Franklin swings down a rope from a blue camping tent perched a couple of hundred feet high, tucked between a thicket of shrubs and trees about a mile up Tuna Canyon Road in the western Santa Monica Mountains. He’s without a shirt, wearing just a pair of washed-out black shorts. “I dug this spot out a long time ago, maybe 20 years ago, it was only big enough for one person to sit. And it’s fallen down a couple times, but it’s cool. I can get out of here in five seconds if I needed to, for a fire or anything,” Franklin told The Epoch Times. Surrounding the area is the remainder of belongings other homeless people have left behind, Franklin said. Clothes, trash, propane tanks, containers, suitcases, and bicycle parts can be seen in plain view. “All these black trash bags, I take my trash down, and I don’t …