Residents in the Sylmar neighborhood of Los Angeles are raising concerns about an illegal, makeshift RV park due to unsanitary conditions which includes human waste flowing between RVs and into nearby homeowners’ yards. The “park” is squeezed into the small backyard of homeowner Cruz Florian Godoy, who claims the property is hers and she can do whatever she wants with it. So far she has been cited with two misdemeanors. She charges occupants of the RVs about $500 a month in rent.
According to KTLA-TV, neighbors gathered Monday to discuss their expectations regarding 20 RVs located at 14,000 Hubbard Street. Residents are calling for the RVs to be cleaned up and for the residents living in them to be rehoused.
One homeowner said the situation has been going on for two years.
“I don’t have peace in my own house. I have to live with doors and windows closed,” explained Maria Macias, who lives directly behind the encampment. “We’ve been getting sick. The smell, every day, when my husband goes to work it is the smell,” said Maria Macias, a Sylmar homeowner at the meeting.
“Well, we’re losing money on that because all these guys are living by my household,” said neighborhood resident Frank Moreno. “So, if I want to sell, I can’t. Who’s going to want to buy my house, having to deal with the smell, the insects and the vermin and stuff like that now.”
Neighbors showed video to TV reporters of what they say is human waste pouring into the streets and into their yards.
Local Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez was not at Monday’s meeting. However, she previously said that her office has done inspections of the property which resulted in violations and notices for compliance. She says the case is still pending with the court for those sanctions.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said a task force is being launched to study the issue. She said the city is working to identify a location for safe parking where the RVs can go so they’re not in a neighborhood.
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Would disagree that this RV homeless encampment, can in any way be called a commercial permitted RV Park.
Hey it’s la la land anything goes. All you have to do is look who the residents elect to represent them, ‘nuff said.
Stop it!
Why? Because you’re not in agreement? How “tolerant”.
Ah yes, the tolerant left.
The ones that think that “WOKE” is enlightened tolerance when in fact it is a movement of coercion and intimidation.
Ah yes, acknowledging the struggles of oppression is definitely a “movement of coercion and intimidation”. 🙄 Projection is a helluva drug.
Yikes your in deep.
You should come to Portland sometime… that slum looks positively orderly by comparison.
Who’s playing the fiddle, while California burns? Asking for a friend.
WOW…raw sewage and rats…sounds like a perfect setup for cholera and typhoid.
This is a good video that explains a lot more to this problem (if allowed by the editors)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkWbZVvcnxU&ab_channel=CaliforniaInsider
A “task force”- boy that sure sounds helpful. Feel very sorry for the neighbors.
WooHoo. Way to go LA.
Almost as bad as Portland and Seattle but when you factor in LA’s summer heat it should make it about even so at least the people all three cities will have EQUITY.
Thanks for the excellent Video link MattD and thanks to staff for sharing it.
You are very welcome.
And like lemmings to the cliffs, the red hat brigade trips over themselves to post anti-California commentary. So predictable.
How unfair of those darn redhatters pointing out disinformation like a homeless dystopia exists or something silly like that. Next they will tell us that masks don’t work and men can get pregnant and ooooo it makes me mad when darn those conspiracy theorists in red hats tell me the moon landing was real.
Precisely on schedule. I came here specifically to roll my eyes at your exhaustingly predictable comment.
Typical response. Rather than propose a solution, let’s bash the other side! Keep up the great work! LOL
Well, when the “other side” is pretty much responsible for the dumpster fire that is America right now, I feel like it’s an appropriate response.
How can we help? Need a student Loan paid off?
The “other side” lit the fires in liberal cities. What? How? Please help me understand how the right torched cities that are solely controlled by left for the past 2 decades. OMGoodness. It’s the Rs that doomed San Fran, Seattle and Portland? Holy moly. Alternate reality.
Chill out and enjoy cool refreshing Bud Lite.
What a joke. The mayor is launching a task force to study the issue. That will take a few years and how many dollars. With unsanitary conditions they need to take care of the problem immediately. How is this fair to any of the neighbors?
The legal homeowner neighbors don’t count. Only the people there illegally.
Seems like a good time for a wild fire.
disgusting
Yikes! =:-O