▲ 162 ▼ Displaced Los Angeles-area residents face spiking rents as authorities warn of price gouging (www.nbcnews.com) submitted 2 years ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world 21 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social -1 points 2 years ago (2 children) Aren't there a stupid number of homeless already in LA? Like hundreds of thousands? Seems to me to be more than enough could just organize and walk right into these empty residences permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) Like hundreds of thousands? No, why spread such bad info? This sounds like Fox news bullshit. https://www.lahsa.org/news?article=927-lahsa-releases-results-of-2023-greater-los-angeles-homeless-count permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 1 point 2 years ago Ok. 75k is way smaller than I thought, but enough that if they organized somehow they could get a lot accomplished by sheer numbers. But I don't exactly know where one would start. permalink fedilink source parent [–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) You can't walk right into a residence with a lock on the door and good luck smashing and climbing through the window of a 12th story apartment. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is the LockPickingLawyer and what I have for you today is... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago How do you guarantee you're picking the lock of an empty apartment or house? Who gets to decide who gets to occupy which home? What if three families all want to live in the same empty house? Do they fight it out? It's really not that simple. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) Like hundreds of thousands? No, why spread such bad info? This sounds like Fox news bullshit. https://www.lahsa.org/news?article=927-lahsa-releases-results-of-2023-greater-los-angeles-homeless-count permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 1 point 2 years ago Ok. 75k is way smaller than I thought, but enough that if they organized somehow they could get a lot accomplished by sheer numbers. But I don't exactly know where one would start. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 1 point 2 years ago Ok. 75k is way smaller than I thought, but enough that if they organized somehow they could get a lot accomplished by sheer numbers. But I don't exactly know where one would start. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) You can't walk right into a residence with a lock on the door and good luck smashing and climbing through the window of a 12th story apartment. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is the LockPickingLawyer and what I have for you today is... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago How do you guarantee you're picking the lock of an empty apartment or house? Who gets to decide who gets to occupy which home? What if three families all want to live in the same empty house? Do they fight it out? It's really not that simple. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) This is the LockPickingLawyer and what I have for you today is... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago How do you guarantee you're picking the lock of an empty apartment or house? Who gets to decide who gets to occupy which home? What if three families all want to live in the same empty house? Do they fight it out? It's really not that simple. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago How do you guarantee you're picking the lock of an empty apartment or house? Who gets to decide who gets to occupy which home? What if three families all want to live in the same empty house? Do they fight it out? It's really not that simple. permalink fedilink source parent