LA is seizing tiny homes from the homeless

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Warm hearted politicians. :rolleyes


LOS ANGELES — Escalating their battle to stamp out an unprecedented spread of street encampments, city officials have begun seizing tiny houses from homeless people in South Los Angeles.
Elvis Summers, who built and donated the structures, removed seven of the gaily painted wooden houses — which come with solar-powered lights and American flags — on Wednesday and Thursday ahead of a scheduled city sweep.
Summers, an L.A. resident who says he was once homeless, had placed them within encampments on overpasses along the 110 Freeway, for homeless people to use instead of tents.

Whole article with pics:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/la-is-seizing-tiny-homes-from-the-homeless/ar-BBq1uW4?ocid=spartanntp

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NPR has a segment this week where some guy says for the bottom 10%, which is numerically the most populous, life has gotten worse, not better since the Banksters' Great Depression.

America The Beautiful, fuck or be fucked dog-eat-dog brutalism.

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Poorest Areas Have Missed Out on Boons of Recovery, Study Finds

From 2010 to 2013, for example, employment in the most prosperous neighborhoods in the United States jumped by more than a fifth, according to the group’s analysis of Census Bureau data. But in bottom-ranked neighborhoods, the number of jobs fell sharply: One in 10 businesses closed down.

“It’s almost like you are looking at two different countries,”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/25/business/economy/poorest-areas-have-missed-out-on-boons-of-recovery-study-finds.html?_r=0

A Harvard Sociologist on Watching Families Lose Their Homes

“You see the mover reach past someone to turn on the lights without asking, then open the fridge, open the cupboards,” he recalled recently.

Touches of home are “obliterated instantly” and often just piled up on the curb.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/20/books/a-harvard-sociologist-on-watching-families-lose-their-homes.html?action=click&contentCollection=Economy&module=RelatedCoverage&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article