- Los Angeles has lifted the ban on towing RVs.
And there's all kinds of people here,
with no place else to go.
So if their RV is towed, they're out on a street, homeless.
we're walking up right now where they're towing RVs.
- This is my home.
I don't have anything else.
You know
- If they tow your.
- If they tow my RV, I'm fucked.
- I lost a car, because I couldn't afford to get it out.
- Yeah.
- And what's the cost to get it out?
- Oh gosh.
Are you kidding me?
It's astronomical.
I believe it starts at $70.
No, I'm sorry.
It's $125 for the convenience of them
towing your car from you.
- Yeah.
- And then I believe it's $70 a day,
and it could depend on the size of the car.
So it can get up to a thousand dollars
within a couple of days, easily.
- And people don't have an income,
or they would have an apartment.
They wouldn't be living here.
- Exactly.
Even those who do have an income, I'm on SSI.
I can afford that.
I can't afford to do that,
because just groceries alone, and gas,
because to run anything, electricity,
we have to have gas for our generators.
Gas is insane.
Groceries are insane.
- People who live in their RV or their van, in their car,
are going to end up street homeless, living in a tent,
when their shelters that they live in,
their vehicle residence, is towed.
- They actually picked up my tent with the bulldozer,
and took it down the way here,
and dropped it on another person's tent,
that wasn't ready to go either.
So they don't have a tent now either.
The sanitation crew,
while they were destroying all of my stuff,
picked up like all the crap I had
that was laying out, and like held it up to the sun,
and was like looking through it.
It was really uncomfortable to see that,
and them laughing about it, and not even caring.
- How did that make you feel?
- Really like embarrassed, I guess.
And like, I don't know, just made me feel bad.
- I can't imagine how degrading that must feel,
to a woman who's already living outside.
This is so horrible.
And a moment ago,
house people were driving by in their cars,
yelling nasty things at the people here,
that just lost everything.
This is such a mess.
- This is where I live, my humble abode, just kidding.
The garden is my prized possession.
- People just assume
that all homeless people are nasty, dirty.
- Yeah, yeah.
- And here, you take care of your place,
This is your home.
- Yes, it is my home.
I'm from Venice.
And now I can't afford to live in Venice.
- Criminalization of homelessness
is growing across the country.
It's horrible.
It's violent.
It makes people that are vulnerable, even more vulnerable.
We have to speak up, scream at politicians,
all this money that is going to towing,
and criminalization, and sweeps,
could go to help these people,
instead of destroying their lives.
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