Residents call for action over Los Angeles 'trash house'
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- Residents in one Los Angeles neighborhood are calling on city officials to take action regarding a property becoming known as the "trash house" that has filled plastic bags piled high in the front yard.
The home is located in the 600 block of North Martel Avenue and residents are not only concerned with getting the property cleaned up but also want the homeowner to be provided with any help he needs.
KTLA's Carlos Saucedo reports on April 2, 2024.
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On a positive note, he's the only homeowner in that entire neighborhood that has not been burglarized.
Even if he has been, who would know?!?
They would leave something behind.
@@mariaevans5793
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Squatter repellant security.
I'm betting the inside of this house looks like the 10th level of hell.
So you've been to the 10th level of Hell, huh......
Guaranteed.
@@kbrewski1you already are if you live in commie fornia.
I don't think that house is livable even if all the trash is cleared out
I heard that it’s spotless inside
Ugh and the worse thing is once that trash gets disturbed, all the roaches and rats and creatures will flee towards all the other houses nearby and in that neighborhood 🤮🤮🤮🤮
That was my first thought looking at it. The bugs and rodents living in there.😳
You are so right I just saw it on the news. It’s all about the rodents now.
Exactly!
HAVE u seen any rats
So True 😮... God bless you all in that neighborhood..
My parents were hoarders, my brother & sisters have been cleaning their half acre lot of many cars, boats, sheds filled with garbage. The inside of the house was unlivable, but my parents lived there anyways, cleaning the inside out of boxes of stuff and so much furniture has been torture, my parents were moved to a 24 hour hospice in January, my mom died 2 weeks ago, she had been trying to remodel their house, and take care of my dad, who is deaf with dementia. It’s been so sad 😭
Sorry to hear that, hugs from my gf and I in Wisconsin. My gf's mom was a massive hoarder too and it's been 3 years since she passed and we're still trying to empty out the house when we have time and energy.
I'm sorry for your loss. Mental health issues can be invisible let alone hoarding. I'm glad at least that your family came together to do the right things for each other. Some people don't have that and my heart goes out to them.
So Very Sorry.
Sorry For Your Loss.
Sending Prayers & Hugs.
God Bless 💗🙏
I'm sorry
My heart goes out to you and your family. Just know that this too shall pass. Sending prayers of love and healing your way.God bless.
The minute that house got a complaint and a city inspector went to see it, it should have received a cleaning mandate. It should never have developed into this.
Previous experience with such violations, most likely, the city is getting an abatement warrant from the court. Also, coordinating with other agencies (law enforcement, Adult Protective, Fire department, vector control, ..) It takes time!
I left California because Karens. I was ticketed because I had the wrong colored CURTAINS!
@@kurtvanluven9351Must have lived in an HOA
@@TikiHi77 Trailer park
yep..
The bugs and smell must be horrible
Right, not to mention the rats.
The rats. Bugs ain’t a big deal
@@samueldavis5895bugs are gross too what are u talking about 🤢🤢
@@rondas7772 😂 we actually need them but I can’t argue with you
And rats.
The A&E show ‘Hoarders’ addresses this type of behavior. Depression is a real thing. Ticketing and fines will not help this person. Mental help and emotional support will, along with support and assistance decluttering the property will help the person and the neighborhood.
The irony is if they would have someone to help them sell all the stuff they hoarded, they would have a 6 figure income. I did foreclosure cleanouts and would take truckloads of stuff home from people's houses that died or lost everything. Stuff that was supposed to be sent to the landfill, I did not. I've found jewelry worth $,9 -$10,000 that came from houses that were in debt. They had no idea the value of what they had and to let it go, or they wouldn't have been in debt.
I thought of that show as well. My issue is that sometimes cleaning out a house that fast can be very traumatic. Some of the episodes are better than others in showing that they only did a couple of rooms or addressed the real issues of the homeowners.
@@MrWolfSnackSame experience here. It's so sad too. Yet they say America doesn't have a mental health crisis.
Oh, ffs. Everybody has a sad story, it’s no excuse. There is an metal heath crisis but to this extent is inexcusable.
That looks like a nice house. Hoarders always have such nice houses, and then they end up being trashed.
Shame on the city for not doing anything. That's just totally disgusting and extremely shameful on the city.
