Sunday, January 28
LA's Homeless blog on Homeless count
It seems our LA homeless blogger , the first one in LA to be exact , has something to say about the homeless count and what does he say. The End results will be politics as usual :
--------Checking out 6th and San Pedro-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Looking North to 6th Street on the East Side of San Pedro I am amazed that there is no one there at all . but it did rain. 10:30 am
Southwest Corner of 6th Street and San Pedro 10:30 Am
Considering the recent articles in the LA Times in which Orlando Ward explains that there have been many changes on the corner of 6th and San Pedro and that the Safer Cities Intiative is having a positive impact on the neighborhood., I thought I would take some photos out on that corner. Pretty dangerous out there today taking photos.
I am amazed at the amount of people flipping me off , sneering at me , following me and asking someone if I know them , and of course I do. Well , needless to say that there have been some improvements in that area , at least for today and a weekend at that.
I mean just taking pictures of the automated public toilet had some people in front of the LA Mission pretty Nervous.
With so many video cameras on the corners of buildings connected directly to the Central Division station one only need to realize that they are being watched every day. It is interesting to note that they are worried about my one little camera. Maybe what we need to do is start having a day where we bring people to take pictures of the neighborhood. HMMMM........... The supreme court has already ruled on this... Street art is not a violation of privacy. Might make them even more nervous. And this is the problem.....you not only make the drug buyer who comes here to score their weed or dope nervous , but you also make those who come down here looking for help nervous.
Los Angeles City Council names Names Feb. 7 Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day... "WE have a crisis on our hands..." Jan Perry Los Angeles City Council 9th Council District
The Los Angeles City Council has named Feb 7th Black HIV Aids Awareness Day.
It seems our LA homeless blogger , the first one in LA to be exact , has something to say about the homeless count and what does he say. The End results will be politics as usual :
So the question of whether homeless people will effectively count homeless people is actually moot. The question to really ask is this... Since the final tally will be simply an estimate, will city and county officials decide L.A. is getting better (less homeless), getting worse (more homeless), or just more of the same? It's a highly political decision.
After the County has spent over $100 million to address homelessness, LAHSA spends $60 million per year, and the City of L.A. is investing millions on Permanent Supportive Housing, my guess is that the final number will be lower. To show the public that things are getting better, after the millions and millions of dollars invested.
--------Checking out 6th and San Pedro-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Looking North to 6th Street on the East Side of San Pedro I am amazed that there is no one there at all . but it did rain. 10:30 am
Southwest Corner of 6th Street and San Pedro 10:30 Am Just a few months ago, the southeast corner of 6th and San Pedro streets was a drug bazaar nestled amid cardboard boxes, tarps and tents.It was a place where men and women in bedraggled clothes with leathery skin and uncombed hair hung out as a woman in a wheelchair slyly sold heroin to passing motorists.
Midnight Mission official Orlando Ward said he could look through his office window and see the decaying cardboard encampments stretching for three-quarters of a block, with some of their dwellers shooting up drugs in broad daylight with few consequences.
Today, all the camps on the block are gone, along with much of the drug dealing and violence that came with them.
Usually, Ward said, people slowly return after an area is cleared out.
But not this time. At least not yet.
Five months into the Los Angeles Police Department's crackdown on crime in skid row, there is little doubt that the neighborhood is changing.
Last year, the district that for decades led the city in drug crimes recorded an 18% decline in major crime — more than 1,000 fewer incidents, according to LAPD figures.
I am amazed at the amount of people flipping me off , sneering at me , following me and asking someone if I know them , and of course I do. Well , needless to say that there have been some improvements in that area , at least for today and a weekend at that.
I mean just taking pictures of the automated public toilet had some people in front of the LA Mission pretty Nervous.With so many video cameras on the corners of buildings connected directly to the Central Division station one only need to realize that they are being watched every day. It is interesting to note that they are worried about my one little camera. Maybe what we need to do is start having a day where we bring people to take pictures of the neighborhood. HMMMM........... The supreme court has already ruled on this... Street art is not a violation of privacy. Might make them even more nervous. And this is the problem.....you not only make the drug buyer who comes here to score their weed or dope nervous , but you also make those who come down here looking for help nervous.
Los Angeles City Council names Names Feb. 7 Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day... "WE have a crisis on our hands..." Jan Perry Los Angeles City Council 9th Council District
The Los Angeles City Council has named Feb 7th Black HIV Aids Awareness Day.
Five national nonprofit organizations first recognized the day in 2001 after receiving funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to the CDC, blacks accounted for 49 percent of the 42,514 estimated AIDS cases diagnosed in the United States in 2004.
"We have a crisis on our hands with the HIV/AIDS epidemic," Councilwoman Jan Perry said. "Unless we control this epidemic, this crisis will be felt in every community, regardless of their economic status ... let's work together to combat this epidemic."
