Really good thread on #homelessness in #vannuys over on #nextdoor: nextdoor.com/post/107369312… Mainly focuses on the Kittridge area, but all of the #sfv is being affected! cd6nury Mayor Karen Bass LAPD Van Nuys Div. @LAPDVanNuysCPAB

Good morning LAPD Van Nuys Div. (pretty sure that’s Lead Officer Kirk) - appreciate your help in the cleanup! #VanNuys #Kittridge #homelessness cd6nury

Homelessness is the most pressing issue facing our City. With #ABridgeHome, we will soon have more permanent resources to address the homeless emergency in the West Valley. Thanks to Sheila Kuehl for your continued partnership and leadership. #EveryoneIn

The #HOPE team doing the real work! nextdoor.com/post/109884486… #VanNuys cd6nury Mayor Karen Bass @LAPDVanNuysCPAB LAPD Van Nuys Div. Los Angeles Neighborhood Councils

Van Nuys 311 LAPD Van Nuys Div. cd6nury A short-lived victory. They came back the very next day and it's now worse than ever. This has been resubmitted to 311, but we HAVE to do better in #vannuys and do something to keep these people from coming back, making our neighborhoods unsafe and filthy.

Surefire way to kill ridership... Drugs and dereliction. Why aren’t we treating this like the health problem it is? #vannuys cd6nury

A truly compelling narrative around a set of possible solutions for the ongoing 'homelessness' issue: youtube.com/watch?v=bpAi70… . We're conflating the downstream effect of homelessness with the root causes of addiction and dereliction. #vannuys cd6nury Mayor Karen Bass

We need to get away from 'build more housing' as a solution to THIS problem. 1. Enforcement of existing laws 2. Incarceration (criminals) OR treatment (for addiction/mental illness) 3. Rehabilitation #libertariandystopia #vannuys cd6nury Mayor Karen Bass

Although a well written article, ⁦Steve Lopez LA Times⁩ misses the point on a root cause of homelessness - There IS hope for local solutions - but there needs to be a PLAN, and for that we need LEADERSHIP! ⁦Mayor Karen Bass⁩ ⁦cd6nury⁩ #vannuys latimes.com/local/californ…

3 days of arena-rock-level zealotry for what is apparently only a small group in relatively close quarters. #whoauthorizedthis? #vannuys @LAPDVanNuysCPAB NohoScanner Commander K. Pitcher LAPD Van Nuys Div. LAPD Operations-Valley Bureau @HIVN219 cd6nury

Don't forget the #Fireworks... Remember the scenes in the original #Robocop where the movie was "Set in a crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan, in the near future"? #justsayin #vannuys

SW Corner of Kittridge and Van Nuys blvd - behind the old shoe place next to the bank

Now THIS is a future worth hoping for!

Whoa - rockin’ and rollin’ #earthquake 🇺🇸 #HappyIndependenceDay

Must be nice to have that kind of access... Too bad it takes a media outlet to get traction- meanwhile, the rest of us plebeians make due with growing slums. #breadandcircuses cd6nury Mayor Karen Bass

Live protest in #vannuys youtube.com/watch?v=vcUdL_…

What “Defunding the police” looks like on a small(we) scale: apple.news/A1LZL_7DhSf2In… Frankly, this is the kind of iterative, ‘progressive’ thinking we need in LA - we’re simply asking too much of law enforcement (we also need a better name for it)

Interesting article on the psychology behind wearing vs non-wearing mask decisions (well written too, almost forgot I was reading a HuffPost article!) apple.news/AEl2nfw3ATym9P…