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Los Angeles didn't make homelessness disappear. It pushed it into the infrastructure.
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A hidden city under LA isn't compassion. It's civic surrender.
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Taxpayers keep funding solutions, but the crisis keeps building itself a shelter right underneath them.
BRIEFING
Grant here. The homeless situation in Los Angeles has been rapidly deteriorating, but much of what we see is only on the surface. Literally. Turns out there's a growing "underground" homeless encampments where a lot of these people have beds, shower setups, cooking areas, and what appears to be access to power. Let’s break it down.
A recent post on X gives us all a sneak peek at one of the hidden homeless settlements beneath Los Angeles. We're shown one guy's little makeshift home, underneath a traffic bridge, and it's complete with lighting, tables lined with what appears to be drug paraphernalia, a comfy-looking bed with stuffed animals, a shower, a living room, and a place to cook. It's a setup that looks less like a temporary camp and more like a small underground home built into public infrastructure.
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The homeless are now living under the city of Los Angeles
There is basically a small city of homeless under this part of LA
It’s a vast network of makeshift homes and even looks like there are tables setup full of likely drug paraphernalia
It has lighting throughout so they’ve definitely tapped into the city’s power grid. Taxpayers are paying for their energy costs
These people are living down here for free, getting energy for free, guaranteed they all have EBT cards and free health insurance
It’s like a self contained city 100% paid for by taxpayers
This streams 3rd world country but it’s in Low Angeles, California. One of the most expensive, once iconic places on earth
The homeless are now living under the city of Los Angeles
There is basically a small city of homeless under this part of LA
It’s a vast network of makeshift homes and even looks like there are tables setup full of likely drug paraphernalia
It has lighting throughout so they’ve… pic.twitter.com/9lJFttFnp2
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The biggest thing here is, "How does this guy have power?" Well, according to him, someone came and cut a wire, which suggests the setup had been connected to electricity somehow before that line was cut. Regardless, he has power, and it doesn't seem he's the one paying for it.
But this isn't an isolated incident. Los Angeles has been reporting plenty of homeless encampments tying cables to power poles, creating fire-safety concerns. NBC Los Angeles reported in 2025 that several encampments appeared to be drawing electricity from nearby power poles, and LADWP’s own utility theft page says stolen electricity and water costs are ultimately passed on to customers through higher rates.
The city spends huge sums of taxpayer dollars on homelessness, and then on top of it, ratepayers absorb the cost of utility theft, all while watching public spaces deteriorate into homeless settlements. This is a lose-lose situation for everyone in LA, except for the homeless.
The LA Controller’s homelessness dashboard says the city is facing an “unprecedented homelessness crisis,” and LAist reported in March 2026 that Los Angeles left about $473 million in homelessness funds unspent in fiscal year 2025, after another $513 million went unspent the year before. So clearly, the money is there to do something about the crisis, but yet, nothing has been solved.
DEBRIEFING
The most frustrating part of this story is that Los Angeles has already poured enormous amounts of money into homelessness, yet the crisis keeps getting more entrenched, more visible, and, in cases like this, more hidden inside the city’s own infrastructure.
The video shows a man trying to "survive" under a bridge, but it also shows that this level of government failure in LA has seemingly become the norm. Rooms, beds, cooking spaces, showers, wires, power workarounds, and entire makeshift setups don't just pop up out of nowhere. They grow in the gaps where public policy, enforcement, housing programs, and accountability all break down at the same time.
LA taxpayers keep being told the money is going toward solutions. But when hundreds of millions are sitting unused and people are building literal homes under bridges, something is clearly amiss.
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I believe Spencer will come close, but Bass + fraud will win, because progressives can not afford to lose LA, much less CA in general.
Spencer will get the most votes…but he won’t win the “selection.”
Already from the comments its common knowledge it will be stolen.
Whats worst is the people will comply and know it. Pathetic.
“Homelessness” (we used to call them “bums”) will never get resolved by throwing money at it, although that’s the solution demorrhoid-run governments always use.
And the dirty little secret is that 99,9% of “homeless” are voluntarily so – they simply make the conscious decision that they aren’t interested in participating in a structured society, with it’s rules, laws, and expectations. They just check out.
People with that attitude towards society can’t be “rescued”, nor do they want to be. No sympathy here.
shades of The Demolition Man