Your neighbors are tired of trash on the streets, no mames

Okay so check it—your City Hall, like, the place where all the big decisions for Los Angeles get made? They got a whole lot of calls last month, ya sabes. And what do you think people are literally calling about the most? Not, like, fancy new developments for luxury condos nobody asked for, even though we know they're still building those.

What Angelenos are actually worried about:

* **Trash and Junk:** Almost 9,700 calls for "Item Pickups" and another 8,179 for "Illegal Dumping Item Pickup." That’s almost 18,000 calls just about stuff left on our streets, fam!

* **Homeless Encampments:** A super important and heartbreaking 1,524 calls about homeless encampments. This is real, and it’s happening all over, not just under the freeways on the Eastside.

* **Graffiti:** Over 3,500 requests for graffiti removal. It's like, you clean it one day, and by the next, it's back, right?

These numbers, straight from the city's 311 service requests, show us what's really on people's minds. It's not the big, shiny projects; it's the everyday stuff that affects our neighborhoods. This tells me people want the basics handled, first and foremost. The city's gotta figure out how to keep our streets clean and address the homelessness crisis with more than just temporary fixes.

That's the real LA, fam — east of the 110.

Marisol Vega-Cisneros (@mari_v_eastside)

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