Unhoused Man Builds Entire House On The Side Of A Los Angeles Freeway

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• hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sounds like he’s not unhoused anymore, and he’s earned some land.

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  • frontporchtreat@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    he’s housed as fuck!

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• elbucho@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Given that it’s Los Angeles, that shelter could probably go for about $175,000.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Big House is gonna buy it up and rent it out on AirBNB.

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    • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Moving yet another long term rental to the short term rental market. Isn’t about time that somebody passed a law preventing existing buildings from being moved to the short term rental market?

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• Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Man the modern hoovervilles are much more disjointed. Mostly tents and reliant on existing structures. This is that old school impressive setup, but I wonder if the police have just gotten better at deconstructing them faster and we will see a follow up of this being taken down within days.

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  • LesserAbe@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When your illegal house is featured on the news safe to say it will get taken down soon. If only because officials feel pressured to take action. Sucks for the people who live there.

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• OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wonder how many offers he’s gotten for it so far.

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• JCreazy@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So is he unhoused or not?

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  • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not anymore, he pulled himself up by his bootstraps !!1!

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• cybersandwich@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So is homeless a bad word now or something? Why did we invent a new word this?

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  • recently_Coco@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A house and a home are not always the same thing.

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• 3volver@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The housing market is a gatekept pile of shit, people getting their time stolen from them for something not as valuable as this fake fucking system makes it out to be. NIMBYism is a core part of accelerationism, let’s go NIMBY fucks.

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  • Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “There are men who, through ownership of land, are able to make others pay for the privilege of being allowed to exist and to work. These landowners are idle, and I might therefore be expected to praise them. Unfortunately, their idleness is only rendered possible by the industry of others; indeed their desire for comfortable idleness is historically the source of the whole gospel of work. The last thing they have ever wished is that others should follow their example.”

    ― Bertrand Russell

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So…favelas anyone? Gotta start somewhere.

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They’ll legalize this and call it groundbreaking while real houses sit empty

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  • andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sadly I doubt they’ll legalize it. It might take too much income away from the poor landlord class!

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    • NightAuthor@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hopefully he can work to make it classified as a legit dwelling, and then he at least gets a bunch of eviction protections.

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  • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’ll demolish this while real houses sit empty

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• masquenox@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Here in the Global South we call that “business as usual.”

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• thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Artist Formerly Known as Unhoused Man

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