It really is. No city code inspection there
YOU HAVE NO INFORMATION THAT THE CITY IS NOT ATTEMPTING TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT THIS MESS.
I GUARANTEE THEY ARE. IT’S A SLOW PROCESS.
It's their right as an American citizen to turn their house into a landfill
Are they not doing it now?
@@dabears1895yeah getting a dumpster is a slow process huh
I just watched a 100 year old man in a wheelchair get a citation because he didn't clean up his wall that was vandalised with grafitti.
And then I see this. A home owner that has obviosly been collecting garbage for years!
saw that too.. def fd up when one wasn't the guys fault, why IS it his fault need to be painted over- it'll happen again, WHO THE F cares about the fence, and shouldn't be fined for it ... vs an obvious fire, health and rat hazard house , eye sore that the guy is actually doing. something fishy w bylaw.. that paint is a concern and hoarding is perfectly normal.
This news report says he cleaned it up last December but it's amazing he's since then accumulated this much in about 4 months.
Life is about what you can get, not what you deserve or want or what's fair.
@@guitarsrcool4922other people have got to be adding to this yrash
@@guitarsrcool4922 with the downsizing we have done and getting rid of recycling etc garbage from just living... its extremely easy to accumulate stuff by not throwing away things.. and hoarders esp this guy was actively grabbing other ppls literal garbage.. in the clip he's bringing in empty water bottles.. more actual garbage.. smh.
w the hoarder shows.. if they don't get mental health help and help cleaning up it will fill up again.. only faster.
I joke if we didn't downsize we'd be living in the yard in a tent bc the house and yard would ... I imagine look like his LMAO... give me anxieties.
The May 2022 Google Maps photo of the house shows a clean yard, no trash. The owner's been living there for at least 20 years, so I wonder what happened to him in the last couple of years.
Yes!! Exactly❤❤❤❤❤ these neighbors have failed at being neighbors!
They are probably trying to get him to sell his house so. He is probably in protest. The neighbors all look like a bunch of squares
I feel compassionate with the owner, based on some neighbors’ view of him. The authorities should help him with mental health first. It doesn’t matter how often you clean stuff up from the outside, it’s gonna be a waste of effort if he keeps creating garbage from the inside.
An emotional and psychological issue, homeowner is probably a hoarder.
You're kidding! How did you guess! What gave it away?!
Only California with Let It Go though😂
My mother was hoarder. It's amazing what monsters like this are allowed to do before there's any outrage. There should be criminal penalties for this in every state in the union.
Probably?
Ya think?! What tipped you off?
They said he’s been there for over 20 years. Why hasn’t anyone that knows him gone in to see what’s wrong?
How doyou know that hasn't been tried.
@@andrewbillingsley9377 Obviously not.
vans954 Not obvious at all! The owner could have turned down offers of help for all you know !!?? You sound a judgemental person to me !! 😢 kath the wife England
@@gordonhide4539 🤣😂I don’t have time for this.
People that were already suffering, were finished off with Covid anxiety… and separation from a normal society messed up a lot of families and communities! The support is just not there and all whacko now.
This is wild I went through a thing years ago where the weeds in my backyard were getting too long and the city was going to turn off my water and everything because of it.
I can't imagine any Town letting your house get this filled with trash and not doing something much sooner
I had to pay the city to clean up some items that my loser tenants wouldn’t clean up.
Most municipalities wouldn’t let this happen.
A friend of mine has a neighbour whose property backs onto hers. The neighbour is a hoarder. My poor friend and her family have had to endure countless rats and mice coming from the neighbour's property. And that place is nowhere near as bad as this! I can't even imagine the number of rodents scurrying around in all that trash. Not to mention, the stench must be overwhelming. Shame on the city for twiddling their thumbs.
Dear city officials, are you kidding me? How ridiculous is this, to let a house in a neighborhood get away with this for so long???? It is a major HEALTH HAZARD. If the man living there needs help of some sort, well then get the agencies that "help" to help. A disgrace.....
Agree it's a disgrace and HAZARD!
Call the program HOARDERS, they're team will swoop right on in.
Skid Row looks similar. It's been there for decades.
They don’t care until its on the news.
