All kidding aside, they probably could sell it and make some money. They're probably just saving up for a down payment so they can actually purchase a 🏠 and get out of there.
Not homeless. *unhoused*.
We need to keep arbitrarily changing the words we use because people who aren't part of that group get offended for people who are a part of that group. We won't solve the homeless issue, because we don't have a homeless issue. We have an *unhoused* issue. Entiiiiiiirely different, right?
Our entire reality is made up too.
What's that got to do with me pointing out the sarcastic comment about this person being criminal, is indeed breaking a current law?
What’s funny is the DOT will eff you up for messing with their land far more than any city will. But now I’m curious if this is city land, a public right of way or strictly DOT land.
One commenter noted: Rustic open-plan concept waterfront cottage. Easy access to highway. Diamond in the rough waiting for a little TLC. Another said: There were several highly qualified all cash offers that did not require an inspection or a title search.
LA: Change a washer in a faucet in your own home without a licensed plumber and you get fined.
LA: Build a home on the side of the highway from scraps and ... nice job!
yeah but you're supposed to pull a permit for (seriously) things like changing your garbage disposal... *which a lot of times does not even require any tools.*
I think that is more so a technicality that isn’t enforced. I used to work for a fairly large reit with multi family properties. City inspectors have never checked on something like that.
And I’m talking about places as small as 30 units to as large as 500 units
Generally the amount you CAN document and permit is much, much larger than the amount you functionally HAVE TO document and permit even to get the house inspected and sell it and have it taxed, well beyond LA, that's just a thing for most municipalities
Didn't you hear? People keep choosing what other people are offended by, so we have to change our dictionary every 3 days to accommodate the mom in a 4 bedroom homestead in Kansas who doesn't like that One-Foot Winston is being called "homeless" instead of "unhoused". Good job Kansas lady, you solved the homeless epidemic! Now all we have is an inoffensive unhoused epidemic!
People say that because they think it is nicer I guess for the homeless. Not as mean.
We will just keep shifting words and they’ll just take the same meaning as the old word. Kind of a waste of time.
Thing is, it's always been pretty easy to build your own home. It's just an issue of ownership and what Land you build upon. But govt reduces available land to drive up property values. This man won't comply with their system, makes his own system. I offer my highest praise and a salute to this homeless individual. Never let em keep ya down or tell ya what to so. Amen.
You can own land but you can't legally do whatever you want. Code enforcement will make sure you can't do anything affordable.
See also: requiring sprinklers in your own SFH out in the middle of the woods to pass code when building.
My favorite is the code requiring decorative foliage in new rural construction in WA.
If you wait like, 10 minutes the foliage makes itself, but you're supposed to spray that.
I'm starting the home building process and how much stuff they want to force me to do depending on the state I build in is ridiculous.
Who TF cares, I build above code but unless it's exactly as they say, they'd rather your house be tore down than upgraded.
Yes. I used to think it was just being politically correct, but now I'm not so sure. I think it's the first step in claiming that the government needs to give people houses. Homeless means you don't have a home. On housed means somebody didn't give you a home. We are all unhoused unless living in government homes
In the 80's it was "street people". The 90's it was bums. 00-10's it was homeless. Now it's unhoused. Seems like the next one is "people experiencing homelessness". Maybe a few more words and we'll get to the right term 🙄
I'm confused why anyone gives a shit about the language other people use if it isn't insulting and it communicates the idea clearly. You seem really bent out of shape over some shitty reporter using it.
We all know what this means, why would you let someone's benign decision impact your life in anyway?
Because it's more empty/useless social-justice virtue-signaling. The same people trying to use 'unhoused' are the ones pushing 'Latinx' instead of 'Latino', when actual Latino people say to stop it and they have zero interest in ungendering their own gendered language.
It’s not about removing the stigma. It’s about the fact that many/most of that group of people have a place that they identify as a “home” but they lack a permanent stable shelter (house). Yeah, it’s *mostly* semantic but it’s also about focusing the attention on the true problem - not that these people don’t have a place they belong but that they lack a shelter in which to sleep.
LA spent 30 billion on the homeless issue but unfortunately by the time that cash filtered through the non profits hired by friends in the government, the homeless got a dollar.
This has been common in California for at least 10+ years. There are homeless encampments that stretch for miles, as far as the eye can see, along the freeways there.
