Heather K of Thatcher …
Ref: Homeless
I’d REALLY like to know what the “few words” we’re that Bonin said at Homelessapaluza. Genuinely curious. Is there an article or quotes from.
Many homeless are veterans or have true medical issues regarding their mental state, others really are down on their luck and really wanting and trying to find a way back into homes/productive lives.
What I have come to notice over the last ten years in particular is that a very large, if not dominant part of the homeless population in Venice, are there by “choice.” There are those who would rather live on the streets and do as they please, take as they please, sleep as they please, pee where they please, loiter where they please for the sake of shirking all responsibility and be ” free” to do all the above, not pay taxes, use drugs, beg for money, drink, and all while becoming increasingly bold and intimidating and self-righteous.
They approach me with my children when we walk to the corner store, or donut shop, surrounding us, saying obnoxious things like “your mom is gorgeous, bet you’ll be hot when you grow up” to my ten-year-old daughter. We park in Walgreens’ parking lot and next to the planters the smell of urine is overwhelming. They approach people as they go to their cars, women going to their cars, at night, asking them to give money. New faces every day appear.
No one in his city is bold enough to do anything productive about it or take any action. Now these types (not the first three types mentioned but the last) are getting high and driving over people (ref: death on OFW.) It should be an embarrassment to our city leaders, but they just go home to their hater communities and close their eyes and minds to it. Meanwhile, the rest of us have to work our asses off all day every day, pay taxes, put productivity in the world, pay property taxes. For that we come home from a grueling day to no parking, homeless addicts plaguing us at Walgreens as we go to grab milk or a prescription for our sick kids, get besieged on a walk to grab donuts when we finally have a day off, with drunks at 8am circling us jeering within inches of us.
THEN to try to take out tired, exhausted selves for a bit of peace at the beach only to get run over by another homeless methhead driving a car (ref: death on OFW.)
Guess what? Family has been in his area since 1942. With every year that passes, this is my home, and always will be. BUT it is the home of many others too. I would throw in the towel and move to some city off the grid. It doesn’t change the fact that this city in MDR/VENICE is being taken over by those who have money to build and do as they please commercially, handicapping our city with gridlock and parking problems and all the aggravated souls trying to come and go.
Those without earned money (exception of monies stolen or begged off of people) continue desecrating the quality of life here with their anarchy and drug use and all that goes with it and their camp sites.
So I ask lawmakers and leaders to show their value in their jobs and decision making to the TRUE stakeholders in Venice. NOT the people from TexS or overseas who build property, business, condos, then leave us with the ramifications while they go back to where they came from, or the business owners who build a business in the area with “O” parking. They take their profits back to Manhattan Beach or Beverly Hills where their businesses are and have NO affect on them. And not the freeloading drug using anarchists who make up most of our homeless population (again those who are veterans, trying, or medically mentally, excepted). These are NOT stakeholders. We are. And we get considered, always last. Despite our taxes and votes we place lowest on the totem pole.
Heather K of Thatcher …
Ref: Firestone Walker
Walking distance for us on the microbrewery, yes, for everyone else who comes into our neighborhood to park who ISN’T walking distance, not so much. Big picture people. Yours is not a micro world. What happens in our neighborhood regarding new businesses affects far more. I love a good brew like everyone else and I am sure we will go there, but unfortunately so do a lot of other people who will go there too, park is, get drunk in, drive through, and get lost in our neighborhood. Let’s pray their parking is FREE so people (fewer at best) will park THERE instead of in front of resident houses along with everyone else.
As for that parking six houses away in the dark wearing heels? Totally agree. Add to that for most women a car load full of groceries and small children. The original houses in this neighborhood often have no garages or single car ones. Therefore parking on the street is often necessary. Nice to know safety and the needs of those who pay property taxes in the neighborhood don’t matter, well their money does, but not their quality of life.
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Comments–5 September 2013
Heather K of Thatcher …
Ref: Homeless
I’d REALLY like to know what the “few words” we’re that Bonin said at Homelessapaluza. Genuinely curious. Is there an article or quotes from.
Many homeless are veterans or have true medical issues regarding their mental state, others really are down on their luck and really wanting and trying to find a way back into homes/productive lives.
What I have come to notice over the last ten years in particular is that a very large, if not dominant part of the homeless population in Venice, are there by “choice.” There are those who would rather live on the streets and do as they please, take as they please, sleep as they please, pee where they please, loiter where they please for the sake of shirking all responsibility and be ” free” to do all the above, not pay taxes, use drugs, beg for money, drink, and all while becoming increasingly bold and intimidating and self-righteous.
They approach me with my children when we walk to the corner store, or donut shop, surrounding us, saying obnoxious things like “your mom is gorgeous, bet you’ll be hot when you grow up” to my ten-year-old daughter. We park in Walgreens’ parking lot and next to the planters the smell of urine is overwhelming. They approach people as they go to their cars, women going to their cars, at night, asking them to give money. New faces every day appear.
No one in his city is bold enough to do anything productive about it or take any action. Now these types (not the first three types mentioned but the last) are getting high and driving over people (ref: death on OFW.) It should be an embarrassment to our city leaders, but they just go home to their hater communities and close their eyes and minds to it. Meanwhile, the rest of us have to work our asses off all day every day, pay taxes, put productivity in the world, pay property taxes. For that we come home from a grueling day to no parking, homeless addicts plaguing us at Walgreens as we go to grab milk or a prescription for our sick kids, get besieged on a walk to grab donuts when we finally have a day off, with drunks at 8am circling us jeering within inches of us.
THEN to try to take out tired, exhausted selves for a bit of peace at the beach only to get run over by another homeless methhead driving a car (ref: death on OFW.)
Guess what? Family has been in his area since 1942. With every year that passes, this is my home, and always will be. BUT it is the home of many others too. I would throw in the towel and move to some city off the grid. It doesn’t change the fact that this city in MDR/VENICE is being taken over by those who have money to build and do as they please commercially, handicapping our city with gridlock and parking problems and all the aggravated souls trying to come and go.
Those without earned money (exception of monies stolen or begged off of people) continue desecrating the quality of life here with their anarchy and drug use and all that goes with it and their camp sites.
So I ask lawmakers and leaders to show their value in their jobs and decision making to the TRUE stakeholders in Venice. NOT the people from TexS or overseas who build property, business, condos, then leave us with the ramifications while they go back to where they came from, or the business owners who build a business in the area with “O” parking. They take their profits back to Manhattan Beach or Beverly Hills where their businesses are and have NO affect on them. And not the freeloading drug using anarchists who make up most of our homeless population (again those who are veterans, trying, or medically mentally, excepted). These are NOT stakeholders. We are. And we get considered, always last. Despite our taxes and votes we place lowest on the totem pole.
Heather K of Thatcher …
Ref: Firestone Walker
Walking distance for us on the microbrewery, yes, for everyone else who comes into our neighborhood to park who ISN’T walking distance, not so much. Big picture people. Yours is not a micro world. What happens in our neighborhood regarding new businesses affects far more. I love a good brew like everyone else and I am sure we will go there, but unfortunately so do a lot of other people who will go there too, park is, get drunk in, drive through, and get lost in our neighborhood. Let’s pray their parking is FREE so people (fewer at best) will park THERE instead of in front of resident houses along with everyone else.
As for that parking six houses away in the dark wearing heels? Totally agree. Add to that for most women a car load full of groceries and small children. The original houses in this neighborhood often have no garages or single car ones. Therefore parking on the street is often necessary. Nice to know safety and the needs of those who pay property taxes in the neighborhood don’t matter, well their money does, but not their quality of life.
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