More than a year ago, dozens of Black camping trailers began to appear in a vacant lot that in part serves as an overflow for a car dealership in the city of the industry.
There, black and white trailers with price labels up to $ 50,000 SAT SAT accumulating dust until, finally, a dozen homeless people took refuge in empty trailers, according to Los Angeles County officials.
Now, the improvised camp for homeless people in Azusa and Gale Avenues is becoming a headache for neighboring companies, as well as the owner of the lot he has tried for more than a year to make the owner of the trailers pay the use of the lot or eliminate the trailers.
Montones of garbage and occasional fires have been informed in the lot.
Efren Rodríguez, who works for an Nissan adjacent dealership, told NBC 4 News that someone from the camp tried to attack him recently.
“The other day I arrived at 5 o'clock to get a car and a person, they start discussing with me and I don't say anything. And they pick up a rock, and they throw it to me,” he said. “Every trailer right there, there are people inside. Even children and babies.”
The owner of the property, Legacy Point, said in a statement that the campers were not authorized to be stored in the vacant lot and that the owner spent more than a year trying to obtain the owner of Blackseries CamSrs Inc., that the company identified as Hongwei Qiu, to pay storage or eliminate them.
“Although Mr. Qiu acknowledged our property and expressed his willingness to pay the appropriate license rate, Blackseries has not made a single payment for its use of our property,” Legacy Point wrote in the statement.
The company said it filed a lawsuit in September, asking for damage and the elimination of campists. That ruling was reduced in January, when a Superior Court of the Los Angeles County granted Legacy Point $ 95,610 and ordered the elimination, according to the officials of the city and the company.
Qiu and a representative of the black service could not be contacted immediately to comment.
The Los Angeles County Supervisor, Hilda Solis, whose district includes the city of the industry, said he asked the service team for homeless people of the Sheriff's department and Los Angeles centers for alcohol and drug abuse to make a dissemination on the site.
Joshua Nelson, administrator of the city of the city of industry, said the city was helping to coordinate cleaning efforts with property owners and the department of the Sheriff.
Although efforts to eliminate the camp are underway, the case exemplifies a challenge of cities, counties and service providers for homeless people who face the cleaning of private land camps.
Last year, Initiative for homeless people from Los Angeles County I spent half a year tracking the owners of several lots in Palmdale, where more than 100 people had been living in makeshift shelters, some of the two floors high. The county required that the owners give officials the right to entry to their properties before they could organize cleaning.
In the city of the industry, the owner of the vacancy began a process to eliminate it in September 2023 when he learned of the campers.
From October 2023 to September 2024, Legacy Point said in his statement, he made multiple attempts to resolve the matter in a friendly way.
“These efforts included proposing a legitimate license agreement for the temporary storage of Campists of the black service, sending formal cessation and withdrawal warnings and issuing trailer notices,” reads the statement. “Blacks ignored or refuted these efforts, even disabled their vehicles by eliminating tires and wheels to avoid trailer, everything while illegally occupying our property.”
In September, Legacy Point said he filed his lawsuit against the company and the owner. Now it is that the department of the sheriff makes the court order to eliminate campists and the people of their fate.
“While we would have greatly preferred a more expedited resolution, we recognize that the deliberate rhythm of our legal system, although sometimes frustrating, is a fundamental aspect to guarantee due legal process,” reads the company's statement.