For commenters who don't reside in the city of Los Angeles:
This story is only a small glimpse of what it is like here in dealing with our city government. More corrupt than Chicago, the city council exists to serve developers and foreign LLCs who park their $ here, and is largely why there are so many vacant houses. The actual residents are outnumbered by big $ and get no response when asking for help. It is not like it is in other states.
Holy crap, Zillow says this house is worth $1.3M. Of course, because it's LA. But the owner only paid $144,000 30 years ago.
That's how it is in long beach too in the late 90s folks were buying 90k houses in the hood that are now worth 700k-2 million dollars.
It's insane. Pure greed.
You can't compare anything today to what it cost 30 years ago! I purchased a house for $50 thousand dollars and now it is worth $750 thousand. I also make a lot more money now. It all evens out.
Uh no it doesn't because the average salary one had back then can pay off the average house’s value back then faster. Whatever one makes now is unlikely to pay off the current market value of the average home in the same amount of time. Prices have exploded. Salaries are not keeping up with inflation. Do the math on your own income and see for yourself whether your statement about you is correct. I know many boomer homeowners believing they are fine in this market until something happens and they lose their home. They get back to square one, an impossible feat, for many aspiring homeowners today.
If you bought a home in LA for 50k…
You’re old as hell…. Lol
Why it reached this far?? Why the neighbors took action just now??
Interestingly enough, the neighborhood complains, but doesn’t help.
Maybe the house identifies as a landfill.
ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!🤣 😂😅
😂😂😂❤
Perfection! 😂😂😂
Do they have any cats and dogs.. and I know why its sitting outside. 🐆🐕
Never know 🤥😂
I lived next to someone who did this. The fire inspector came out and made them clear it up because it is a fire hazard.
It also attracts rodents, roaches, and bed bugs.
@@Hatbox948 And rodents attract snakes..Some of them arent the friendly kind either.
Ya but it's California
@@alidi4144 I also live in California
Lord have mercy! What is going on here!?!?!?! Where is his family? It makes absolutely no sense to have garbage like that on your property!😮🤔😲🤦🏽♂️🤷🏽
Hoarding is a complicated disease. It takes support, therapy, and treatment. It's sad really. I'm sure this man doesn't want to be a burden to his neighbors.
or dementia....
I wanna watch this episode on hoarders
and based on true events
if that's the outside, then the inside is gonna be WILD!
It's called depression. They're asking for help that's the way how they express it.
@@walterarias4526That's not how you spell insanity.
Same here. It would have to be a series.
There’s a literal garbage dump in the middle of that Fairfax neighborhood
besides this house? oh cool 👍
He can’t afford it apparently
been looking for a local dump lol
That is a clear sign for help. 😢 Honestly, glad neighbors are taking action, sometimes people need an outside third party hand.
This is a shame. You already know what the inside of the home looks like. The city casts a blind eye and never does what they're supposed to do. I understand that the man has health issues, but damn help him get that trash cleaned up. I know the neighbors feel a certain type of way and are frustrated. They don't want roaches and ants making detours to their house that's right beside his house....and the smell. The city should be ashamed of themselves. Help this man get his trash cleaned up.
Felt like I was watching a Hoarders episode. That trash needs to be removed immediately and the man living in that house should be ordered by the courts to see a mental health professional. Without professional help and someone periodically checking up on him, he will just go back to living this way.
Which is what happened. He cleaned up once but this is the after…..you’re right
I was thinking that too! They should have called the Hoarders team in. They could have cleared it in 3 days.
It could potentially be an elderly person that needs help taking care of themselves.
@@kellypatterson4412 true and likely but where’s family? Why isn’t this person living in a place they can receive full time care
@@kelleywyskiel3478 they may not have anyone to advocate for them.
Com'on this didn't happen over night. I can't even park my boat in my driveway without someone raise the threat level to tangerine
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All of that trash didn't accumulate overnight!...this has been going on for a while and people are just sitting back WATCHING it pile up??...ridiculous! 🤨
What are you talking about people called the city on this house owner but the city just keeps giving them fines did you not hear the news anchor the messy neighbor cleans part of it and lets it build up again. What do you want the neighbors to do 🤷 throw the trash out of them oh wait! let me guess call the cops like that's their job.the neighbors obviously are doing something because it's on the news 🤤
They need to clean it up before something in a bag catches fire
Who the hell is running things in this city? Unbelievable!
