Right in the center of Los Angeles is the city council building and the
police department across the road. Police officers can clearly see the scale
of the disaster from their office windows. Here are the rows of homeless
people's tents.
Office workers in expensive suits casually walk by the flies, the stench,
and those who hit rock bottom. Over the four years he's been homeless,
Philip's gotten used to indifference. He's an archeologist who lost his job
after getting sick and couldn't pay his mortgage.
“Bank representatives and two ushers told me that I had 30 days to move out
of my house. 30 days later, they came back and kicked me out onto the
street. That's America. It's all about the banks here. Until they get their
last payment, they can take your house at any time. That's capitalism.”
The number of homeless in California is growing, along with housing prices.
It's tripled over the past ten years. Officially, there are 60,000 hobos in
Los Angeles and 500,000 in all of America. One in four American hobos lives
in California. Homeless people using bonfires to heat up their food caused
awful fires last year. They have flooded the suburbs and streets of big
cities. In Los Angeles, the homeless have occupied the entire Skid Row
district. Syringes are scattered everywhere here, and the crime rate is off
the charts.
Police officers who respond to an emergency in Skid Row, Los Angeles, risk
getting shot, stabbed, or even infected. Officers who were patrolling the
streets of LA got diagnosed with typhus. Doctors sound the alarm on all
federal channels.
“Some experts say that bubonic plague may already be here. Three cases of
typhus; one confirmed, another two probable. That's unbelievable. I can't
believe it. This is not even third-world country level, this is medieval.
The entire population is in danger.”
The local news show piles of trash and rats that spread the infection around
the city. A city council lawyer got infected with typhus at her office.
“Who gets infected with typhus? That's a medieval disease caused by rotting
garbage.”
Liz Greenwood is now suing the city council. She estimated the typhus
compensation at five million dollars. The city council is rapidly cleaning
the streets. However, the homeless' tents are still there and so are the
rats.
- Have you seen rats?
- Hundreds. Every night. Let me show you. Come on over here. See that pipe
behind the tents?
They're everywhere downtown. Philip didn't invite us in. His tent's not too
spacious. It's his bedroom, kitchen, and bathroom (simple water bottles).
There are only eight public restrooms in their area and 4,000 hobos living
in tents.
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