Street Watch LA

Fighting to empower + protect the rights of poor/unhoused tenants across LA 📸 Started by @DSA_LosAngeles & @LACANetwork 🌹☀️ #ServicesNotSweeps

[Street Watch LA @StreetWatchLA]

LA City Council says that sweeps are not happening, that they are not throwing away unhoused people's personal property, that these are just "service days."

We know that this is far from the truth.
#HomesNotZones #ServicesNotSweeps

[Vanessa Ramos @V_a_nessa_Ramos]

Just saying.
Despite what you’ve heard, Proposition 36 will not help people struggling with addiction https://t.co/yAyk3YLIUu

[Street Watch LA @StreetWatchLA]

@MrPissant2 @AdamOfTheSmiths So we are still using this hilarious gotcha in 2024 huh. Show us you dont understand the fact that there are more vacant units than houseless people in this city/country

[LA CAN @LACANetwork]

1/ Prop 36: a corporate agenda masquerading as reform, a thread…

[Lex Steppling @LexStepp]

Little bits of freedom get fought for, then they come under attack, then the “advocates” come and try and negotiate. Don’t give any of it back.

[Street Watch LA @StreetWatchLA]

@hrw and Gavin Newsom wants to waste our money, time, and lives continuing the same cruel expensive failed policies

[Street Watch LA @StreetWatchLA]

Don’t let the poor-hating politicians fool you when they say “we don’t criminalize homelessness.”

[John Raphling @JRaphling]

We found that 38% of all LAPD arrests/cites were of unhoused people. Nearly every infraction was for an unhoused person. Crimes like drinking in public, violating park rules, littering, jay walking, sex work. So much of policing is devoted to this and is completely unhelpful.

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

Los Angeles city government has pursued a cruel, expensive, and ineffective policy of criminalizing people’s unhoused status through arrests, tickets, and property destruction.

New film and report out on the cruel and ineffective criminalization of unhoused people in LA ⤵️

[Street Watch LA @StreetWatchLA]

LASD and Board of Supervisors at last months Grants Pass discussion: we WILL👏NOT👏criminalize homelessness
Also LASD and Board of Supervisors: move along (to another district) or we’ll👏arrest👏ya

[Alice Wong 王美華 @SFdirewolf]

If you live in California and are planning to voting in the primary in the next few days read this op-ed by Katherine Wolf on Prop 1 which will force houseless people into institutions, a return of asylums

https://t.co/3UaxNUcps4

#CAPrimary #CripTheVote #Election2024

[Ktown for All 💜❤ @KtownforAll]

One other lie of omission from Krekorian: he is correct that LAHSA is not a city agency, but he is full of it when he says the city has "no control" over LAHSA. Notably, the Mayor appoints half of its governing board. The City exercises indirect control over LAHSA all the time.

[Ktown for All 💜❤ @KtownforAll]

Krekorian, in a 2021 letter to the public, promised a "robust street engagement strategy" to go along with the law. Despite this promise, as LAHSA notes, Council provided no funding for services during encampment clearance. They didn't even include basic reporting requirements.

[Ktown for All 💜❤ @KtownforAll]

City Council Paul Krekorian responds to the controversy around the LAHSA/CAO reports on 41.18. @PaulKrekorian's response is unconvincing at best, and deceptive at worst. You can see it here:
https://t.co/JLtkrDnscb

[Unrig LA @UnrigLA]

Paul learned from the best

[uclagrad.bsky.social has moved to BlueSky @UCLA_Grad]

Krekorian's lengthy statement does not address a vital point in the @LAHomeless report:
94% of people experiencing #homelessness at #encampments targeted for removal under 41.18 wanted shelter.
Only 18% were able to get it.

[Lexis-Olivier Ray @ShotOn35mm]

Paul used the word 'demagogue' not once but twice in this nine paragraph statement.

[Street Watch LA @StreetWatchLA]

Sweeps are banishment and there’s literal border lines to prove it

[LA CAN @LACANetwork]

https://t.co/9A7sisBYcy Yesterday, LA CAN released its 41.18-report, “Separate and Unequal” demanding that the City of LA release its 261-day overdue assessment of the law. Today, a copy of the hidden report was leaked, confirming our writing. Pressure bursts pipes!

[Ktown for All 💜❤ @KtownforAll]

City Hall has been suppressing a report on the failures of 41.18, LA's primary law for criminalizing homelessness. It turns out that you can't arrest your way out of homelessness.
https://t.co/OOwx5ajIef

[Jon peltz @JonnyPeltz]

"94% of people at encampments targeted for removal under 41.18 wanted shelter. Of those, only 18% were able to get housing":

https://t.co/QoYWoeklcS

[Street Watch LA @StreetWatchLA]

While Traci Park and John Lee honor chief Moore we’re at city hall with @LACANetwork to ask council where the 41.18 report they called for 261 days ago is. While they continue to criminalize, LACAN worked w/houseless folks to produce their own report on 41.18 #SeparateAndUnequal