Video footage captured Rep. Maxine Waters telling a large group of homeless people gathered in south Los Angeles to “go home.”
The event took place on Friday, but cellphone video made its rounds on social media afterward. In the footage, Waters appears to be surrounded on all sides by people seeking housing vouchers.
“I want everybody to go home,” Waters told the crowd.
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“We don’t got no home. That’s why we’re here,” one woman responded off-camera. “What home we gonna go to?”
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This group of homeless people had gathered outside the Vermont Community’s Family Solutions Center under the false pretense they would be receiving housing vouchers. Many can be heard in the video asking where they can apply for Section 8 vouchers, which, according to the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, closed its waiting list until further notice.
“Nothing is going to happen here today,” Waters told them. “Nothing is going to happen anymore today.”
Waters went on to promise that she would continue to work with the HACLA and the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority later that same day.
“That’s why they’re out here today,” Waters said while outside the Family Solutions Center. “I made them come out here.”
Waters originally reported she had just been passing by the area when she noticed the crowd and decided to intervene. She reportedly went on to threaten an employee of the Los Angeles Times for covering the story.
“You’ll hurt yourself and the community trying to put this together,” Waters said.
President and CEO of HACLA Doug Guthrie confirmed to the Washington Examiner that he personally received a call from Water’s office Thursday afternoon to alert him of the situation. Guthrie also said the chief program officer was in attendance with representatives of the LAHSA.
When it came to Water’s claims that she “will be downtown with LAHSA” and “get the housing authority,” Guthrie denied that Water has met with anyone from HACLA. He went on to say he hadn’t heard from her office since receiving that call Thursday. However, he seemed hopeful the two would be in touch soon.
As the crowd reacted to the news, people confronted Waters with their problems. One woman claimed Waters’s own district director, Blanca Jimenez, was refusing meetings with LAHSA.
“Excuse me, there’s nobody in Washington who works for their people any f***ing harder than I do,” Waters said, raising her voice. “I don’t want to hear this. No, no, no.”
“That’s what I do every day.”
“What you do every day?” a woman yelled back off-camera. “I still live on the d*** streets.”
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Waters has served in the House of Representatives since 1991.
