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Landless in Los Angeles

Survival, justice and belonging for The Unhoused, 100% made in public By Ruth @roofless, host of weekly X Displacement Spaces (Sundays 7pm PST), an ongoing discussion for and about global displacement and local housing and homelessness roofless.substack.com

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12:32

🆕 Inside Safe AUDIT by independent indigent investigator

Landless in Los Angeles ·

2025/06/18

I’m Ruth and I live outside in Los Angeles.This article follows-up on one I wrote in October 2023:🔗 All data is linked at the end of the article, so you can check it out and draw your own conclusions! Please let me know what you think in a comment.66% of people who enrolled in Inside Safe are indoors.4,994 Participant Statuses:* 3,305 indoors* 1,606 outside* 83 deceasedNearly 5,000 people enrolled in Inside Safe by New Years’ Eve and an additional 346 people enrolled in January. As of January 31,

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15:56

“The HACKLA” 2

Landless in Los Angeles ·

2025/05/27

70-year-old Benito Flores uses a square frame in his tidy, green front yard as a mini-billboard to oppose state violence:“KEEP FAMILIES TOGETHER.”—Reclaimer Benito Flores’ signPRESS RELEASEMr. Flores has no rent debt.Thanks for reading roofless! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.He has no behavioral issues.He has a codified right to purchase the home he’s occupied for over five years, which he would like to rightfully own.With all of these factors in his favor, as far as

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24:47

The HACKLA

Landless in Los Angeles ·

2025/04/28

I’m Ruth roofless. I’ve been unsheltered in the City of Los Angeles continuously since 2017. I write about corruption and housing policy from the streets and host live Displacement X Spaces discussions on Sundays at 7pm PST on Twitter, where I’m @rooflesser.Federal Housing Choice Vouchers “HCVs”, also called “Section 8” are our country’s #1 “safety net” against mass homelessness. In the City of Los Angeles, a planned opening of the decade-long waitlist for housing subsidies turned into a trap

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10:51

#UnitedtoHouseLA SPEECHLESS after Ava’s public comment

Landless in Los Angeles ·

2025/03/15

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit roofless.substack.com

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3:33

A tale of two Venice parking lots

Landless in Los Angeles ·

2025/03/06

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit roofless.substack.com

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5:12

Venice “A Bridge Home”

Landless in Los Angeles ·

2025/03/02

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12:50

Advocating for Ava

Landless in Los Angeles ·

2025/02/17

I’m Ruth and I’ve been living in public in the City of Los Angeles for around eight years. I’m one of Ava’s many advocates (including Ava herself!) trying to facilitate her transition into sustainable, dignified housing.For those who participate in the 2025 Greater Los Angeles Count, which has been delayed for one month because of the #LAfires, Ava V. may be a mark on a tally sheet or a tap in an app. But to others in Venice Beach, she’s a longtime neighbor, friend and empowered tenant.Ava has

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22:32

“Just for the record…”

Landless in Los Angeles ·

2025/01/04

The passage of County Measure A in the November elections committed an estimated $1 billion in additional sales tax revenue for homelessness services and affordable housing initiatives. Two bodies now exist to administer these funds, which will be available for collection on April 1, 2025 (no joke!) with the first tranche of funding entering government accounts sometime in June 2025. In approving a permanent source of revenue, voters chose the new Measure A and repealed Measure H, making permanent

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18:10

“Vertical Integration” for the Unhoused

Landless in Los Angeles ·

2024/12/13

Los Angeles City council member Nithya Raman sat resolutely and declared in City Administrative Officer “CAO” Matt Szabo’s Homeless Strategy Committee meeting on December 9th to staffers from the Housing Department (LAHD), Housing Authority “The HACLA,” and Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) that she wanted:“a map of encampments” with an overlay of outreach teams.Moments before, Chief City Legislative Analyst John Wickham had questioned the arrangement in terms of “vertical integration,” a

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13:38

“Somehow at some point” Part 2

Landless in Los Angeles ·

2024/12/11

“Somehow at some point” parts 1 and 2 were originally published together by CityWatchLA in their newsletter on December 5th, 2024.I’m Ruth @roofless and I write about homelessness and housing in the City of Los Angeles. I’ve lived on the streets here continuously for seven years and first experienced displacement in 2003. I write a Substack series with USC whistleblower Zachary Ellison about the legal landscape of landlessness in LA. Zach has made himself a fixture in the courtroom of U.S. Judge

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12:17

“Somehow at some point” Part 1

Landless in Los Angeles ·

2024/12/08

“Somehow at some point” parts 1 and 2 were originally published together by CityWatchLA in their newsletter on December 5th, 2024.“There's one [unhoused veteran] across the street, one tent across the street from this courthouse today.”Attorneys for a plaintiff class of unhoused veterans in Powers v McDonough pointed to the American flag-draped tent outside the new federal courthouse on First Street during a hearing on Wednesday, November 13th, two days after Veteran’s Day, objecting to the U.S

