More than a year ago, dozens of black camping trailers began appearing on an empty lot, partly a spill of car dealerships in industrial cities.
There, black and white trailer with price tag $50,000 Los Angeles County officials said SAT collected dust until eventually, about 12 people were sheltered in an empty trailer.
Now, temporary homeless camps on Azusa and Gale Avenues are becoming a headache for neighboring businesses and for plot owners who are trying to get the owners of trailers to use the trailers or delete the owners of the trailers.
Trash and occasional fires have reported this pile.
Efren Rodriguez works for neighboring Nissan dealerships NBC 4 News Someone at the camp recently tried to attack him.
“The other day, I came to drive and a guy at five o’clock and they started arguing with me and I didn’t say anything.” Every trailer there was someone inside. Even children and babies. ”
The property owner Legacy Point said in a statement that the campers were not authorized to store in vacant lots and that the owner spent more than a year trying to get the owner of Blackries Campers Inc. (which the company identified as Hongwei Qiu) to pay or remove them.
“While Mr. Qiu acknowledges our ownership and expresses his willingness to pay the appropriate licensing fee, the black industry is not solely used for payments using our property,” Legacy Point wrote in a statement.
The company said it filed a lawsuit in September for compensation and dismissal. The ruling dropped in January, according to city and company officials, when the Los Angeles County Superior Court awarded $95,610 in the traditional spot and ordered the removal of office.
Representatives of the QIU and the Black community were unable to comment immediately.
The area of Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis, who includes Industrial City, said she asked the Sheriff’s Department’s Homeless Services team and the Los Angeles Alcohol and Drug Abuse Center to promote on-site.
City manager Joshua Nelson of Industrial City said the town is helping coordinate cleanups with the property’s owners and the sheriff’s department.
While efforts to clean up camps are underway, the case illustrates the challenges that challenge cities, counties and homeless service providers face when clearing camps on private land.
last year, Homelessness Initiative in Los Angeles County It took half a year to track the owners of several plots in Palmdale, where more than 100 people live in temporary shelters, some two floors higher. The county requires owners to grant the rights of officials to their property before they are sorted out.
In industrial cities, property owners in vacant lots begin a process to get to know the campers when cleaning it in September 2023.
From October 2023 to September 2024, Legacy Point said in a statement that it has tried to solve this problem acquaintly on several occasions.
“These efforts include proposing a legal license agreement to temporarily store black suitcases, sending formal stop notices and issuing tow notices,” the statement said. “Blacks have repeatedly ignored or refuted these efforts, even by removing tires and wheels to prevent traction while continuing to illegally occupy our property.”
In September, Legacy Point said it had filed a lawsuit against the company and its owners. Now, the Sheriff’s Department has enforced a court order to evacuate campers and their people from their lot.
“While we would rather have a faster solution, we recognize that, while sometimes frustrating, the intentional speed of our legal system is a fundamental aspect of ensuring due process for the law,” the company statement said.
