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Zachary Ellison @zacharyellison.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Now is a great time to support @roof.bsky.social who is again facing a sweep as an unhoused person in Los Angeles. Please support my colleague in her attempt to stay in her shelter. roofless.substack.com
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roofless | Ruth | Substack
Survival, Belonging & Justice for The Unhoused in LA • Liberation for landless + oppressed people globally. Click to read roofless, by Ruth, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Zachary Ellison @zacharyellison.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The latest with @roof.bsky.social on the pressing questions on housing and homelessness in Los Angeles. In a surprise decision there will be no receivership even as more money than before comes from taxpayers. zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-178-a...
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Part 178: A Homelessness Impasse in Los Angeles? Judicial Nothingburger and Policy Indecision
Published July 2, 2025.
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Homeless New Yorker @homeless-new.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Cc @roof.bsky.social. Let's free #HMIS, #WMS, and #HCH data! ✊
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Zachary Ellison @zacharyellison.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
The latest Inside Safe data deep dive from @roof.bsky.social is worth every point. Do the numbers support the narrative of Mayor Karen Bass on the crisis of the unhoused? roofless.substack.com/p/inside-saf...
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🆕 Inside Safe AUDIT by independent indigent investigator
Nearly 5,000 people enrolled in Mayor Bass’s shelter program in its first two years, and two-thirds remain indoors.
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Zachary Ellison @zacharyellison.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I was impressed at how closely this story by Doug Smith of the Los Angeles Times parallels the coverage by @roof.bsky.social and myself of the LA Alliance Hearings and more. Receivership soon? www.latimes.com/california/s...
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A federal judge weighs turning L.A. city's homelessness programs over to a receiver
After hearing seven days of testimony, a federal judge is deliberating on a request from a group of business owners, property owners and residents to place the city of Los Angeles' billion-dollar home...
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Zachary Ellison @zacharyellison.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The latest with @roof.bsky.social on the failure to address homelessness in Los Angeles. Will an evidentiary hearing and a receivership change the dynamic? There are so many empty beds already in a system gone awry. zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-172-l... 🔥🔍📰😎🖤⚖️
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Part 172: LA Alliance Evidentiary Hearing? A Homelessness Receivership is Coming to Los Angeles
Published May 21, 2025.
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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Hmm is Mylar conductive
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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Join me to chat about homelessness, landlessness and displacement at 7pm on twitter/X, Discord or call 8186001846 twitter.com/i/spaces/1dR...
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Scheduled: Displacement X Spaces for landless people everywhere weekly discussion
🧯landless lady ❤️‍🔥’s Space · Where live audio conversations happen
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Zachary Ellison @zacharyellison.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
The latest with @roof.bsky.social on the decade plus long LADWP corruption scandal. Will former Chief Deputy City Attorney James Clark be disbarred after testimony from a former FBI confidential informant? Don’t miss! zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-169-u...
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Part 169: Unpacking “a litany of horribles” – The LADWP Scandal and Litigation Mysteries
Published April 30, 2025.
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Zachary Ellison @zacharyellison.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
“How many identities must be stolen until none of our personal information has any value? Would that be bad, or possibly a good thing?” @roof.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/roofless...
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The HACKLA
“After applying for Section 8, our private data was in the hands of professional hackers demanding a ransom, making us virtual hostages.”
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Zachary Ellison @zacharyellison.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The saga in Los Angeles continues with homelessness bureaucracy, which today saw the LA County Board of Supervisors vote to create a new agency. Don’t miss the latest with @roof.bsky.social on the audit that shook LA mightily! zacharyellison.substack.com/p/part-163-y...
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Part 163: “You’re dead politically” – Homelessness Bureaucracy and Human Consequences in Los Angeles
Published April 1, 2025.
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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Traci Park receives campaigns contributions from the contractor working to convert Ramada Homekey into housing
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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
This Ramada Inn was purchased for $10M by the State thru Homekey & transferred to @pathpartners for $1M. It received an add’l $8.5M, incl $1.5M from HHH @ at the end of last year. Yet it has been VACANT since 2022! 7 people are dying on the streets of LA DAILY. Who is holding up this housing?
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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
The City pays every night for all 23 rooms at this Inside Safe motel, which has a contract through 9/30, but most of the rooms stay empty:
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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
#DONTMOVE #SquidGame
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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Rick Caruso has named other board members to his nonprofit with close ties to the Trump administration, including Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale. Lonsdale also started the Cicero Institute, a Texas think tank that develops anti-camping bills which have been passed by several states
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Zachary Ellison @zacharyellison.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The audit released last Thursday in federal court by the firm Alvarez & Marsal into response in Los Angeles to the crisis of the unhoused was some serious reading. Will it be enough to change anything? The latest with @roof.bsky.social on the LA powerbrokers coming under scrutiny.
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Part 160: “Some Kind of Action” – A New Homelessness Audit Drops in Los Angeles
Published March 13, 2025.
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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Listen to Ava in her own voice and words open.substack.com/pub/roofless...
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#UnitedtoHouseLA SPEECHLESS after Ava’s public comment
Watch now | On December 12, 2024, Ava pleaded with ULA’s Citizen Oversight Committee for assistance after she had been evicted from her apartment in Venice.