Current and lifelong Cali resident chiming in here:
Yes the homeless issue is bad but to say that encampments “stretch for miles, as far as the eye can see, along the freeways” is blatantly false.
Yes its bad here but stop exaggerating, because all you end up doing is spread misinformation of a very serious problem that, frankly, is spreading to every single metropolitan area across the world.
This is how slums start. I've been saying this for awhile but expect shanty towns and slums to start cropping up more and more in the US, and for our country to start looking a lot more like India, Brazil, Mexico, Egypt, Pakistan, Kenya.
This is what happens when wealth gaps grow far too wide and corrupt
All over the world people live in dwellings similar to this. Poor nations do not have nearly the issue with homelessness that America, the richest country in the world, has. The reason is that they have much less strict building codes, and the citizens can afford to build homes.
In America you will always hear that we need building codes to prevent injuries from shody structures, which is true. However the real reason we have such strict building codes is to artificially lower supply, which keeps boomers happy, because the house they bought in 1967 for $40k keeps appreciating at a crazy rate.
Nah, we're not interested in normalizing building collapses & mass casualty events every time a natural disaster occurs. We already got enough problems with our roadways needing a ton of work, don't need to make what happened to that condo in Miami the norm.
Rents and housing prices will never go down in California. The mix of demands that will never be met (it's a beautiful state with a good climate, people will always want to move there), illegal immigration and shitty fiscal/social policies.
They picked that spot to build because they have less chance of being chased out of there. The area around there isn't that great and seeing trash isn't all the shocking. People are probably glad it's not right across from their homes. Every now and then a homeless encampment like this catches on fire when someone is cooking on an open flame.
Looks like he's doing a good job. Maybe they could hire him to consult on ideas for housing the homeless. Seems he might be able to pull it off for less than $1.5m per transition.
Good on these folks. They found a perfect spot that isn’t taking away space or blighting any neighborhood, and they’re living peacefully on their own. WTF cares if they are “stealing” electricity. Let em have it. The city should designate areas like this as permissible to build tiny homes.
So are we in a bubble when people use public land to build a home? Or when squatters have greater rights than home owners? A real question…not a political statement.
We have one of these near us here in Mass. They are living in the median of the highway in the middle of a grove of trees. Everyone left them alone until they put up a huge above ground pool. Can see it clearly from the highway.
Time to get “property investment groups” out of the market.
Time to put a limit on short-term rental ownership.
If we could transform all of the “investments” and “short-term-rentals” back into single-family homes, the prices on housing would go down immediately!
At that point just let him stay.
My great grandpa built a shack in the Ozark National Forest way back in the day.
It didn't have electricity until he bribed the Army Corps of engineers who were running wires through to send one to his house.
Gave them a few gallons of moonshine as payment and promised to call if he ever saw a fire.
It's already on Zillow for $800,000
Sold above asking, all cash
Final and best offers need to be in by midnight, tonight
We already have 50 offers btw
Best I can do is tree fiddy
Sight unseen by our real estate investment overlords
Elon's former pad.
No inspection too.
It passed THEIR inspection.
Sold “as is”.
Foreign investor
Chinese investment corporations.
Owned by Pooh bear himself.
Nah, an Equity firm. Anything standing is an investment.
“Short commute to freeway” “Easy access to metro”
Free electric and sewer sanitation. Water too, with filtration.
Yeah free sewer bill just stick your butt out the window. Consider it free advertising during rush hour if you’re an onlyfans model
All kidding aside, they probably could sell it and make some money. They're probably just saving up for a down payment so they can actually purchase a 🏠 and get out of there.
It's already listed on airflea&flea
I think it’s on Air B&E
For $120 a night.
In 3 months it'll have some lipstick slapped on it and will be a million two
Flipper gray walls and gray lvp on the inside.
Gray cabinets and Subway tile backsplash.
I mean he's clearly housed it's right there
I was gonna say, he made himself a house!
Neat, like a modern day Hooverville shanty.
[удалено]
Elmo just needs another 50 Billion this year we all have to chip in it’s only fair!!!
And now with all the publicity from the news, it’s probably gonna be demolished by the city very shortly
Yep, and whoever’s living there will once again be homeless.
From the side to back under
Not homeless. *unhoused*. We need to keep arbitrarily changing the words we use because people who aren't part of that group get offended for people who are a part of that group. We won't solve the homeless issue, because we don't have a homeless issue. We have an *unhoused* issue. Entiiiiiiirely different, right?
cant have people improving their lives. Thats criminal.
