Tents of homeless people line the west side of Echo Park Lake on March 4.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
Posted on 03/23/2021 3:52:49 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Under a veil of secrecy, Los Angeles city officials and homeless services providers are rushing to move as many homeless people as possible from Echo Park Lake this week in advance of an expected sweep to remove more than 100 tents and fence the entire park for repairs.
City Councilman Mitch O’Farrell, who has said he planned to close the park, has declined to confirm the timetable, but a source with direct knowledge of the process told The Times that the city plans to clear the encampment Thursday, fence the park and close it for renovations.
O’Farrell spokesman Tony Arranaga declined to confirm that date, saying only that the city has been working to move people from the area into hotels.
Over the last year, the encampment has evolved into a commune-like society with a shared pantry, a garden, a veneer of self-policing and a tenuous grasp on basic sanitation. It has divided the Echo Park community and became a case study of the conflicts arising in neighborhoods across Los Angeles over the rights to public spaces and the competing interests of the housed and unhoused.
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City Councilman Mitch O'Farrell... spokesman Tony Arranaga declined to confirm that date, saying only that the city has been working to move people from the area into hotels.
Looks nice from the air. They should make it a graveyard since so many bodies have been found there over the years.
Echo Park was a reall nice place in the 50s and early 60’s. But like everywhere else, it/. My mom lived at the YWCA down the street for a while. Now I would not walk anywhere near it in broad daylight
It isn’t a secret anymore.
Do they get a chocolate on their hotel pillows?
I work in Santa Ana which is about 40 miles south of Echo Park. It is the Orange County with the most homeless people. This population has been growing bigly in recent years. The numbers are quite large. Since about last summer the city has actually been cleaning out some of the worst areas. Then the city follows up after a few weeks and does again.
Good job City of Santa Ana.
round up all the Homeless and put them in the Coliseum, there is plenty of room, all mental health and medical service is close, all government is close so the politicians can check up daily..
Basic city services are being thrown out the window in favor of pursuing narratives that actually do more harm than good.
Cops used to arrest people for littering, jaywalking, running red lights, etc. Even truant kids were picked up. Now cops are essentially nothing more than street-level mall security guards.
Over the last year, the encampment has evolved into a commune-like society with a shared pantry, a garden, a veneer of self-policing and a tenuous grasp on basic sanitation.
= = =
OK
This Woke group has started the pathway toward Utopia.
Democrats/Liberals/(Marxists) take note and follow.
A good novel with LAPD detective Harry Bosch...
Echo Park is close to Dodger Stadium...This park is near the exit from 101 Freeway...
USC might complain about that...Coliseum is near USC...USC is very concerned about its image...
Yeah, Glendale Blvd/Echo Park Ave exit. A seriously creepy place. Every other person on the streets looks like a parole.
USC is concerned about its image?
Boy they should be. Lots of senseless murders in that area.
SC went full liberal - they can have them.
Murders...They do happen...Many years ago, a group of Hispanic gang members murdered a USC student...He was from China...
Area around USC is not nice...But, many kids from wealthy families still attend USC...
USC built a nice shopping mall on Hoover Ave...It has a Target store...
USC should jump at the opportunity to send all their Professors and Students in Mental Health and Social Services down there to prove how great their Teaching and Programs are. They should be able to Cure all the Homeless within months. After all isn’t that why they charge so Much? Because they are that Good right??
My way allows them to PROVE IT!!!
Aren’t all of you in LA delighted that your taxes will now house homeless in HOTELS???
I left there almost 28 years ago, and I don’t miss anything.
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