The solution to homelessness could be easy and inexpensive rather than a bureaucratic mess.
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Not all 'homeless' are alike on the streets of LA
What will become of the people in Los Angeles who are priced out of the housing market and oftentimes strung out on drugs? Even if they are detoxed and recover from addiction, what does the city and county plan to do with the billions devoted to solving the system problem? New stories like this only highlight what every Angeleno knows is going on under every freeway overpass and most sidewalks in plain sight.
Riverside properties along the 110 Freeway in Highland Park are a nuisance to nearly no one.
There may be tiny homes nearby, but they are run like a prison and people do not want that.
If only the inside were clean
Homeless families say they have "no choice" but to take up space next to dangerous freeways because they can't find housing or jobs.
Some of the unhoused have taken creative measures to bring creature comforts to their tiny shanty homes.
The freeway families say they "look out for one other" and have built their own tiny community.
Caesar Duarte didn't flinch as an Amazon truck barreled down the busy 110 Freeway in Los Angeles, missing his makeshift home by just a few feet.
I want to go off grid and live in peace
The only thing that stood between Duarte's outdoor kitchen and speeding vehicles was a three-foot retaining wall and metal fencing.
The 44-year-old mechanic and house painter said he has learned to deal with the danger and noise since he erected his homestead by the freeway about four years ago.
With all new materials, a home like this might only cost $40K to build and place on a foundation
Is there any hope for a future of modular homes with A/C and protection from rain and sun?
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Could there be a double wide mansion on wheels?
"It doesn't bother me, and also I have no choice," Duarte told DailyMail.com. "Everything is too expensive. Rent is too expensive, and right now it's hard to find jobs.
"We are struggling like everyone here. We don't have any problems with anyone, and we don't make problems with anyone. The neighbors, we take care of one another."
What's the tiniest "home" possible? LA's plan for "tiny tent" housing
With more than $100 million to spend, Mayor Karen Bass and LA County should be able to afford at least 800 "tiny tents," according to Fishbone and Crab in the Morning on 95.5 FM (j/k).
If they don't like their tiny tents, we have ways to convince or house them in our jails - LAPD
Daily Mail (mailonline.co.uk) via MSN, 4/25/24; Crystal Q., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly LIVE from Highland Park, along the Arroyo Mojado (LA River tributary)
Buddhism after Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism (Rita M. Gross, SUNY Press, 1993, 368 pages)
WHAT? This book draws upon two major bodies of knowledge -- feminism as academic method and social vision and Buddhism.
The author's stated task is a feminist "revalorization." This involves working with the categories and concepts of a traditional religion in light of feminist values.
Doing so reveals massive undercurrents of sexism and prejudice, especially in practice, and contains an implicit judgment. To revalorize is to have determined that, however sexist, it is not irreparably so. Revalorizing is the work of repairing a tradition, often bringing it much more into line with its own fundamental values and vision than was its patriarchal form.
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