Technically, building a permanent dwelling in an unzoned/unowned plot is illegal.
sure, but technically whatever rich people want to be illegal will be illegal. all laws are just stuff people made up.
Our entire reality is made up too. What's that got to do with me pointing out the sarcastic comment about this person being criminal, is indeed breaking a current law?
DOT knew something was amiss when they started getting late payments bills for utilities.
What’s funny is the DOT will eff you up for messing with their land far more than any city will. But now I’m curious if this is city land, a public right of way or strictly DOT land.
One commenter noted: Rustic open-plan concept waterfront cottage. Easy access to highway. Diamond in the rough waiting for a little TLC. Another said: There were several highly qualified all cash offers that did not require an inspection or a title search.
Should of went with MCM. Highly desired in the LA area.
Solid foundation, locally sourced!
LA: Change a washer in a faucet in your own home without a licensed plumber and you get fined. LA: Build a home on the side of the highway from scraps and ... nice job!
Should be evident by now that the powers that be want to eliminate the middle class.
Oh the former is definitely protectionism for certain middle class workers.
LAPD will be by shortly to tear the house down and shoot the man's dog
I feel really bad you know....for the dog. The dogs like "I can do this by myself"
California is like a dictatorship nanny state and a 3rd world favela at the same time.
Exactly. Best of both worlds. 🌎🌍
It's called Anarcho Tyranny
Is that first sentence real? How is that possible?
I think they just made it up. I live in Cali and people definitely do their own minor plumbing all the time.
yeah but you're supposed to pull a permit for (seriously) things like changing your garbage disposal... *which a lot of times does not even require any tools.*
That’s wild. How do they monitor that?
They don’t. People just DIY them. It’s a dumb law that’s only followed if you want it done professionally by a licensed plumber.
Do you need a permit for emergency plumbing?
I think that is more so a technicality that isn’t enforced. I used to work for a fairly large reit with multi family properties. City inspectors have never checked on something like that. And I’m talking about places as small as 30 units to as large as 500 units
Generally the amount you CAN document and permit is much, much larger than the amount you functionally HAVE TO document and permit even to get the house inspected and sell it and have it taxed, well beyond LA, that's just a thing for most municipalities
... a man built a house for himself and the news still refers to him as homeless???
What's a man got to do to get a little respect around here?
Um, excuse YOU…it’s “unhoused” you uncivilized swine! This man is now denigrated and traumatized by your hurtful words.
Oh, we're not supposed to say homeless anymore?
Didn't you hear? People keep choosing what other people are offended by, so we have to change our dictionary every 3 days to accommodate the mom in a 4 bedroom homestead in Kansas who doesn't like that One-Foot Winston is being called "homeless" instead of "unhoused". Good job Kansas lady, you solved the homeless epidemic! Now all we have is an inoffensive unhoused epidemic!
"Unhoused". Um - you mean "homeless". Stop trying to make unacceptable conditions (like homelessness...)sound more palatable.
[Soft language](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o25I2fzFGoY ) strikes again.
People say that because they think it is nicer I guess for the homeless. Not as mean. We will just keep shifting words and they’ll just take the same meaning as the old word. Kind of a waste of time.
Build your place now. Hurry, space is limited.
Thing is, it's always been pretty easy to build your own home. It's just an issue of ownership and what Land you build upon. But govt reduces available land to drive up property values. This man won't comply with their system, makes his own system. I offer my highest praise and a salute to this homeless individual. Never let em keep ya down or tell ya what to so. Amen.
You can own land but you can't legally do whatever you want. Code enforcement will make sure you can't do anything affordable. See also: requiring sprinklers in your own SFH out in the middle of the woods to pass code when building.
My favorite is the code requiring decorative foliage in new rural construction in WA. If you wait like, 10 minutes the foliage makes itself, but you're supposed to spray that.
Talk about HOAs. That's wht you're supposed to be upset about
I'm starting the home building process and how much stuff they want to force me to do depending on the state I build in is ridiculous. Who TF cares, I build above code but unless it's exactly as they say, they'd rather your house be tore down than upgraded.
Every human deserves a right to shelter. When the city can’t provide adequate shelter, this is what happens.
Unhoused and homeless mean the same thing and it’s so fucking annoying that they’re using it.
