Interview · moment 6 of 22
LA's Homeless Crisis and Skid Row Tour
from #184 - Skid Ray | The Tim Dillon Show · #184
4 min
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Tim and Ray describe touring LA's homelessness firsthand, an Uber driver's rant about Jews owning Beverly Hills, an estimate of 145,000 homeless people, and the surreal contrast of tent cities against a beautiful climate.
- LA's homeless crisis is worse than anticipated—tent cities and medieval living conditions with no bathrooms or running water, plus diseases like dysentery returning.
- Uber driver claimed 145,000 homeless people in Los Angeles and went on an antisemitic rant.
- Tim and Ray visited Skid Row and had to leave immediately when three people emerged from a tent.
- LA lacks public housing projects like other cities have, contributing to the homeless problem.
- Projects have problems with crime and muggings in hallways due to poor visibility and diffusion of responsibility.
- Tim deflects from discussing society's breakdown to focus on LA's positive aspects.
- If you're going to experience the end of the world as a homeless person, at least LA has a beautiful climate.
- People don't balance the conversation about homelessness with the fact that dysentery and plague are back but the weather is lovely.