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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 #LosAngeles #homeless #spending 💸💸💸💸💸💸 Who got rich off #ABridgeHome in #VeniceBeach? 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑 #audit #lahsa #reciepts 🦛
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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
It just opened on the 15th! How many houses have been rebuilt yet??
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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
@redcrossla.bsky.social is already shutting down the Duarte #LAFires shelter, making fire victims displaced and unsheltered…
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/02/2025
U.S. Offers PlatinumPlus Preferred Citizenship
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U.S. Offers PlatinumPlus Preferred Citizenship
WASHINGTON, DC—In an 86-14 vote, the Senate approved legislation Monday establishing PlatinumPlus Preferred citizenship, an exciting new program offering special benefits and discounts to select membe...
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LA Public Press @lapublicpress.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The day an atmospheric river dumped almost three inches of rain on downtown Los Angeles earlier this month was also the day that the city of LA decided to uproot a longstanding encampment of unhoused neighbors in Echo Park.
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Why did LA bulldoze an Echo Park encampment during a rain storm?
Mayor Karen Bass’s Inside Safe operations can leave unhoused residents even more vulnerable to the elements.
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Elizabeth Chou @reporterliz.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Why did LA bulldoze an Echo Park encampment during a rain storm? w/ @phoenixtso.bsky.social via @lapublicpress.bsky.social lapublicpress.org/2025/02/la-r...
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Why did LA bulldoze an Echo Park encampment during a rain storm?
Mayor Karen Bass’s Inside Safe operations can leave unhoused residents even more vulnerable to the elements.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
AOC: The order has come down to this committee. Find $880 billion to pay for a tax cuts on yachts, jets, billionaires, and mega corporations while working class people pay higher tax rates than Facebook does. Undocumented immigrants pay more in taxes than many large corporations
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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Please boost by sharing 100% independent, unbought investigative journalism created on the streets of Los Angeles, so more people can read unhoused experiences and learn which lies they have been sold by mainstream press about homelessness & re-housing!
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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
🧵 #UnitedtoHouseLA #MeasureULA #evictiondefense #programimplementation #StayHousedLA #homelessnessprevention #mansiontaxes #transferfees #redlining #reparations #segregation #displacement #renters #tenants #unions #rentstrike #right2counsel #tenantsrights #mutualaid #UBI #SSI #probono #legalaid
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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Alt: a map of LA with #StayHousedLA’s 14 “priority” ZIP codes shaded in
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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
#StayHousedLA #UnitedtoHouseLA #LosAngeles #CityofLA www.stayhousedla.org/priority-zip... ZIP prioritization inevitably creates inequities in legal housing assistance for tenants. #redlining #eviction #displacement #segregation #housing #right2counsel #tenant #union #organizing #rentstrike
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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
(2/2) Why does #StayHousedLA collect #MansionTaxes from every ZIP in the #CityofLA, but #UnitedToHouseLA assistance is denied for all but 14 “priority” ZIP codes in the City of #LosAngeles?
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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
(1/2) I asked ULACOC why #UnitedtoHouseLA had collected $10M in contributions from #MansionTaxes from 10 real estate sales in 90291… …but tenants in 90291 only got $100k in #StayHousedLA assistance!
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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
(2/2) I asked ULACOC why they’re considering helping fire victims in particular. A functional re-housing system would be able to accommodate fire victims’ applications along with everyone elses’…
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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
(1/2) I spoke to United to House LA’s Citizen Oversight Commission on 2/13 about my friend Ava’s eviction. It was the first time ULACOC had met since the #LAFire:
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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Thanks @zacharyellison.bsky.social for sharing my latest piece, “Advocating for Ava”, about my friend who was evicted in Venice, and all the housing which is supposed to be available to her…but is not available for anyone!
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Zachary Ellison @zacharyellison.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The latest from Ruth Roofless on how one woman in Venice is losing her housing is a heartbreaker. How are we this bad at keeping people housed in LA? open.substack.com/pub/roofless...
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Advocating for Ava
Aging tenants like Ava are getting evicted in LA with nowhere to go. On the Westside, many accommodations are supposed to be available for people like her, but they are not actually available at all.
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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
#SuperBowl #halftime #kendricklamar #notlikeus #concentrationcamp #homeless #internment #civilrights #dhs #nola #losangeles #frenchquarter #iberville #storyville #bienville #ords4118 #lamc4118
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Zachary Ellison @zacharyellison.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
The latest with @roof.bsky.social on the evolution of policy in Los Angeles towards the crisis of the unhoused. Will more money really be the solution mixed with some reform? How do we get private entities more invested when so many are kind of NIMBY? open.substack.com/pub/roofless...
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“Just for the record…”
County Measure A and the Future of Los Angeles • Is housing on the horizon?
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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
LAPD’s EPL raid was in 2021, two years after the displacement of veterans from the cottages, which was in 2019. I think I made it sound like it happened in the reverse order in the voiceover
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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
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“Somehow at some point” Part 2
Why do paid homeless advocates align with gentrification goals instead of their vulnerable clients?
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