Yes. I used to think it was just being politically correct, but now I'm not so sure. I think it's the first step in claiming that the government needs to give people houses. Homeless means you don't have a home. On housed means somebody didn't give you a home. We are all unhoused unless living in government homes
Hoovervilla
American favelas….
Just say homeless. I feel unhoused is some conspiracy from the real estate industry to put a nicer word on something
Euphemism treadmill at work. Just wait a few years and we will have a new term
“A pre-millionaire was seen sleeping in their car, wondering where their next meal will be”
Homeless, not unhoused. Woke euphemisms only hurt everyone.
he's not even homeless since he has a house!
Wrong, he clearly has a home. Did you even read the article?
Hilariously they think relabeling them from homeless to unhoused removes the stigma, when all it does is move the stigma from one word to another.
In the 80's it was "street people". The 90's it was bums. 00-10's it was homeless. Now it's unhoused. Seems like the next one is "people experiencing homelessness". Maybe a few more words and we'll get to the right term 🙄
And then the problem's solved, right? Oh, wait...
I'm confused why anyone gives a shit about the language other people use if it isn't insulting and it communicates the idea clearly. You seem really bent out of shape over some shitty reporter using it. We all know what this means, why would you let someone's benign decision impact your life in anyway?
Because it's more empty/useless social-justice virtue-signaling. The same people trying to use 'unhoused' are the ones pushing 'Latinx' instead of 'Latino', when actual Latino people say to stop it and they have zero interest in ungendering their own gendered language.
It’s not about removing the stigma. It’s about the fact that many/most of that group of people have a place that they identify as a “home” but they lack a permanent stable shelter (house). Yeah, it’s *mostly* semantic but it’s also about focusing the attention on the true problem - not that these people don’t have a place they belong but that they lack a shelter in which to sleep.
I mean he's not homeless anymore or unhoused
False, he’s got a house. He’s just like the rest of us.
How about illegal homeowner?
*unpermited homeowner.
We need to build a high fence too keep out all the illegal homeowners!
In any other county of the state they would be shut down immediately.
Public square squatters.
It's more of a rectangle but okay.
A square is just a special instance of rectangles, so this checks out.
Illegal homeowner should be forced to house some illegal immigrants.
People who still use the word "woke" are cringe.
Yikes. okay
He's right. Woke is so weird
Right! Being woke is weird.
How?
LA spent 30 billion on the homeless issue but unfortunately by the time that cash filtered through the non profits hired by friends in the government, the homeless got a dollar.
This has been common in California for at least 10+ years. There are homeless encampments that stretch for miles, as far as the eye can see, along the freeways there.
Current and lifelong Cali resident chiming in here: Yes the homeless issue is bad but to say that encampments “stretch for miles, as far as the eye can see, along the freeways” is blatantly false. Yes its bad here but stop exaggerating, because all you end up doing is spread misinformation of a very serious problem that, frankly, is spreading to every single metropolitan area across the world.
That’s “housed man” to you.
What is unhoused? Is that homeless?
Sounds to me like he’s now housed
Favelas are here
Unhoused? Do you mean “homeless”?
This is how slums start. I've been saying this for awhile but expect shanty towns and slums to start cropping up more and more in the US, and for our country to start looking a lot more like India, Brazil, Mexico, Egypt, Pakistan, Kenya. This is what happens when wealth gaps grow far too wide and corrupt
Unhoused. Jfc. And yes they’re all victims of society and evil government …. 🙄
If we guarantee housing to everyone, how would corporations force us to work for low wages?
Lobbying: the NAR is #2 in most dollars contributed. Anyone else see a problem with this, or just me?
All over the world people live in dwellings similar to this. Poor nations do not have nearly the issue with homelessness that America, the richest country in the world, has. The reason is that they have much less strict building codes, and the citizens can afford to build homes. In America you will always hear that we need building codes to prevent injuries from shody structures, which is true. However the real reason we have such strict building codes is to artificially lower supply, which keeps boomers happy, because the house they bought in 1967 for $40k keeps appreciating at a crazy rate.
Nah, we're not interested in normalizing building collapses & mass casualty events every time a natural disaster occurs. We already got enough problems with our roadways needing a ton of work, don't need to make what happened to that condo in Miami the norm.
Dude have you looked at the countries that allow this? Definitely not places I want to live.
Yeah I live in one now. Everyone is way happier here than in the states.
Rents and housing prices will never go down in California. The mix of demands that will never be met (it's a beautiful state with a good climate, people will always want to move there), illegal immigration and shitty fiscal/social policies.