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17:58

“The Rocky Horror Picture Show"

Landless in Los Angeles ·

2024/12/02

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved by a vote of 4-0-1 a motion to study the feasibility of creating a new homelessness response agency on November 26, right before the Thanksgiving holiday. As noted by Los Angeles Times journalist Doug Smith writing on the notable approval, the County Chief Executive Office under Fesia Davenport will need to produce:“a feasibility report in 60 days, an analysis of which County and LAHSA programs would be absorbed by the new department in 90 days,

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17:22

“Looking for Unicorns”🦄

Landless in Los Angeles ·

2024/11/26

Finding housing in Los Angeles isn’t easy, much less finding the perfect units for potential tenants within a building.At the City Administrative Officer’s (CAO) pivotal Homeless Strategy Committee meeting on Thursday, November 7, Assistant City Administrative Officer Edwin Gipson remarked that he felt like he was“looking for unicorns”in making placements.Thanks for reading roofless! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.The real unicorn might be Los Angeles County Affordable

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20:45

I don’t want to live in a world without Palestinians.

Landless in Los Angeles ·

2024/10/31

“keep talking about me”19-year old Mohammad “Moe” (he/him) has enchanted the cat-loving Internet with a gut-wrenching rollercoaster ride involving his aloof ragdoll cat, Leo, as they dodge quadcopters and IDF tanks in Gaza.In September, Moe’s cat, Leo (to whom Moe refers using both he/him and she/her pronouns, sometimes within the same tweet) was injured in his eye and leg while outside on the street during an explosion. Mohammad dutifully found a veterinarian to inspect and treat Leo’s injuries.

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23:21

“This Didn’t Happen Overnight”

Landless in Los Angeles ·

2024/10/30

The City of Los Angeles is in deep trouble, and all the finger-pointing in the world won’t solve it, much less presentations and proclamations. Los Angeles City Hall is a world away from Agoura Hills where developer Izek Shomof was recently cited on October 21, for violating Los Angeles County building codes in converting outbuildings for residential occupancy. According to electronic records provided by Shomof’s brother-in-law whistleblower Patrick Wizmann, this wasn’t even the first time that one

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17:28

“A Big, Fat Grenade”

Landless in Los Angeles ·

2024/10/22

“Leadership in L.A., someone is going to have to fall on a big, fat grenade to really change the way housing is produced,”read the quote from “economist and co-director of the RAND Center on Housing and Homelessness,”Jason Ward, in the Los Angeles Times story by journalists Doug Smith and Liam Dillon.Thanks for reading roofless! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.Repeating the quote outside the courtroom of Judge David O. Carter, himself known for colorful language from his

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26:56

“A Failure of Moral Judgment” – Judge Carter & the...

Landless in Los Angeles ·

2024/10/12

“The City of Los Angeles is undoubtedly going broke,”warned Controller Kenneth Mejia on September 26 in social media posts on Instagram and X, formerly known as Twitter:“In the last year, the City has spent HALF its RESERVES,”he wrote, noting that:Thanks for reading roofless! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.“Just ONE year ago, the Reserve Fund was historically strong, at $648 million.”Controller Mejia cited three reasons for the impending financial crisis:“1. Lower

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17:04

EXPOSED LAPD slush fund for “Interim housing-Homeless...

Landless in Los Angeles ·

2024/10/09

$100/hour for 10 continuous yearsOne of the Los Angeles Police Department’s many overtime sources amounts to 88,353 hours, or 10 continuous years of 24/7 overtime at $8.36M. The account, earmarked for housing and services for homeless people, seems to keep replenishing, only to get diverted away from the intended unhoused recipients again.At a generous rate of $94.62 per hour, LAPD siphons OT from an account conspicuously called:“Other Homeless Services-Interim Homeless Housing ‘IHHS’”.Thanks for

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23:54

How are Pacoima’s Paxton Pilot Programs performing?

Landless in Los Angeles ·

2024/09/22

Newsom on the News, MRod: “a noose”At the beginning of August, Governor Gavin Newsom materialized under I-5 to help Caltrans abate an unremarkable pile of litter. Taking the “sweep” assignment literally, he was filmed flourishing an actual broom before tossing it atop a modest trash heap, where it landed next to a sun-faded American flag throw pillow. Later, he’d grandstand to a FOX News reporter and espouse:“I’m not the Mayor of California.”—CA Governor Gavin NewsomNotably, there were no unhoused

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18:07

Housing is Healing is a Battle

Landless in Los Angeles ·

2024/09/11

“The VA is doing everything possible to help veterans and their families remain in their homes…”—Veteran Sarah Kallassy in a video that appeared on the US Department of Veterans Affairs’ official YouTube channel three weeks ago.On Friday, September 6, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter’s decisive opinion in Powers v. McDonough firmly reiterated the legal foundations that grant disabled veterans the right to housing on Veterans Affairs property and the right to not have their benefits counted as

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