The Paris Olympics are over. Paris hands over hosting to a city in the western United States. The next Summer Olympics will be in Los Angeles in 2028. In just two years, the city will host some matches of the World Cup. The city of four million in Southern California has already hosted the Olympic Games twice, in 1932 and 1984. What’s it like in this city? For example, he has a big problem with homeless people camping in the center of the American film industry.
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According to Clifton, the city will not solve the problem of homelessness downtown, but will follow the path of San Francisco, which cleared the center of the homeless at the time of the Pacific Economic Community Summit | Source: Reuters
Metro Center is the main transfer station, four lines cross here – red, purple, yellow and blue. Some people say that the subway is dirty and unused, but it is no more dirty than the New York subway. It is relatively clean, part of it runs on the surface and is already tunnelled in downtown Los Angeles.
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According to locals, the subway is safe during the day. But people are afraid to ride it in the evening, because several knife attacks have already taken place in it. The perpetrators were mostly under the influence of drugs. The place where people who have succumbed to addiction or who bivouac on the street live is in the heart of Los Angeles. It is better not to go there on foot at all.
Homeless neighborhood
Not even half a kilometer from the city hall is the Skid Row neighborhood, which today is a homeless neighborhood, according to Andrea Sepulveda, who comes from Colombia, from Bogotá. Everywhere on the sidewalks there are umbrellas, stands, everything is sold here. As Andrea Sepulveda adds, what she sees here in downtown Los Angeles, what homelessness looks like here, she hasn’t even seen it at home.
Veronika Zámečníková, a Czech who has lived in Los Angeles for 10 years, sees it similarly. “People who grew up here and were born here say that homelessness has always been a part of Los Angeles, but it’s never been as bad as it is now. They’re used to it, but it’s probably gotten worse with the rise of drugs on the streets. It probably wasn’t so bad before – alcoholics, poor people, mentally ill people were on the street, but now there are also families, a lot of addicted people, there are different drugs. Some people are brain damaged because they have been on the street for years and no one will put them in an institution because there is no capacity and the city is not active in this direction.”
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Olympic Stadium
The stadium that will host the opening ceremony of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics is approximately five kilometers from downtown on the campus of the University of Southern California. You can get there in less than fifteen minutes with the yellow metro line E. The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum stadium, which holds almost 100 thousand spectators, looks a bit like a Roman stadium, because it is all white with arches, it is lined with limestone blocks and the whole arena really resembles a Roman Colosseum.
It was built for the first Olympic Games, which were held here in 1932, and was also the venue for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in 1984, which, however, was boycotted by most socialist states under pressure from the Soviet Union, including Czechoslovakia.
Pushing the problem
Clifton, a biology student, thinks the Olympics will benefit the city because most Californians have some connection to the Los Angeles area. Many come here to see. Even so, it is a large tourist center.
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According to Clifton, the city will not solve the problem of homelessness downtown, but will follow the path of San Francisco, which cleared the center of the homeless during the Pacific Economic Community summit. They’ll probably just move them somewhere temporarily. They certainly won’t solve the problem in four years, let alone two, when in 2026 Los Angeles will also host some World Cup matches.
Appliance saleswoman Allana is not happy about the hosting of the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. It will mean the displacement of homeless people from the city center and thus the destruction of the livelihoods of many human beings. According to her, it will be a great promotion of the city, but it will have serious consequences for the homeless, because they will be ruthlessly kicked out of the city center, in the vernacular.
California is rich and could afford to pay for finding solutions for the homeless with taxes. But according to Ms. Allany, most of the taxes go to fund the police, and not to social programs that would reduce crime and help people get off the streets.
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