An ordinary commercial building in the corner of the 11th and main streets in the center of Los Angeles recently caught the attention of Los Angeles officials to exploit “Baby Shark” to dissuade homeless people.
Shalom Styles, owner of Styles Barber Lounge and one of the tenants of the building, said the owner began playing the song on Thursday on a speaker in Main Street a few meters from a homeless camp that is in its place on the sidewalk a year. The situation marks the last attempt of the owners to prevent homeless people from or sleep in commercial areas, a problem that they say threatens business.
“These are prosperous businesses, we don’t need to have those things here,” he said about the homeless camp.
But for Monday, the children’s song, a frequent ear worm, there was no more. Styles said the owner told him that the police had received complaints about music and ran the risk of being summoned by disturbing peace. He said the owner wanted to meet with city officials before accepting the music.
The owner could not be contacted immediately to comment. The Los Angeles Police Department did not promote a request for comments.
A spokeswoman for the councilor Ysabel Jurado, whose district includes the area in question, said that a meeting with the owner and the LAPD had tasks, but did not provide more details.
“Our housing and homeless people affect everyone in this city, while navigating this, I imply all to care and compassion,” jury said in a written statement. “My team and I are focused on looking to address these theses in an integral way and plan to create lasting solutions to support our non -vicidal population, but it is important that as we advance through this we do not lose sight of the humanity of each Eather.”
Daniel Cruz, a barber in Styles Barber Lounge, is outside the door of a break. The barbers are associated with the mission to provide hair cuts for people did not have.
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It was a feeling created by Dennis Olesky, executive director of the Los Angeles mission, who on Monday announced that he planned to join with styles to organize an event that provides free haircuts and free preparation services to people not abused in the center.
“We know that the homeless people crisis has created tension on all sides, for people living in the street and for business owners trying to operate in challenging conditions,” said Olesky. “We praise Shalom for converting a moment of frustration into an opportunity to serve.”
Olesky said that dissemination workers will be in the event to help people who want to leave the street.
“We all see what is happening in the center and sometimes you feel an envelope,” Styles said. “This is our way of helping, not just talking.”
Tensions between business owners and the homeless population have grown in recent years. In 2019, 7-Eleven was news when he started playing strong classical music for Pursues the homeless people of their stores. Other companies have implemented Planters and fences.
Althegh, the unprotected population in the city of Los Angeles, decreased last year from 32,680 to 29,275, and is and is and is Projected to reject again This year, residents and business owners continue to express frustration with the management of the city of the crisis of homeless.
Those frustrations reached new levels with the findings of a Audit of the Court of Services for Homeless of Los Angeles That founded the city and the SERVICE AUTHORITY FOR HOMEBRESAS DE LOS Ángeles lacked appropriate financial data systems and controls to monitor compliance and performance contracts.
Then are the recent investigations of the times in Skid Row Housing Trust and AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which the properties administered by the two non -profit organizations were plagued by heating failures, elevators and electricity, as well as infestations of a vermin.
More than a week ago, the tenants of a building that provides permanent support housing in Westlake filed a lawsuit against the owners and administrators of current and previous properties for creating what they described as “Abysmal living conditions. “
Even so, city officials maintain progress.
The owner Shalom Styles said that he and others in his barbershop began to have problems with people did not have in the area in 2022.
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When the styles arrived in Los Angeles to open their barbershop in 2020, the pandemic hindered its plans. A year later, he said he could start cutting his hair, but by 2022 he and other barbers in his store were the way of having problems homeless in the area.
He said that the children’s song that the owner had playing on his legs was an attempt to attract the city’s attention to the problem of the lack of housing in the area.
Near, he ate Anger landWhere people pay to vent their anger breaking dishes and breaking cars, at least a homeless man has discouraged and urinated out of business.
Employee Karla Maldonado, 25, said that the man also tried to start fires with the duration of garbage, Palisades and Eaton Fires.
“We tried to call 911, but they simply hung us,” he said.
Maldonado said he used water cubes to turn off the flames. She said that other homeless people in the alley along the warehouse have stolen brooms and covers that, according to her, cost up to $ 100 each. She estimates that at least 20 have been stolen.
On the back of the corner of Styles’s barbershop there was a small camp where approximately half of the people’s boxes have the lives of their legs. The bicycle pieces lay in a stack on the sidewalk.
“If it’s the robberies, it’s not us,” said Kenneth Moore, on the left, sitting with Chy and B Daniels in his camp just around the corner of Styles Barber Lounge.
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Kenneth Moore, 68, expressed anger and frustration that the business was blaming him and others in the Probles camp that says he has nothing to do with the group.
“If it’s the robberies, it’s not us,” said Kenneth Moore, 68. “We don’t tolerate that here, we fix bicycles to survive.”
Going through the area with his dog, Billy Copeland, 55, was interested in the group’s conversation about homeless people.
Copeland said a few months ago that he was sleeping in a street between Pico Boulevard and 15th Street when the cleaning teams arrived in his block. Fed, he refused to move.
“All they do is come and clean and document where people are,” he said.
Copeland said he did not move until the workers could help him access a shelter. He said he is now in a small house in Eagle Rock, waiting for permanent homes.
“That was the only way I could get help,” Copeland said. “I was here forever, giving my information and all that happened was that they went out to take my things.”
Moore and others say they have a leg waiting to be placed in permanent homes in some cases for more than two years.
A Lahsa spokesman said a dissemination team was in the camp a few months ago. He said some people were placed in intermediate homes, but left. It wasn’t clear where they had gone. Lahsa is expected to return to the camp on Tuesday.
Moore has tired of sitting on a waiting list and being dragged by the city.
“Do you think we like to live like this?” Moore said. “We don’t.”
A man known for carrying a strong box of trees in the neighborhood is located on Styles Barber Lounge street.
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