It's so bad. Cops don't come if they're on private property. I lived at an apartment building with private parking and would have to clean used needles and never-ending amounts of trash off of the walkway to my girls car when she was pregnant with our son. Random homeless people would show up and set up camp on our property, smoke crack, sleep in the middle of the walkway to our cars. The only recourse was to call a number that didn't do anything. The city would have someone drive by like a week or so after a call, they were never there when they'd drive by.

When our son was born we couldn't even take him for a walk around the block without entire sections of sidewalk being blocked off by homeless people that had literally taken over entire sections of sidewalk and benches and had trash and personal belongings strewn from the beginning of the sidewalk all the way to the curb and would either be sleeping or getting loaded in broad daylight. Thing is, we didn't live in a bad area either.

When I moved to LA the homeless problem was bad. When we left LA there was a homeless encampment under just about every single bridge/overpass. Not just one or two tents. More. It is difficult to grasp just how widespread it is. You wouldn't believe it unless you've seen it... & yet they do NOTHING.

It's so bad. Cops don't come if they're on private property. I lived at an apartment building with private parking and would have to clean used needles and never-ending amounts of trash off of the walkway to my girls car when she was pregnant with our son. Random homeless people would show up and set up camp on our property, smoke crack, sleep in the middle of the walkway to our cars. The only recourse was to call a number that didn't do anything. The city would have someone drive by like a week or so after a call, they were never there when they'd drive by.

When our son was born we couldn't even take him for a walk around the block without entire sections of sidewalk being blocked off by homeless people that had literally taken over entire sections of sidewalk and benches and had trash and personal belongings strewn from the beginning of the sidewalk all the way to the curb and would either be sleeping or getting loaded in broad daylight. Thing is, we didn't live in a bad area either.

When I moved to LA the homeless problem was bad when we left LA there was a homeless encampment under just about every single bridge/overpass. Not just one or two tents. More. It is difficult to grasp just how widespread it is. You wouldn't believe it unless you've seen it... & yet they do NOTHING.