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City Cleans Up Venice Homeless Encampment That Has Been Linked To Canal Fire

It appears after weeks of residents filing complaints, it took a fire that burned down people's homes to finally get the city to do something about the Venice Blvd homeless encampment:



From Santa Monica Close Up:

"City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works sanitation workers in white hazardous materials suits, with the Clean Harbors Hazardous Waste Management team, perform a major cleanup at homeless encampments on Venice Boulevard in Venice on Wednesday, October 5, 2022. Los Angeles Police Officers were onsite during the cleanup. LAHSA (Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority) provided homeless outreach. No citations were issued. "

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2 comments

  1. That was just a regular clean-up. When the clean-up was completed, the folks returned and the tents went back up.

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  2. The city calls this Homeless Services. Along with the city folks doing the clean-up, several cops are standing by to address any issues. It is very expensive and on-going as the city allows camping on public sidewalks and has to do these clean-ups as the camp sites quickly become over-whelmed with garbage and things retrieved from our garbage cans. This is how the city is spending money ear-marked for addressing homeless issues. This money is not going to addressing the needs of the many mentally ill folks trying to survive like this. This money is not going to creating safe places for the homeless to go to get them off the streets. Even when such places exist, the folks camping near me choose the streets because it does not come with restrictions or rules. Camping on the sidewalks in the city is NOT OK. The folks doing it have a life that eventually causes then PTSD. The residents have to live with the noise, the filth, and the crime that inevitably rises when the city descends into such chaos.

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