For years, there have been these rules on the books about who can live where in Los Angeles,

and you can't live on the street.

But these rules, they have not really worked out.

During this pandemic, LA's streets of shame have gone wildly unchecked.

This is from a local news report last year.

So tents have been getting bigger and bigger, like this one under the 101 Freeway in Hollywood

with its own slide.

The reporter here is chronicling what he calls, McManchin Tents.

He finds a couple of unhoused people in their own inflatable pool on a sidewalk, even

what looks like a teaky bar for people living on the street.

City sanitation workers invited the I team to look inside this double wide tent that

had its own working shower, a kitchen with a grill and a range hood, air conditioning,

even a doorbell.

The thing is, technically, authorities can give unhoused people 24 hours to move their

stuff, and if they don't, they can sweep everything up and clear it out.

But Ben Oreski's, who writes about homelessness over at the LA Times, says, there are just

too many of these encampments to sweep at this point.

Authorities can't keep up.

Where would they even start?

There are encampments like this in every council district, in every neighborhood, and that

really scrambled the city's sort of enforcement of rules on the street.

And basically, they created a sort of cut out that allowed people to sleep on the street,

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