A Los Angeles enterprise proprietor has discovered a novel method to maintain homeless folks from tenting close to his constructing: taking part in a kids’s tune on an annoying loop.
“They played ‘Baby Shark’ all night long,” Tracy, a girl who lives in an encampment subsequent door to the constructing on the nook of West eleventh and Major streets, informed NBC4 Los Angeles. “They’re doing everything they can to make us move or drive us crazy. But it’s doing the latter. It’s driving people crazy.”
The constructing house owners started taking part in the tune by way of a loudspeaker pointed immediately on the encampment, which Tracy informed the outlet had “kept her and others up all night.”
“This is ridiculous. We can’t get any sleep. We can’t get housing. We can’t eat,” she mentioned. “And now they’re trying to drive us crazy with children’s music.”
Shalom Kinds, who owns the barbershop Kinds Barber Lounge, across the nook from the enterprise taking part in “Baby Shark” informed the outlet that they aren’t attempting to be imply or insensitive to the homeless, however have companies to run and are “just trying to survive.”
“It’s not always about being kind, because when people are taking away from business, and all the stores are going out of business,” Kinds mentioned. “We’re still here surviving, trying to put up for our family.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom launched particulars final week about his multi-billion-dollar plan to sort out the homeless disaster within the Golden State and is pushing cities and counties to take “immediate action.”
On Monday, Newsom shared a mannequin ordinance for cities and counties to “immediately address dangerous and unhealthy encampments and connect people experiencing homelessness with shelter and services.”
“There’s nothing compassionate about letting people die on the streets,” Newsom mentioned in a information launch.
The ordinance is backed partly by $3.3 billion in new Prop 1 funding, Newsom’s workplace introduced, including that the governor is “calling on all local governments to act without delay.”
Newsom can be encouraging native leaders to make use of their authority, affirmed by the US Supreme Court docket, to handle homeless encampments.
“The Governor is calling on every local government to adopt and implement local policies without delay,” Newsom’s workplace mentioned.
Newsom’s workplace informed Fox Information Digital that the governor has “actively held communities accountable who do not follow state law to address homelessness”, sharing an instance of when the state sued the Metropolis of Norwalk in 2024 for “its unlawful ban on homeless shelters.”
The governor’s workplace added that, whereas nationwide homelessness went up by almost 7% final yr, California’s enhance was solely 0.45% and was decrease than these of 44 different states.
“Governor Newsom is the first governor to actively address this issue in our state, and he is reversing a crisis that was decades in the making,” Newsom’s workplace mentioned.
