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Your LA streets are piled high with 8,908 couches.

Your city hall is really dealing with our junk, literally

Okay so check it— your City Hall is basically swamped with us asking them to pick up our stuff, ya sabes? The latest 311 data, and this is for real, shows "Item Pickups" and "Illegal Dumping Item Pickup" are, like, the top two issues. We're talking 8,908 requests for regular pickups and another 6,968 for illegal dumping. That's a *lot* of couches and old fridges lining our streets, no mames.

It's literally what Angelenos are asking for most, beating out graffiti removal and even homeless encampment requests, which are still super high at 1,662. It just tells you what's on people's minds when they hit up the city.

This isn't some Westside problem, fam. This is everywhere, from Boyle Heights to the Valley, people are just trying to keep their neighborhoods clean. What this means is our city services are really stretched, trying to keep up with all the junk that ends up on our sidewalks. We gotta see if the city's gonna throw more resources at this, because the numbers are clear.

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

— Marisol Vega-Cisneros

My homies on the morning show totally get into this — catch them live at mornings.live.

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