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While you may have heard of crack houses, have you heard of “crack tents?” This is the latest phenomenon in the drug community, and it comes at a cost for these addicts. While you may have also assumed living in squalor on a public street is free, some encampments charge rent, with gangs being the landlords.

This is what the left calls compassion, as they allow these people to continue living out their degeneracy for the world to witness. In reality, though, it’s anything but.

In Los Angeles, gangs have taken over many tent communities where they collect rent and deal drugs.

According to the New York Post:

Whether its RV rows choking Compton Boulevard, Skid Row’s packed tent maze or the once-quiet pockets of the Westside, encampments have morphed into open-air drug markets.

This isn’t chaos — it’s control. Gangs blend into the population, hiding in plain sight, running street commerce behind tarps and inside RVs while City Hall looks the other way.

Nowhere is it clearer than Compton Boulevard, where more than 100 RVs sit bumper-to-bumper, windows blacked out. Outreach workers and residents say many are controlled by street crews tied to long-established Compton gangs — used to stash drugs, cook meth and sell straight onto the street.

This is not just one block; many areas on Skid Row also live by the same rules. Things have only gotten worse since drug use has become decriminalized. While users once had the decency to hide their addictions, they now do it in public for the world to see, as they no longer fear being arrested and taken to jail.

“You used to have crack houses,” said LAPD Detective Hugo Ayon, a member of the department’s Gang and Narcotics Division and the FBI Gang Task Force. “Now you have crack tents.”

This is what happens when the left controls the government for decades. What was once a great city has now succumbed to things even the third world would be appalled by. According to officials, it is compassionate to allow people to remain addicted to drugs and live in their own filth, despite the public health risks or damage to society.

It’s also bizarre that the more the city and state spend on housing these people, the higher the homeless population continues to grow. Do you think this could be because the problem has nothing to do with housing and everything to do with the fact that these people are mentally ill and/or addicted to drugs? You do the math.

According to the Public Policy Institute of California, “Californians have consistently cited homelessness as a top issue facing the state, and in 2024, homelessness reached record highs. Of the nation’s 771,500 people experiencing homelessness, over 187,000 (24%) were in California. Two in three were unsheltered, accounting for almost half of the country’s unsheltered population.”

The State of California has spent over $24 million on homelessness since 2019. Yet, for some reason, it “increased by about 30,000, to more than 181,000,” according to 2024 data.

Why does it also feel like every week, a new housing official is charged with fraud over the misuse of funds designated to help homeless people?

A man was arrested in October, “on a mail fraud charge allegedly linked to millions of dollars in grant money paid by the state…for the purchase, construction and operation of homeless housing in Thousand Oaks, in Ventura County.” Last month, a housing official was arrested “ on charges he stole at least $10 million of funding intended for the unhoused and used it as his own piggybank.”

Maybe, just maybe, when people receive millions of dollars to end homelessness, that might be an incentive for those nonprofits to keep the problem going. Draw your own conclusions. Nonetheless, the more the state and city fight to end the problem, the worse it seems to get. Why do you think that is?

You might also assume it is bizarre that billions of dollars could go “missing,” but that is the norm when Newsom is in charge.

Just when you think the problem could not get any worse, it gets significantly worse.

Reports also indicate that hundreds of kids are living on Skid Row.

CPS used to do a thing or two when kids were caught living in crack homes. However, the fact that these are now crack tents seems to be of no concern to welfare authorities. Is this that leftist compassion we keep hearing about?

While I am no housing expert, common sense would tell you it’s not that complicated. Officials don't have to spend billions of dollars to end the homeless epidemic, while pretending to house the “unhoused.” This is because the problem has nothing to do with people falling on hard times and needing a simple handout to get back on their feet, and everything to do with drug dependency and mental illness. But again, I am no expert on leftist compassion, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

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