule with +5150 LAPD printed in it by @rooflesser 51,404 total W&I § 5150 psychiatric holds were used by LAPD over 4 years (2018-2021)

72-hour involuntary psychiatric evaluations don’t count as arrests & you don’t need to be accused of a crime or have nearly as much “probable cause” to be placed under a 5150 by LAPD. Area graph illustrating 51,404 total W&I § 5150 psychiatric holds used by LAPD over 4 years (2018-2021)
Jan 28, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Don’t forget to go to your inbox & validate! Public Comment Submission Validation Your Public Comment is Since @mhdcd8 is PLU Chair, it may be worth framing the opposition of the Bethune Marriott (hate typing that) along with calls to NOT demolish a perfectly good 150-room hotel, Sportsmen’s Lodge on Ventura Boulevard not far from where at least 4 unhoused people perished this week. more.song@lacity.org CPC-2021-7012-DB-MCU P-WDI-SPP-SPR-VHC
Jan 27, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Can you help me write to a judge that wants to criminalize homelessness? I am homeless & he wants to make it illegal sit in public. Please include a quote about belonging. Your Honor, I understand that you are considering criminali Alt txt 2….To quote philosopher Erich Fromm, "Belonging is the essence of being human, the basic need and drive in human life." We must continue to recognize that all members of society have the right to belong, and criminalizing homelessness is antithetical to its achievement.
Jan 11, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
“Why I hate art made children in 2000 PAYWALLED words” Robin’ the Poor Abcarian of LATimes PAYWALLED op-Ed hall o made BY children*

Exposure to nu-Bog Witch Think Tank crit lit is making me 🤪

disco.very.org/leadership/blo…

From Debra’s 10/13/22 DI piece, “Uncle Sam Enabling Homelessness — Not Ending It”:

“A not small percentage of homeless adults first experienced homelessness as children.”
Jan 8, 2023 • 12 tweets • 26 min read
@keriezy @dondisappoints @EpicBootyFire @ambrishrk @dottiegw @randallwoodfin @shaunking As @dondisappoints said they aren’t popular - not because they aren’t better than tents - but because it’s not a voluntary upgrade from a tent. No one has ever approached a person in a tent with a Tiny Home in-situ. They are only ever “offered” immediately before or after a sweep @keriezy @dondisappoints @EpicBootyFire @ambrishrk @dottiegw @randallwoodfin @shaunking
Dec 27, 2022 • 51 tweets • 21 min read
Now! twitter.com/i/spaces/1vAxR… @leahfrombklyn introduced issue of affordable housing not being accessible to everyone even once constructed & with voucher in hand. Racism & discrimination are often not acknowledged. Leah invited people to speak & 1st speaker wants to treat Black displacement as catastrophe.
Dec 25, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
There were 2,708 more PEH in LA County in Feb 22 as there were 25 months prior, in Jan 20. (+4%)

1,988 PEH died during Year 1 of COVID-19 (Apr 20 - Mar 21). In 2021, 1,612 PEH died. Jan-Mar 2021 overlap, but Jan-Mar 2020 aren’t included, & nor are Jan-Feb 22, so I’ll add the 2 That’s a perfect 3,600 to approximate PEH deaths in LA County between the 2020 & 2022 PIT Counts.

That means homelessness decreased by 5.4% during that 25-month timespan due to PEH death.

That also means the 4% increase was actually +9.4%
Oct 19, 2022 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
In January, an LAPD officer resigned after it was revealed that he/she/they:

“On and off duty, maintained an inappropriate social relationship with a certain citizen, who employee knew or should have known, was involved in illegal activity with a criminal street gang….”…THEN, “During a compelled interview, provided a false statement to Department investigators when employee stated that certain citizen was never invited to their birthday party.”🥳😳😤
Sep 26, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
I think “wrap-around services” are an expensive lie that:
-Allow homeless housing nonprofits (which should not exist, because they are redundant. Housed homeless people are simply “people”.) to charge 2x market rents
-Tell housed neighbors not to check up on the residents’ needs -sugar-coats the heavy surveillance residents are likely under & the paternalistic structure that NP’s implement
Sep 26, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Reminder that an unhoused man and woman living in two tents on a sidewalk were struck by a car and killed in early August,

right as LAMC § 41.18 was being expanded to tell us over 1000 more sidewalks we cannot live on.