15 elected councilmembers, one mayor and one city attorney - all who serve at the request of developers.
Resident tax payers living in the neighborhoods are nothing but pesky distractions.
We've been begging for help from the state the last few years, but subsequently learned they are in bed with the city. The FBI recently indicted 3 of our Councilmembers and still, nothing has changed.
@@allnaturalme Shameful.
Democraps!!!
Democrats
U know that your house is epic when it gets featured in the news
Inside the home is spotless
Its 10x worse on the inside I know that for a fact.
NO ONE SAID ANYTHING B4 it GOT THAT BAD🤬🤬🤬 THEY DESERVE TO SIT AROUND IT
Too PC …🎉it wouldn’t be politically correct ..to say anything to anyone …and not even to the city …what cowards
How was it allowed to get to this level? The city cited me when a hurricane blew the back of my fence down and I had 30 days to get it fixed or they would fix it at a much higher cost to me. They allowed this man to turn his yard into a landfill.
I , for the life of me cannot figure out the laws of our society anymore.
Right!? Like simple laws from yesterday are no more? And when did that change?
Totally agree. This is disgusting and shameful.
It’s California democrats don’t give af
City cited. The issue here is the man’s constitutional rights and the neighbors’ lack of action and self-help. The neighbors should file a private suit against the neighbor now. That will trigger the insurance carrier to engage and it will solve the issue. The government must follow constitutional guidelines and move slowly.
One positive point about all of this is that the trash is all in bags. So if a crew were assembled and a nice big dumpster were rented, a crew could probably tackle that issue in 8 hrs or less. It looks overwhelming but for people that are trained in waste removal, its a small challenge.
Poor guy. Being publicly shamed like that.
Have the neighbors offered to get together and help him clean up? There are many conditions that can cause overwhelm to the point that this happens (ADHD, Autism, to name a couple, but there are a lot of others). He clearly needs help cleaning up and long term help maintaining it, so neighbor help is what's needed. Is it anyone else's responsibility? No, but that's how you build a stronger community, while ensuring that the neighborhood is safe and clean. Rather than just complaining about someone who needs help, HELP! Maybe the neighbors have already offered help and he declined, but it wasn't mentioned in the news clip.
How is this allowed, but if my grass grows past 3 inches, I get fined?! Smh
Same, I had put a mattress on my front porch overnight to drag to road the next evening before I could I got a notice the next day.. like someone must know it’s no correction to this unless the home gets condemned .. smh
You live in a hoa neighborhood, this guy doesn’t
@patrickstomlinsonkilledber3105 Nope! I would never live in HOA. But my house is on a main street so our lawn has to be perfect or we get fined. This guy is literally causing a pandemic in his community, and they are allowing it. I can just imagine all the rodents ugh
@monicamackey4122 Yea, I'm in Dallas, Texas, and they look for any little thing to fine you over. It's so annoying
Yup The Lawn Police come a knockin 😮
I had a neighbor like this and I had a pickup and a smile. With that we started clean up on weekends until it was done. He just needed a little help.
this is literally everything.. You are a fine example of a great human. What I was thinking is how is this one man supposed to get out of this by himself? Especially if he's elderly or has any disabilities or health issues.. Even if someone is perfectly healthy and young this would be hard to get out from under by yourself. Instead all these people are judging and complaining instead of offering to help .. no they don't owe him any help and sure it should be cleaned up but realistically how could anyone tackle that by themselves? There should be more people like you!
1:19 Maybe it’s the neighbors that should be helping (along with the city). Your next video should be of a neighborhood block party helping to clean up this mess along with the aid of the sanitation department. The problem will only get worse with time.
From what I see, there is no way the family that lives in this house can remedy the situation alone. When you all rip off this bandaid it will be very painful for the family living in that house.
@@buzzardclementine4451 This person needs a social worker not his neighbors to do the work for him. They have big mental issues that will 100% have their home looking like this as soon as it’s cleared.
@@notimpossible4294 That's a very good idea a neighborhood block party. Like you said the people in that home can't clean this up alone, they will need lots of help to cleanup but lots of money to fix the damage brought on by this hoard of trash.
@@buzzardclementine4451He’s been like this since 2014, when he first got cited. Get off your high horse, and actually listen to the report.
