Okay so check it— your City Hall, bless their hearts, is still drowning in basic service requests. Like, literally, it's not even close.

### What's Keeping 311 Busy

We're talking the stuff that affects your daily life, no mames. According to the latest 311 data, "Item Pickups" are still the top dog, with a whopping 9,495 requests. That's, like, almost a thousand more than "Streetlight Repair Services" which came in second with 8,230 calls. And then "Illegal Dumping Item Pickup" is right there too, with 8,140 requests. Oye, it's a lot of stuff on our streets, ya sabes? And it means folks are calling constantly for things that should just... not be there, you know? It's not the sexy stuff like huge development projects, but it's the real LA, fam — east of the 110, we see this every day. It's the little things that pile up, literally.

These numbers tell you that folks in Los Angeles are trying to get basic needs met, and the city's still playing catch-up. What this means going forward? We gotta see if those numbers start to dip, or if we're just gonna keep having mountains of couches on our sidewalks.

Marisol Vega-Cisneros, MiTL Sports Desk.

Catch the whole crew talking about this mess every morning at mornings.live.