Also: The car that lost control was being chased by LAPD.😧 It was Wednesday August 3 at 12:40pm. The woman was asleep in her tent & the man was in a tent next to her.

“Meanwhile, a witness told ABC7 she saw the suspect getting chased by police. She said the crash happened when he hit the corner.”
Feb 19, 2022 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
2 years? Amber Guyger got 10 for murdering Botham Jean, Mohamed Noor got 12.5 for murdering Justine Damond bc they just got thrown a bone…a lower threshold “worst case scenario”
Feb 17, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
I made it into the @LACityParks @laparksfndtion Commission Agenda. My comments about internal displacement were not referred to the General Manager.

Yet all the housed people playing poverty paparazzi’s who emailed creepy zoomed-in photographs of current encampments got to GM. ImageImage laparks.org/sites/default/…
Feb 17, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️
In 30 min, at 7:00, Studio City Neighborhood Council will meet to support a bunch of horrible motions including:

-ticketing & towing RV’s

-DECREASING the threshold for Grand Theft

-Arming Park Rangers @ericpreven

PLEASE show up & oppose 🙏 ens.lacity.org/ensnc/studioci…
Dec 9, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
CAN WE PLEASE TALK ABOUT AFFECTED VS ADJACENT STAKEHOLDERS??

If you’re banning homeless people from public in a Homelessness Committee Meeting with 3 unhoused people present, you’re ALL adjacent to the issue except for the 3 unhoused people - the only people with stake to lose! The stake that we have to lose is only decades off our lives.
Dec 9, 2021 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Lmfao I’m on your side unhoused person, I’m a developer🤪 your experience is wrong though Developer, landlords are MY problem, not supply, of which I (unusually I know) have a decent amount of + more on the way. It’s NO PROTECTION from displacement in the meantime and NO GUARANTEE that the system will “match” me with those units and impending criminalization…& rain
Dec 8, 2021 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
With all the encampments that have been broken up & PRK’s that kicked people out, drove people to leave, relocated &/or prematurely shut down, + Encampment2Home, Tiny Shed Villages & now LAMC 41.18 criminalization, it has been very hard for the displaced to get & stay in contact. It is hard to know if something has happened to someone when they don’t/can’t have a “home base”, (anything: a spot in public where they are known to sit or sleep, or a corner where they fly a sign 🪧, or where they stash their belongings…) because they are being criminalized…!
Dec 8, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Pallets, blocks & boards below you & tarps above!! & all your bedding, clothes & papers in big clear plastic bags, if possible! Make yourself a little cave & keep your electronics in a Zip-lock!! Keep warm with wool, down, & Mylar + layers! Stock up on food & drinks + 💦 cups! You’ll be okay as long as you don’t get wet. Hopefully you have a whole, intact tent with a rain fly + a tarp or a decent roof on your shed/tiny house + a tarp. If you’re in a non-leaky vehicle just stay warm & dry. Everyone who died of hypothermia in LA was damp💔🥶[@ShotOn35mm]
Nov 17, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Was it the son of a longtime Chamber of Commerce President??? Or an LATimes reporter???
Nov 17, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
LAPD #37285 just allowed @venicenc to violate the Brown Act by not taking any public comments on a presentation about stolen bicycles that perpetuated racist stereotypes.

It was an agenda item that did not specify that comments were to be submitted in advance.
@OIGLABOPC LAFD just violated as well. They announced that trash fires, rubbish fires and encampment fires are now the same thing to them. I mean tell us how you really feel.

LAFD invited suggestions then thanked the meeting Chair for not making them take any & dipped out, my hand was up
Nov 16, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Our current system IS A BOTTLENCK

People could go from encampments to permanent homes in their neighborhoods if vouchers were attainable & competitive + appealing to landlords! But they are not Doesn’t that look like a bottleneck to you??!!