Calls to 911 have skyrocketed from tiny home communities where some of the city’s tens of thousands of homeless live across Los Angeles.
During the first eight months of 2023, North Hollywood’s Alexandria Park, which houses about 150 people, was responsible for more than 170 calls to emergency departments, including police, paramedics, and the fire department.
At the Whitsett West Village tiny home community, off the 170 Freeway in the San Fernando Valley, 160 emergency calls were placed.
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The tiny homes are about 64 square feet and have two beds to be shared with assigned roommates – some who are proving not to be getting along.
Among the calls reviewed by KTLA include complaints of suspected assault, threats, weapons, suicides and overdoses.
Last month, a man was found with a gunshot wound outside the Alexandria Park village.
Emergency services were on the scene at around 2.30am on October 17.
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LAPD records show that some 20 percent of the emergency calls from two of the North Hollywood tiny home villages were for suspected overdoses or suicide attempts.
The villages each have staff who help residents navigate public assistance systems, like disability. They also search for more permanent housing options for their residents.
The tiny homes are meant to be temporary solutions for individuals who would otherwise be on the street.
However, the staff are not equipped to deal with the degree of mental health crisis unfolding at the villages.
One village resident confirmed to the outlet that the staff are not prepared ‘to handle the different types of situations going on in here.’
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He had previously been roommates in his tiny home with a man who overdosed on drugs, but survived.
Rowan Vansleve, the president of Hope the Mission a nonprofit that runs four of LA’s tiny home communities, said he is not surprised about the number of emergency calls coming from the villages.
‘I think first and foremost, it’s a lot less than calls going to active encampments with same amount of people. Anytime you put well over 100 people in one site who are in crisis there is going to be an element of law enforcement needed,’ he said.
‘Many of our guests … have been on streets for 3, 4, 5 years. The amount of trauma that somebody has endured and depths of mental health issues and addiction issues are unprecedented,’ he added.
He told KTLA that he thinks there should be more mental health staff across the villages, seven days a week to deal with urgent situations.
At present, the A-Mark Foundation estimates that the average cost per bed for the LA tiny home villages is about $42,000.
A different calculation pegs the figure at $2,663 per person living in the tiny village per month. The estimate claims that the cost of running each tiny home each month amounts to $3,300, more than the average monthly mortgage on a median-priced LA home (in 2021).
Last week, a massive fire beside LA’s I-10 freeway burned down a homeless encampment situated underneath the overpass.
Dwellers were forced to flee as chunks of supporting concrete columns collapsed. It’s unclear if there were any injuries as a result of the blaze.
Democrat Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says the city will "master lease" entire hotels so homeless encampments can all move in together pic.twitter.com/48vdjO376M
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Newsom declared a state of emergency after a massive fire broke out in Los Angeles causing a major freeway to shut down. Many suspect it started in a homeless encampment littered with drugs housed under the freeway.
Did you know that in 2021 there was an average of 25 fires a… pic.twitter.com/oRcMRF27MN
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🔥Another under-bridge homeless fire in Los Angeles. This one is along the 110 Harbor Freeway. #10Freeway #i10fire #LosAngeles 📛 pic.twitter.com/Bxxv7bwIoC
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The 10 Freeway in Los Angeles will be closed indefinitely due to a fire that erupted underneath the busy interstate. The fire was likely started due to massive homeless encampments.
Xi Jinping should visit LA next and then they will clean it up! pic.twitter.com/jcAceDNwLs
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) November 13, 2023
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