(Natural News)—Downtown Los Angeles has been likened to a “third world” area following the release of disturbing footage showcasing a homeless encampment, complete with open fires in the streets and sidewalks strewn with trash.
The alarming video, shared by Fox News reporter Bill Melugin on X, reveals numerous homeless individuals gathered on filthy sidewalks at the intersection of San Pedro Street and 6th Street in LA’s Skid Row neighborhood. Some are shown near open fires on the street, mere steps away from the Midnight Mission, a $17 million facility catering to the homeless.
Billionaire Elon Musk, known for his commentary on California’s homelessness crisis, simply reacted with “wow” upon viewing the footage.
Commenters on X expressed astonishment, with one stating, “Gavin Newsom’s California may be the wealthiest state, but its cities resemble those of Third World nations,” while another remarked, “If you didn’t tell us this was LA, we would think this was a city in a third-world country!”
The homeless population in LA currently exceeds 46,000 individuals, marking a 10 percent increase from the previous year, as reported by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.
LA, in particular, has witnessed a surge in homelessness since the onset of the pandemic, with over 10,000 more individuals living on the streets compared to 2019. Since 2015, homelessness in the city has risen by 70 percent. (Related: HOMELESSNESS in the U.S. reaches RECORD HIGH amid worsening economic downturn post-pandemic.)
The Midnight Mission, located just meters from the distressing scene captured in the online video, is facing severe strain on its resources.
The Mission provides three daily meals, temporary accommodation, a barbershop, and a women’s crisis center. However, despite their efforts, female homelessness in LA has spiked by 55 percent in three years, with over 90 percent of these women reporting experiences of physical or sexual assault.
To address the opioid crisis gripping Skid Row, the city has deployed mobile teams equipped with oxygen cylinders to prevent overdoses.
Meanwhile, workers from the non-profit organization Homeless Health Care Los Angeles traverse the streets, attending to individuals living among makeshift dwellings and witnessing dire health conditions, including substance abuse.
Los Angeles County has allocated a budget of $609.7 million to combat homelessness in 2023-2024, a $61.8 million increase from the previous year. Despite these efforts, Governor Gavin Newsom admitted last summer that the state’s homeless crisis was a “disgrace” and pledged additional resources.
During his tenure, homelessness in California has surged by 13 percent, prompting Newsom to acknowledge the challenges related to high housing costs, regulatory hurdles, and local opposition to new housing construction.
LA mayor faces big challenge
Following her election as mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass made a bold declaration that would serve as a defining measure of her tenure: “We are going to solve homelessness.”
The Democratic congresswoman, who was previously considered for vice president by Joe Biden, envisioned a transformed city with over 40,000 homeless individuals provided with housing and vital services to mend their fractured lives. “We are going to build a new Los Angeles,” she proclaimed.
Now, one year into her mayoral term, Bass reported that over 21,000 unhoused individuals were transitioned into leased hotels or temporary shelters in 2023, marking a 28 percent increase from the previous year.
Numerous drug-ridden street encampments were dismantled, and housing initiatives are underway. Yet, behind these promising statistics lies a harsh reality: this is merely the beginning.
Billions of dollars had been invested to address homelessness in the region, and new programs had been implemented. However, the mayor acknowledged the possibility of continued increases in homelessness, partly due to evictions and the cessation of Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) aid for low-income households.
While Bass has made progress, tackling LA’s homelessness crisis presents a formidable challenge. The city grapples with managing a potentially expanding homeless population, equivalent to the size of Palm Springs, without an efficient computer system capable of tracking individuals within it.
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Los Angeles *IS* a third world country.
…this is such a easy problem to solve…and the Democrats have the perfect solution…time tested and has worked everywhere it has been implemented…spend BILLIONS of taxpayers monies on foreign wars in the name of Democracy…spend more BILLIONS of taxpayers monies on social programs such as Diversity-Inclusion-Equality (DIE), spend more BILLIONS of taxpayers monies on expensive Transgendered Transitional Operations for the US Military, spend BILLIONS of taxpayers monies on unjustified and biased court proceedings on the most likely politically candidate (Trump) to thwart a landslide 2024 election that would annihilate the Progress-Liberal-Socialist-Liberal-Democrat-Party, spend Billions of taxpayer monies to transition our domestic vehicle usage from gasoline (which we have enough oil/natural gas under our feet) to electric vehicles that nobody wants or can afford that have minimal practical performance outside large cities, spend Billions of taxpayers monies on corrupt Federal Government Agencies such as the F.B.I., I.R.S., Homeland Security to name a few…yep ! problem solved !
Unhoused? Give me a break! We used to call them bums. These people have families but Democrats destruction of the family made this situation – plus drugs coming from our “friend” Mexico and China. $640 million? We give illegals money for free why not Americans? Temporary solution since soon enough the Democrats , the plague on our country, will destroy the dollar making us all rqually poor.
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I submit to any one who has been in California for the last, say, twenty years, that its not the homeless encampments thats made California citizens live in these third world conditions! Its the insane policies that the greedy left Demorats have created. These conditions are a direct result of the brain-dead fools who have run this State into the trash pit thst we all see today! I’ve lived here for seventy five years and can not believe what has been designed and allowed to fester over the last two decades!!
…I no longer visit California since Carter was President…every time there is a eastern wind blowing from Cali it brings to AZ a stink that smells like dirty socks and rotten politics…
Being born and raised in Reagan Republican centric Orange County, south of Los Angeles was a great.
Now that I live north of LA and have to travel through LA to get to OC, I feel dirty just driving through LA today (both directions).
There are so many LA street cretins, that on one drive home north in late 2023, in wet weather, WE could smell urine through the car vents as we hurtled through LA on I-5. It is beyond disgusting to have to experience that in America.
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I spent most of my life in Costa Mesa. Being homeless was not allowed. The westside apartments drug the place down big time.
Now I have seen that the Santa Ana river is a 30 mile long homeless camp.
What was “The place to be in the 60’s and 70’s.” Became The place to Flee.” by the late 90’s.
Having escaped to rural New Mexico; I can still smell low tide in the breeze from the west.
The effects of FDR’s policies are still dragging the state down 86 years after the fact.