The city of Los Angeles agrees to pay $645,000 to settle a lawsuit that claimed L.A. sanitation workers stole or destroyed property of homeless people during periodic clean-up efforts in the city’s sprawling Skid Row area. Do homeless people have a Constitutional right to squat on public property, stockpile pallets, refrigerators and other scavenged items, and generally drag down property values and tourist appeal?
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L.A. Pays Homeless $645,000 to Settle Skid Row Property Rights Case
The city of Los Angeles agrees to pay $645,000 to settle a lawsuit that claimed L.A. sanitation workers stole or destroyed property of homeless people during periodic clean-up efforts in the city’s sprawling Skid Row area. Do homeless people have a Constitutional right to squat on public property, stockpile pallets, refrigerators and other scavenged items, and generally drag down property values and tourist appeal?
9 replies on “L.A. Pays Homeless $645,000 to Settle Skid Row Property Rights Case”
In one respect, I have to commend the denizens of “Hooverville” for asserting their allodial property rights. It’s even more amazing they didn’t even need to show title to their “property” to win their case. If only the rest of us who do have clear title could benefit from this clear violation of the people’s allodial right to private property. I also have to commend the shrewd lawyers who fleeced L.A. out of $645k.
I have a much simpler solution. You hire a bunch of homeless people to act as the “p*ss and sh*t brigades”, hire a bus to bring them to do their business in front of the houses of the lawmakers and their biggest donors and see how long this behavior remains legal.
Bonus points if you capture on film their private security harassing the brigades
There is an answer. Mentally ill people can be treated. Drug users can be treated. If all LA does is clean up the mess, over and over, there is no end in sight. They’ll spend less money in the long run if they do it right. Providence, Rhode Island is doing it right. Perhaps the politicians would like a junket to Providence. They might learn something.
Where does the whole thing about the government having responsibility to monitor and deal with situations that would impact public health come in? With people living around a piles of their “belongings”, including anything imaginable much of which is being urinated and defecated on and is attracting rodents with their fleas carrying associated disease, it would seem to me the government would have a vested interest in taking care of the problem. Remember in history class learning about Europe in the 1300’s when the plague killed between 75 and 200 million? Or maybe we just need to relearn the lesson. Well looks like the lawyers just took another pile of tax money.
How much of the money goes to the homeless?
May I just say that I appreciate the little blurbs/comercials that Scott tacks onto the end of these pod’s. I especially appreciate the space to say what I want and trust that others won’t use my words or opinions against me at some later date, or store up analytics about me (like Facebook or others) that they can then sell them to other companies, political machines or anyone else.
I am free to be me, to expose myself (especially thru the blogs).
Please, please, Bill & Scott (and Steve!), keep it that way!
Thanks, Grace. That’s the plan.
Violation of privacy, property, and individual rights once was justified on the bases of “public health”. The theory was that a concentration of filth and lack of sanitation was a clear and present danger for the general public. Now, it seems that the homeless have a right to use public property without restriction and to have their trash and filth protected as private property was once protected.
For an uncounteble number of times, I am so very glad I left the state of California to its increasingly psychotic state. It once was a state of fruit and nuts but a good place to live and work. Now it is a state of total madness without any social redeeming features.
Here, here! or is that Hear, hear!
Unfortunately, I still live in California, but far, far (not far enough) from the madding crowds.
The desert used to be isolated, minimum 2 hrs to get anywhere ‘civilized’, meaning shopping and entertainment. But then they bused in migrants or otherwise poor people from elsewhere, and crime and trash followed, or accumulated.
Amazingly, we have homeless, too… but I think the majority of them are PTSD or otherwise un-sane. Amazing because the desert is a hard place to survive without shelter.