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Aug 2, 2021 · How L.A. cleared most Venice Beach homeless camps and sheltered many unhoused people. A homeless man sleeps on a couch while spectators watch as sanitation crews clear an encampment along Ocean ...
Aug 9, 2021 · August 9, 2021 at 1:03 PM EDT. The Los Angeles community of Venice Beach is rich with cultural touchstones: Muscle Beach, a seaside skate park, and the bustling boardwalk filled with street ...
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Feb 3, 2022 · A homeless encampment has been established in the median of Venice Boulevard in Venice Beach. A majority of people who were living along the oceanfront boardwalk have moved to temporary housing or ...
- doug.smith@latimes.com
- Senior Writer
- A Tent Community Grows at The Beach
- The La Sheriff’s Threats
- A Push to House Every Resident
- The Health Crisis at The Boardwalk
- When Sweeps Resume
Venice Beach has been home to an eclectic crowd of artists, street performers, vendors, skateboarders, surfers, tourists, film crews and people without housing for decades. With public restrooms and showers, the beach is a convenient spot for unhoused people. In the surrounding neighborhood, tents have popped up feet away from million-dollar homes,...
As LA has moved to reopen, officials have faced increasing pressure from merchants and homeowners to clear the beach. There are legitimate safety concerns: the conditions can be dangerous and unsanitary for unhoused people, some who suffer from severe health problems and are in need of urgent help. There have been distressing incidents of violence ...
In April, officials in Venice Beach launched an initial effort to clear the boardwalk, starting with the handball court. They started going section by section last month, and aim to finish clearing later this summer. The local councilman, Mike Bonin, has pledged no one will be arrested, and all encampment residents will be offered housing. But the ...
Dawn and Kia Little, camped at the section of the boardwalk that has not yet been cleared, said they were wary of entering any temporary housing program, fearing they’ll end up somewhere with little privacy or many restrictions. “There’s a difference between ‘housing’ and putting us in a motel,” said Kia, 36. The couple came to Californiafrom Las V...
Outreach workers say they’re making some progress in providing housing to the estimated 200 residents at the boardwalk. In the first phase, St Joseph, the area’s main service provider, has placed 91 people into shelter – three of them into permanent housing, and 39 on track for permanent programs, Adams Kellum said. While the city has promised a hu...
- Sam Levin
Jun 28, 2021 · LA Sheriff's Deputies Homeless Outreach Services Team will clean up the Venice Boardwalk before July 4th promise to clear encampments. John Cádiz Klemack reports for NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on June 8 ...
Jul 29, 2021 · 19 of 19 |. Kevin DeMarco, a 56-year-old homeless man, lights a cigarette in a sleeping bag on the beach Tuesday, June 29, 2021, in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles. The proliferation of homeless encampments on Venice Beach has sparked an outcry from residents and created a political spat among Los Angeles leaders.
Jul 29, 2021 · People ride their bikes past a homeless encampment set up along the boardwalk in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles, Tuesday, June 29, 2021.
