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@roof.bsky.social
Living in public in L.A.
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@roof.bsky.social
· Feb 25
The latest from Ruth Roofless on how one woman in Venice is losing her housing is a heartbreaker. How are we this bad at keeping people housed in LA?
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Advocating for Ava
Aging tenants like Ava are getting evicted in LA with nowhere to go. On the Westside, many accommodations are supposed to be available for people like her, but they are not actually available at all.
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Thanks @zacharyellison.bsky.social for sharing my latest piece, “Advocating for Ava”, about my friend who was evicted in Venice, and all the housing which is supposed to be available to her…but is not available for anyone!
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Now is a great time to support @roof.bsky.social who is again facing a sweep as an unhoused person in Los Angeles. Please support my colleague in her attempt to stay in her shelter.
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roofless | Ruth | Substack
Survival, Belonging & Justice for The Unhoused in LA • Liberation for landless + oppressed people globally. Click to read roofless, by Ruth, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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August 26, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Now is a great time to support @roof.bsky.social who is again facing a sweep as an unhoused person in Los Angeles. Please support my colleague in her attempt to stay in her shelter.
roofless.substack.com
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The latest with @roof.bsky.social on the pressing questions on housing and homelessness in Los Angeles. In a surprise decision there will be no receivership even as more money than before comes from taxpayers.
zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-178-a...
zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-178-a...
Part 178: A Homelessness Impasse in Los Angeles? Judicial Nothingburger and Policy Indecision
Published July 2, 2025.
zacharyellison.substack.com
July 3, 2025 at 5:36 AM
The latest with @roof.bsky.social on the pressing questions on housing and homelessness in Los Angeles. In a surprise decision there will be no receivership even as more money than before comes from taxpayers.
zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-178-a...
zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-178-a...
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July 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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The latest Inside Safe data deep dive from @roof.bsky.social is worth every point. Do the numbers support the narrative of Mayor Karen Bass on the crisis of the unhoused?
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🆕 Inside Safe AUDIT by independent indigent investigator
Nearly 5,000 people enrolled in Mayor Bass’s shelter program in its first two years, and two-thirds remain indoors.
roofless.substack.com
June 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
The latest Inside Safe data deep dive from @roof.bsky.social is worth every point. Do the numbers support the narrative of Mayor Karen Bass on the crisis of the unhoused?
roofless.substack.com/p/inside-saf...
roofless.substack.com/p/inside-saf...
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I was impressed at how closely this story by Doug Smith of the Los Angeles Times parallels the coverage by @roof.bsky.social and myself of the LA Alliance Hearings and more. Receivership soon?
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
A federal judge weighs turning L.A. city's homelessness programs over to a receiver
After hearing seven days of testimony, a federal judge is deliberating on a request from a group of business owners, property owners and residents to place the city of Los Angeles' billion-dollar home...
www.latimes.com
June 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I was impressed at how closely this story by Doug Smith of the Los Angeles Times parallels the coverage by @roof.bsky.social and myself of the LA Alliance Hearings and more. Receivership soon?
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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The latest with @roof.bsky.social on the failure to address homelessness in Los Angeles. Will an evidentiary hearing and a receivership change the dynamic? There are so many empty beds already in a system gone awry.
zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-172-l...
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Part 172: LA Alliance Evidentiary Hearing? A Homelessness Receivership is Coming to Los Angeles
Published May 21, 2025.
zacharyellison.substack.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:34 AM
The latest with @roof.bsky.social on the failure to address homelessness in Los Angeles. Will an evidentiary hearing and a receivership change the dynamic? There are so many empty beds already in a system gone awry.
zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-172-l...
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zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-172-l...
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Join me to chat about homelessness, landlessness and displacement at 7pm on twitter/X, Discord or call 8186001846 twitter.com/i/spaces/1dR...
Scheduled: Displacement X Spaces for landless people everywhere weekly discussion
🧯landless lady ❤️🔥’s Space · Where live audio conversations happen
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May 19, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Join me to chat about homelessness, landlessness and displacement at 7pm on twitter/X, Discord or call 8186001846 twitter.com/i/spaces/1dR...
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The latest with @roof.bsky.social on the decade plus long LADWP corruption scandal. Will former Chief Deputy City Attorney James Clark be disbarred after testimony from a former FBI confidential informant? Don’t miss!
zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-169-u...
zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-169-u...
