Unhealthy, terrible living conditions, overcrowded, demoralized, vulnerable.... and yet? This issue is so obvious. And I completely forgot about it for such a long time. 1047 homeless people died out of 52,765, in Los Angeles, in 2019. In 2020 in L.A., less than 1000 died. By 2021 the population is estimated at 161,548.
If you try to find out how many how many covid deaths there are in 2021 so far among that population, the figure is mysteriously absent in online articles. It appears to me that the homeless people in Los Angeles have not cooperated with the pandemic death toll very well at all. If you go to L.A now after not being there for a few years, the place swarms with street dwellers like a stirred up ant colony. It is like WW Z without the zombies.
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True. But I did hit rock bottom at a point, and this is just the progress back up, so far. For me, my thinking on this is not from the outside looking in. There is definitely a difference between, "hipster vacation", retirees, "houseless functional", people having a tough run of luck and needing help -- and then the fully "derelict". I consider it all related based on my experience with tbe homeless. Even hipster vacationers are running on fumes if they think #vanlife is going to save them from a broken system and dysfunctional society. It aint. Eventually the regurgitations of #vanlifers sounds a lot like "you will own nothing, and you will be happy."
Infact, it all leads back to that global vision. Like so many other problems today.
I will buy land, as much as I can in my lifetime. But no houses.