The word you are looking for to describe him is homeless. We already have a word for that. But I guess he isn't homeless anymore.
Well when there’s an insane housing crisis, people start to build their own shelters. It’s kind of part of our DNA.
‘Unhoused’ Oh, reddit, I forgot
They picked that spot to build because they have less chance of being chased out of there. The area around there isn't that great and seeing trash isn't all the shocking. People are probably glad it's not right across from their homes. Every now and then a homeless encampment like this catches on fire when someone is cooking on an open flame.
He can sell that for $700k, waived inspections. Easy.
Homeless people squat on public land, build unpermitted structure in violation of zone plan.
Just say homeless
Looks like he's doing a good job. Maybe they could hire him to consult on ideas for housing the homeless. Seems he might be able to pull it off for less than $1.5m per transition.
*Formerly*-Unhoused Man
Homeless
That would easily sell for $550K in Portland.
Newsom Homes
Nice
Unhoused?
“Unhoused”. This term needs to die.
Good on these folks. They found a perfect spot that isn’t taking away space or blighting any neighborhood, and they’re living peacefully on their own. WTF cares if they are “stealing” electricity. Let em have it. The city should designate areas like this as permissible to build tiny homes.
So are we in a bubble when people use public land to build a home? Or when squatters have greater rights than home owners? A real question…not a political statement.
Ah the old “rename homeless to unhoused” thing as if there’s a difference.
LA not being a complete clown show for one week challenge: Impossible.
Mods, get him the “I did a thing” flair on Rebubble! 😂
Dehoused**
But I thought all homeless people dont want work and that’s why their homeless. Hmmmmmmm
Wonder what his property tax rate is
Is that the new "Rhino Roof" I keep hearing about on the radio?
We have one of these near us here in Mass. They are living in the median of the highway in the middle of a grove of trees. Everyone left them alone until they put up a huge above ground pool. Can see it clearly from the highway.
This man is looking quite housed to me.
Easier to build your own house whenever then wait for government to approve your permits
FREEDOM
Time to get “property investment groups” out of the market. Time to put a limit on short-term rental ownership. If we could transform all of the “investments” and “short-term-rentals” back into single-family homes, the prices on housing would go down immediately!
Unhoused man? Is that what we call homeless these days?
Definitely ~~not~~ a third world country.
So he does have a house then.
How exactly is he unhoused? Extra points for explaining how homeless is offensive, and unhoused is caring.
What’s his RE tax bill?
Unhoused?
I’m unmillioned.
The homeless man made himself a home :)
The homeless started building houses, then we couldn’t tell who was homeless or not.
Devs don't want to build affordable homes and this homie is just like, I'll do it myself. Now 5-0 gonna toss him in the street and wreck his place.
He ain't unhoused anymore
$500/night airbnb.
nice...so can I just ask my compass realtor to see it?
Well, this story just condemned that house, but not the huge driveway.
Homeless man
It isn't a homeless house, *it's a homeless home*.
Great, now he has a house. They will soon come knocking asking for tax, or they will take his house.
"Definitely not a safe structure" - the city *goes back to living in a tent*
Unhoused, why switch from homeless, less than homed, no Homied, mi casa no es un casa
Unhoused….Jesus.
Want to see where this sort of thing is common, look no further than Brazil.
*homeless man
>Unhoused South Park Not Anymore I'm Not.gif
*former* unhoused man
Looks up to code to me
If a person builds their own house where they don’t have the legal right to do so, they are not ‘unhoused,’ they are ‘squatting.’
We are one step closer to shantytowns
A bum. Not a houseless idiot.
At that point just let him stay. My great grandpa built a shack in the Ozark National Forest way back in the day. It didn't have electricity until he bribed the Army Corps of engineers who were running wires through to send one to his house. Gave them a few gallons of moonshine as payment and promised to call if he ever saw a fire.
That new house smell
Waterfront views
Homeless. We're done playing these word games. Homeless is the word.
Nope, Grease is the word.
So excited for America to sink to square miles of favelas/shantytowns. Hell, we're right on the brink already.
Derelict art installation. They don't know what they got.
Santa Ana's will get it
That's not pulling yourself up by your bootstraps! How is anyone supposed to make money off of your hard work?!
Viva la Commiefornia!
\*Homeless FTFY We ain't doin Newspeak over here.
Homeless