Part 169: Unpacking “a litany of horribles” – The LADWP Scandal and Litigation Mysteries
Published April 30, 2025.
zacharyellison.substack.com
May 1, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The latest with @roof.bsky.social on the decade plus long LADWP corruption scandal. Will former Chief Deputy City Attorney James Clark be disbarred after testimony from a former FBI confidential informant? Don’t miss!
zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-169-u...
zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-169-u...
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“How many identities must be stolen until none of our personal information has any value? Would that be bad, or possibly a good thing?”
@roof.bsky.social
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@roof.bsky.social
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The HACKLA
“After applying for Section 8, our private data was in the hands of professional hackers demanding a ransom, making us virtual hostages.”
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May 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
“How many identities must be stolen until none of our personal information has any value? Would that be bad, or possibly a good thing?”
@roof.bsky.social
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@roof.bsky.social
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The saga in Los Angeles continues with homelessness bureaucracy, which today saw the LA County Board of Supervisors vote to create a new agency. Don’t miss the latest with @roof.bsky.social on the audit that shook LA mightily!
zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-163-y...
zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-163-y...
Part 163: “You’re dead politically” – Homelessness Bureaucracy and Human Consequences in Los Angeles
Published April 1, 2025.
zacharyellison.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 2:22 AM
The saga in Los Angeles continues with homelessness bureaucracy, which today saw the LA County Board of Supervisors vote to create a new agency. Don’t miss the latest with @roof.bsky.social on the audit that shook LA mightily!
zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-163-y...
zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-163-y...
Traci Park receives campaigns contributions from the contractor working to convert Ramada Homekey into housing
March 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Traci Park receives campaigns contributions from the contractor working to convert Ramada Homekey into housing
This Ramada Inn was purchased for $10M by the State thru Homekey & transferred to @pathpartners for $1M. It received an add’l $8.5M, incl $1.5M from HHH @ at the end of last year. Yet it has been VACANT since 2022! 7 people are dying on the streets of LA DAILY. Who is holding up this housing?
March 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This Ramada Inn was purchased for $10M by the State thru Homekey & transferred to @pathpartners for $1M. It received an add’l $8.5M, incl $1.5M from HHH @ at the end of last year. Yet it has been VACANT since 2022! 7 people are dying on the streets of LA DAILY. Who is holding up this housing?
The City pays every night for all 23 rooms at this Inside Safe motel, which has a contract through 9/30, but most of the rooms stay empty:
March 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The City pays every night for all 23 rooms at this Inside Safe motel, which has a contract through 9/30, but most of the rooms stay empty:
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Rick Caruso has named other board members to his nonprofit with close ties to the Trump administration, including Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale.
Lonsdale also started the Cicero Institute, a Texas think tank that develops anti-camping bills which have been passed by several states
Lonsdale also started the Cicero Institute, a Texas think tank that develops anti-camping bills which have been passed by several states
There were other red flags in Caruso's announcement. Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir and mentee of Peter Thiel, is on the Steadfast LA board. You may have seen Palantir and Peter Thiel in the news lately.
On Joe Rogan, Caruso name-checked Lonsdale as "one of the biggest thinkers around"
On Joe Rogan, Caruso name-checked Lonsdale as "one of the biggest thinkers around"
February 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Rick Caruso has named other board members to his nonprofit with close ties to the Trump administration, including Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale.
Lonsdale also started the Cicero Institute, a Texas think tank that develops anti-camping bills which have been passed by several states
Lonsdale also started the Cicero Institute, a Texas think tank that develops anti-camping bills which have been passed by several states
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The audit released last Thursday in federal court by the firm Alvarez & Marsal into response in Los Angeles to the crisis of the unhoused was some serious reading. Will it be enough to change anything? The latest with @roof.bsky.social on the LA powerbrokers coming under scrutiny.
Part 160: “Some Kind of Action” – A New Homelessness Audit Drops in Los Angeles
Published March 13, 2025.
zacharyellison.substack.com
March 14, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The audit released last Thursday in federal court by the firm Alvarez & Marsal into response in Los Angeles to the crisis of the unhoused was some serious reading. Will it be enough to change anything? The latest with @roof.bsky.social on the LA powerbrokers coming under scrutiny.
Listen to Ava in her own voice and words open.substack.com/pub/roofless...
#UnitedtoHouseLA SPEECHLESS after Ava’s public comment
Watch now | On December 12, 2024, Ava pleaded with ULA’s Citizen Oversight Committee for assistance after she had been evicted from her apartment in Venice.
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March 16, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Listen to Ava in her own voice and words open.substack.com/pub/roofless...
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#LosAngeles #homeless #spending
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Who got rich off #ABridgeHome in #VeniceBeach?
