A homeless encampment sweep is underway
in Van Nuys — and protestors are clashing
with the police. Should ‘tent cities’
be left alone?

No.

Did anyone check the mayor's or greasy's bank accounts for any of that $300 million. Thinking about it, how could they tell that grift from the multitude of others you know they have going on.

FTA: Launched in late 2022, Inside Safe is the cornerstone of Mayor Bass’s homelessness response. The program aims to clear encampments by offering motel rooms and services as a bridge to permanent housing. As of spring 2024: 2,482 people were brought inside from the streets. Only 440 transitioned to permanent housing. The program’s costs ballooned to over $300 million, with some estimates placing per-person spending at $96,000 Despite high costs, Mayor Bass has defended the program as a humane alternative to letting Angelenos “live in dangerous squalor.” Tjey have long found that many do not want to live inside. They want their stuff, their junk, their carts, their dogs, their freedom. And no required "sober living". This is why they have shunned the Union Rescue Mission and other similar facilities for as long as can recall. They gravitate to Calirornia because of its weather year-round. Maybe bus them to Alaska? It is outrageous for their tent city to be on a city sidewalk.

The problem is not real estate but culture. First step is to recognize and accept this fact. Otherwise the whole thing is a dead end.

The democrat party has screwed up California so much that smart monied people are leaving……and being replaced by people with no money! Good thinking!

They need places for these people to go, first. The whole point of this is to end their lawless interaction with the public. But for that you need shelter, sanitation and possibly people to see they stay where they've been assigned. And they need to be evaluated. Unless they are 'wards of the state' due to mental health issues, you cannot keep them from leaving against their will. There is going to be a lot of trouble over this.

We've had bums forever, we just didn't let them take over public spaces. We ran them out of town, arrested them or put them in mental hospitals, as required by individual cases.

Just like Hooverville; clean ‘em out!

I'm surprised that Frogface acually recognized a danger. Tent cities are fine as long as the residents support themselves, grow their own food, live in a sanitary way, pay for their utilities and do not require one dollar of taxpayer money. The homeless don't do any of the above. There is a reason that they are located within large populations and democrat-run cities, so they can parasite off the working people and beg or steal their drugs, food and money. I have a hard time believing that the homeless vote so why do democrats allow this filth where normal people live and work? Karen Bass is a joke and has personally driven Los Angeles into the dirt.

Loitering, vagrancy, indecent exposure, drug dealing, theft (among other things). Aren't there laws on the books against such things? Sheriff Joe Arpaio had an American prison in the middle of a desert made of tents while feeding inmates a bologna sandwich, a bottle of water and an apple or an orange for every meal - and pink undies to boot. Why can't similar tent prisons be set up on the outskirts of major cities (at least) to get the homeless off the streets with those who are strung out drying out, and those with mental issues be sent to an asylum for further treatment so the rest of us can get back to normal living?

Please. The new term is "un-housed individuals" used by the media. We used to call them bums and vagrants and the cops would run them out of town and they were not allowed to camp and defecate on city streets. There were some small camps back in the woods here but one was broken up when one of the "campers" was found dead. They don't want to go to jail and be cut off from their drugs and they don't want to be helped by our charity housing like the Salvation Army and others here because no alcohol and drugs are allowed. Help is available for the homeless who are genuinely down on their luck. It's not helping people by allowing them to live in squalor and filth by sympathetic and foolish leftists. Just the opposite. Places now called homeless encampments used to be called "hobo jungles" and those have always been with us but some cities now seem to be encouraging such things and have turned streets from formerly safe and clean places into s*******s.

The problem? Their alleged civil liberties are infringing on the personal safety of every American. The solution? Forced residence in tent cities in parking lots, and all the bread you can eat. Portacans for sanitation. And anyone who tries to relocate back to underpasses or sidewalks gets locked in. And that won't cost anywhere near the $300mm spent so far by Bass. There, I fixed it.

Gentle and respectful disagreement with #8. "Hoovervilles" happened during the Great Depression. Fifteen million otherwise capable and employable Americans could not find work because the jobs did not exist. There was an unprecedented 25% unemployment rate and no unemployment insurance because it did not exist. Welfare in its current form did not exist. Banks failed, and decent people were wiped out because federal deposit insurance did not exist. Meanwhile, teachers in Chicago kept teaching classes and trying to feed the children who were left with them despite being paid in worthless municipal scrip or not being paid at all. And destitute World War I veterans set up a "Hooverville" in Anacostia Flats in Washington, D C. to ask for early payment of the bonus awarded them by Congress. William Manchester's excellent narrative history, The Glory and the Dream, describes these people and events in painful, historically accurate detail. The people who lived through the Great Depression have nothing in common with the self-destructive addicts, the mentally ill, and the social parasites who occupy so-called "homeless" encampments today.