Listen now | Filthy Armenian and Constantin von Hoffmeister talk about the decline of the 24-hour restaurant in the US, nostalgia for Netflix DVDs, streaming shows disrupting the communal spirit, the PSYCHO remake as a Warholian silkscreen painting, Filthy Armenian's films, Armenian history and the American diaspora in Los Angeles, LA as a walkable city, the homelessness phenomenon, cultural integrity in different LA districts, the Mexicanization of LA, and other topics.
Rents and housing costs are definitely a problem in L.A. and in urban California generally. Homelessness has a variety of causes mainly because dumb Republicans like Ronald Reagan defunded and closed down the state mental health system, releasing thousands of seriously mentally ill out onto the streets. Not all homeless dirty bums shooting up drugs and talking to themselves. For every dumpster dweller there are hundreds more sleeping in vehicles or couch surfing. The white working classes and poor have all but been ethnically cleansed from urban California the past 30 years.
Rents and housing costs are definitely a problem in L.A. and in urban California generally. Homelessness has a variety of causes mainly because dumb Republicans like Ronald Reagan defunded and closed down the state mental health system, releasing thousands of seriously mentally ill out onto the streets. Not all homeless dirty bums shooting up drugs and talking to themselves. For every dumpster dweller there are hundreds more sleeping in vehicles or couch surfing. The white working classes and poor have all but been ethnically cleansed from urban California the past 30 years.