The city should be involved fixing this problem but social services should also go help them. Mental illness can ruin lives in more ways than one.
Heaven forbid you don’t pay a traffic ticket, but this home owner ignores continuous citations… wow.
That’s a dirty and toxic tragedy. Looks like a well maintained neighborhood, too.
It is. I used to live near that area. It's close to Southeast Beverly Hills
Google images dated May 2022 shows a normal looking house. It's crazy that this could get in the condition in less than two years.
It could be dementia, or physical incapacity.
Probably hoarding
That photo may have been taken during the time the neighbor described when the property had been cleaned up (but has since gone back to being a nightmare).
Crazy part is this man CLEARLY needs Therapy. Hope he gets the help he actually needs
Unreal! How does that person even own a house like that?????
If that is what the outside looks like, can you imagine what the inside looks like?
Or smells like
Or the air quality or the fire hazard.
Don’t know how he could possibly get in or out of his house!
The city needs to help the guy, not fine him.
Yes, the city needs to send trash trucks and excavators to pick up all that trash. He can probably afford the fines, judging from the neighborhood he lives in. That's not solving the problem of his trash.
kind of looks like the city is the one in need of help and fines, if this was to be solved
Poor man has anxiety issues and depression..he needs help and understanding.
Damn! I don't even want to think about how bad the inside looks and smells! 😮. Get the home owner some mental help for hoarding PLEASE!
When it gets that bad, don't ask him to get it to the curb, go in and take it, duh.
The mayor and DPW should just go over there and ask if they can help the guy out and remove all the trash, come on Mayor get your hands dirty!!!
If the mayor lived next door, it would be cleaned up in two hours.
Mayor Karen Bass is plenty dirty.
What a beautiful home. I hope they can save it. So sad. That person needs help and the neighborhood shouldn’t have to tolerate it.
It burnt down
I hope the home owner gets the mental help and support he needs. Very sad.
The owner needs assistance and the right help regarding his situation.
Is this the same house again? At this point, its just wasting taxpayer money, how can they not sue this person?
or just get some help for that person, mental help, with some home visits from a social worker. So it wont happen again.
It isn't tax payer money, they are charging the man.
@@annestovgaard681 it's been ten years. How much more coddling does this man need.
How will suing him help anything?
@@Anthony-vh6efif they don´t do anything, nothing will change... so give the man the mental help he needs. Just ignoring the problem, is not coddling! This is what happens, when no one gives a xxxx. Until it´s a HUGE problem.
That is DISGUSTING. Why should the neighbors have to pay HOA fees if that crap isn’t getting taken care of?
HOA is a scam organization. It takes money that does not belong. Ppl need to fight the system to rid of HOAs. I don’t want to hear about HOAs anymore.
Well the 1st mistake paying Hoa fees...also who said they were doing that?
HOA fees? Nah fam.
Probably not an HOA neighborhood,its a health,safety and fire hazard.Cant the Fire Marshall step in ?
@kjdnyhmghfvb Usually nicer neighborhoods have a HOA to make sure people are keeping their homes nice and presentable. HOA's can be a pain, but they're also good in the sense that they keep neighborhoods nice and clean
Where are the city officials? It boggles my mind that the residents had to force the actions of the city officials. Someone is NOT doing their job. Yikes!
Could you imagine what the inside looks like??
I’m surprised the city doesn’t give the homeowner a citation and take him to court to address the issue or help the homeowner with maybe mental health??😢😮
This is the hoarding disorder is an ongoing difficulty throwing away or parting with possessions because you believe that you need to save them. You may experience distress at the thought of getting rid of the items.
The fact that it was allowed to get to that is ridiculous.
Has anyone offered 2 help instead of condemning?
The way u judge, will be the way u receive judgements.Truths💯
Dangerous health conditions.
Please wear mask wherever near it. Home owner needs help and care.
The man just needs help, maybe the council could give him some house help weekly, but it is quite sad when a person becomes so detached from himself and the world even to allow such deterioration to happen. He clearly needs help. Wish all gets resolved and he does get help or it won't ever change.. x
Don't understand why the city/municipality allowed it to get to this point. We were doing construction and had left a partial survey fence up, then heavy winds took down a couple pieces; within three days a letter came in mail from city code "we had 15 days to repair the fence as it was a danger to neighbor." If the owner is elderly and a little mental, can't the neighbors or family help him to clear some of the garbage?
They need social service to be called instead of calling the city , If his an elderly he could be suffering from dementia or just a hoarder either way he needs help
Get together people and help this guy , that’s all it takes ,,
Dam I live in a small town they yell at us if our grass gets to high to
That’s ridiculous! Why was it allowed to go this far?
In newzealand the local council will give you a warning to clean up the health hazard by a certain date and if you dont the council has the right to come onto your property and clean it up and then bill the owner for the job done.
If he owes fines can't they put a lien on the property?
He pays them. Plus also to take someone's home of 30 years because of arbitrary fines...is really messed up. If they want to do that send a couple of trash trucks to collect the trash bags, it would be so much cheaper than going to court and putting lines in property
@kjdnyhmghfvb then he needs to get help. Others shouldn't have to suffer because his inability to be responsible.
They will put a lien on this house…
That is a huge mental issue 😮
Praying for the home owner hope he is able to get help..so sad😢🙏🙏🙏
I can't believe they allowed it to get this far, its a major fire hazard
it's art! Rats love that piece!
Yes, this needs to be taken care of but let’s be honest the neighbors are not concerned about the people living inside this house. They are concerned about their multi million dollar homes, not retaining value.
Wouldn't you be? They work and pay heavy-duty taxes to live there
@@marigolds49 yeah you’re right I would be, I’d be enraged and I wouldn’t be sugar coating it by stating I was more concerned about the health of the people living inside.
@@kananeesh7900 why can’t it be both?
Idk. I'm sure some of them are worried about the owner too. I don't blame them for worrying about their homes value.
@@earthangel2522👍💯
Maybe neighbors could help him get it cleaned up until the city does something. Sometimes we all need a boost. ❤️
How does a city let it get that bad in the first place? You know cops had to have driven past it, and the health department HAS to have already known about it.
If it's this bad outside, what's it like inside?
I am sympathetic to this man because he obviously has problems. I think the city shouldn't expect him to clean it up because obviously he is not in the right state of mind. I think the city should send people to clean it up but at a reasonable cost. The city bills him thousands and thousands in late fines, non compliance fines, and when they do send someone to clean it up they charge him a crazy amount.
If they helped the guy, with some therapy etc. It wouldn´t have ended up so bad. Taking care of a small "problem" is always easier and cheaper, than a big one. That is how you produce homeless people, you don´t help them when they have a home.
@@annestovgaard681 Help Wanted
Clean it up L.A. It doesn't matter who cleans it up , its a Health Violation and putting people at risk ! Gavin can pay the bill himself.
@annestovgaard681 this is the most valid statement I have ever read. Why is it so hard to help when the problem/issue is small before it gets worse. It's sad and shameful that there is not more help available to prevent or at least reduce things like this happening.
I hope he gets the help he needs.
If his neighbors are that concerned, I wonder if they tried helping him before it turned into this.
Intended to keep police, authorities, whoever out. No choice but to condemn the property since it’s a public health hazard.
The city will GLADLY come in and clean it,
And then put a lien and take the house,
Happens all the time
Just by looking at the roof alone, that house is falling apart. It’s in bad shape
They're not going to do anything. All they're going to do is talk about it. 2 years down the line watch it get twice as bad and they still haven't done anything.
How did the city even let it get that bad, it looks like a landfill. Absolutely unbelievable and unacceptable.
I see all these negative comments it's obvious he does have an issue. Mental and or physical. His neighbors especially should try to help. That IS the neighborly thing to do. But, people don't want to help others in need like they used to do. They just want to call authorities on this poor man. I PRAY he gets the help he "needs". Not what others think he needs but what he actually needs.
To be fair to them, it did sound like they have been patient and have tried to do what they can to help, but obviously the situation has gone far past untenable. Asking the city to intervene might be a method of helping, frankly. That is definitely too much for any one person to handle. I get what you're saying, and the man obviously needs help, but you have to consider that people in so obviously dire a state of mind will often reject it. Trying to force their own assistance--say by proactively taking out the trash--could go poorly for them in any number of ways, depending on how the homeowner reacts. Maybe it could make things worse for the homeowner, because something about shaming by your neighbors hits different from someone just enforcing rules, ykwim? Sometimes resorting to pressure by authorities is the only thing that can get someone to move. It's also worked on the homeowner before, according to some other comments by people who've looked up the situation. Again, get what you're saying, but this doesn't seem like a situation that serves as an example of the decline of the concept of being "neighborly." And the city is in a better position to provide resources to help him than his neighbors are.
@@babybaklavagus I honestly feel bad for everyone involved, The owner and all his neighbors. For different reasons of course. You can just tell if it keeps getting this bad after it has gotten cleaned up before that it's a mental and physical health concern. I just pray that the owner gets the help he needs while still being able to live in his home. He may need an IHSS worker that can help him keep at least the inside of his home clean.
I appreciate your comment. And, Thank you for being kind in your words. Blessings to you.
@@roseannapage3662 Yes, I am with you on all of that; it's truly a difficult situation. And I've learned something--I've not heard of IHSS before! Best wishes to you as well.
@@babybaklavagus IHSS is short for In Home Supportive Services. They help people who are unable to do some things for themselves.
Thank you. Blessings to you.
What are the odds that the inside of his house are immaculate?
Very low lol
In the negative.
That would actually be hilarious though.
Slim and None🙄
How does this happen? How does the city allow it to get to this point? Clearly there is a problem with this homeowner so immediate intervention is needed. So what, we just let our neighborhood go into the grown! It’s mind-boggling. It just baffles me.
😂😂😂 silly boy lol 😂😂😂
Look around at our society in general! 😂
Because it’s California and they do performative acts and not really do anything to really help the people or the city
Please identify as understanding
Blame the man
In LA this isn’t Trash - It’s Street Art. It’s hosted by a homeless Artist Collective known as Arte De La Calle. It’s an original piece and currently for sale by Sotheby’s for 2 Million Dollars - House Included!
You guys could, I don’t know, get a few people together and offer to help clean it up for him instead of whining to the government about it.
It took the neighbors this long to get " fed up? " You can smell that dump from space. A very tolerant bunch.
I was thinking the same thing ….I could not agree more ..honestly I would have moved. They said this has been going on since 2014. Can you imagine 10 years?😂
I looked up the house on google maps and it's sad seeing how that house can change in two years so suddenly with trash and how quickly a situation like this can get out of hand. The man needs help and serious therapy.
So sad to see such a nice home go to waste. But I can see how this can happen. Some people are fragile and eventually break. Family and friends needed to step in long before it got to this point. Touch love is better than ignoring the situation. Mental illness is very real, perfect example right here.
How is he getting OUT of the house to get more stuff to put back IN the house?!?...
This begs the question, How does this property get like this in the first place? Why did the city not pick up the trash regularly with the rest of the neighborhood's weekly pick up day? And why did workers not report it early on? One would also think the City Inspector would have been out long ago.
i'm wondering if the mailman has to walk through this everyday. The U.S Postal service should have contacted the City. How does this person get groceries, and walk through this mess.. The neighbors should ban together and order several dumpsters. Let the owner complain, and then the city will get involved.
He produces way more trash that city garbage day could ever keep up with. The story really isn't saying how many times an inspector has been out, but I'd wager there have been a few visits
Entitled people who look a certain way
@@quaithom3138 Probably have community boxes. Otherwise they can refuse to deliver if the box is at the door.
That's what I'm wondering. People in a neighborhood like that would've complained after just a few bags were left out, so the fact that it somehow is at this point just makes no sense at all.
Also, how in the world does one person even CREATE this much waste in the first place?? It seems like that huge pile has to be YEARS old to have accumulated that much from just one person.
If I were one of his neighbors, I'd have probably started taking his trash to the dump myself, long ago, so that it couldn't end up like this.
I'm not saying that it should be on the neighbors to fix it, of course, but if they want it done, they're going to have to do it themselves instead of fighting the red tape while it somehow keeps building up.
Order some dumpsters and make a week of it, community cleanup style. Then visit the poor guy and bring him cookies or something, come on.
That’s a life and safety issue Shane on the city for allowing this toxic waste to settle and seep into the soil .
This is heartbreaking no one simply chooses to live like this.
I hope he get the help he needs.
I like how they brought the news chopper out on the scene lol
I hope this man gets the help he needs, he clearly has a mental condition 😢
he could go live at the dump like Ray from TPB