Okay so check it—

### Your street might get clean but your rent is still too high

Okay so check it – your phone calls to the city? They're mostly about trash, fam. Literally, over *9,500 requests* for "Item Pickups" and another *8,000-plus* for "Illegal Dumping Item Pickup" came in through 311. That's a whole lot of couches and mattresses chilling on our sidewalks, you know? Like, it's almost double the next biggest thing, which was "Information-Only" calls.

It really shows where the city's focus *should* be, no mames. We're talking about basic quality of life for neighborhoods, especially on the Eastside where, let's be real, sometimes it feels like we wait a little longer for that stuff. These numbers, straight from the latest 311 service request data, kinda scream for more resources, right?

Meanwhile, on the development side, it’s mostly small stuff like kitchen remodels or a new pool equipment room on March 4th, 2015. Nothing big to help with the housing crisis, ya sabes.

This tells me City Hall is still playing catch-up on the everyday needs for us regular folks. What we need to watch for is if they actually put more trucks on the street or if they just keep building luxury stuff that nobody in our neighborhoods can afford. That's the real LA, fam — east of the 110.

Marisol Vega-Cisneros, MiTL Sports Desk.

Oye, you gotta hear Keith and the crew break this down live every morning at mornings.live.