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#audit #lahsa #reciepts 🦛
#LosAngeles #homeless #spending
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Who got rich off #ABridgeHome in #VeniceBeach?
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#audit #lahsa #reciepts 🦛
March 2, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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#LosAngeles #homeless #spending
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Who got rich off #ABridgeHome in #VeniceBeach?
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#audit #lahsa #reciepts 🦛
#LosAngeles #homeless #spending
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Who got rich off #ABridgeHome in #VeniceBeach?
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#audit #lahsa #reciepts 🦛
@redcrossla.bsky.social is already shutting down the Duarte #LAFires shelter, making fire victims displaced and unsheltered…
February 28, 2025 at 5:16 AM
@redcrossla.bsky.social is already shutting down the Duarte #LAFires shelter, making fire victims displaced and unsheltered…
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U.S. Offers PlatinumPlus Preferred Citizenship
U.S. Offers PlatinumPlus Preferred Citizenship
WASHINGTON, DC—In an 86-14 vote, the Senate approved legislation Monday establishing PlatinumPlus Preferred citizenship, an exciting new program offering special benefits and discounts to select membe...
theonion.com
February 25, 2025 at 11:38 PM
U.S. Offers PlatinumPlus Preferred Citizenship
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The day an atmospheric river dumped almost three inches of rain on downtown Los Angeles earlier this month was also the day that the city of LA decided to uproot a longstanding encampment of unhoused neighbors in Echo Park.
Why did LA bulldoze an Echo Park encampment during a rain storm?
Mayor Karen Bass’s Inside Safe operations can leave unhoused residents even more vulnerable to the elements.
lapublicpress.org
February 25, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The day an atmospheric river dumped almost three inches of rain on downtown Los Angeles earlier this month was also the day that the city of LA decided to uproot a longstanding encampment of unhoused neighbors in Echo Park.
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Why did LA bulldoze an Echo Park encampment during a rain storm? w/ @phoenixtso.bsky.social
via @lapublicpress.bsky.social
lapublicpress.org/2025/02/la-r...
via @lapublicpress.bsky.social
lapublicpress.org/2025/02/la-r...
Why did LA bulldoze an Echo Park encampment during a rain storm?
Mayor Karen Bass’s Inside Safe operations can leave unhoused residents even more vulnerable to the elements.
lapublicpress.org
February 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Why did LA bulldoze an Echo Park encampment during a rain storm? w/ @phoenixtso.bsky.social
via @lapublicpress.bsky.social
lapublicpress.org/2025/02/la-r...
via @lapublicpress.bsky.social
lapublicpress.org/2025/02/la-r...
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AOC: The order has come down to this committee. Find $880 billion to pay for a tax cuts on yachts, jets, billionaires, and mega corporations while working class people pay higher tax rates than Facebook does. Undocumented immigrants pay more in taxes than many large corporations
February 26, 2025 at 12:02 AM
AOC: The order has come down to this committee. Find $880 billion to pay for a tax cuts on yachts, jets, billionaires, and mega corporations while working class people pay higher tax rates than Facebook does. Undocumented immigrants pay more in taxes than many large corporations
Please boost by sharing 100% independent, unbought investigative journalism created on the streets of Los Angeles, so more people can read unhoused experiences and learn which lies they have been sold by mainstream press about homelessness & re-housing!
The latest from Ruth Roofless on how one woman in Venice is losing her housing is a heartbreaker. How are we this bad at keeping people housed in LA?
open.substack.com/pub/roofless...
open.substack.com/pub/roofless...
Advocating for Ava
Aging tenants like Ava are getting evicted in LA with nowhere to go. On the Westside, many accommodations are supposed to be available for people like her, but they are not actually available at all.
open.substack.com
February 26, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Please boost by sharing 100% independent, unbought investigative journalism created on the streets of Los Angeles, so more people can read unhoused experiences and learn which lies they have been sold by mainstream press about homelessness & re-housing!
🧵 #UnitedtoHouseLA #MeasureULA #evictiondefense #programimplementation #StayHousedLA #homelessnessprevention #mansiontaxes #transferfees #redlining #reparations #segregation #displacement #renters #tenants #unions #rentstrike #right2counsel #tenantsrights #mutualaid #UBI #SSI #probono #legalaid
(1/2) I spoke to United to House LA’s Citizen Oversight Commission on 2/13 about my friend Ava’s eviction.
It was the first time ULACOC had met since the #LAFire:
It was the first time ULACOC had met since the #LAFire:
February 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM