Building back better in Los Angeles.

[Thinker101]

With a homeless encampment stretching across much of the Venice Beach boardwalk and a spate of recent crimes alarming residents, the calls for city officials to take action have grown to a cacophony.

The number of tents on the beach has grown since 2020, when the pandemic hit, leaving millions jobless and creating more housing insecurity in a city already dealing with a homelessness crisis.

At last count, there were nearly 2,000 homeless people in Venice, according to a Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority count done in January 2020 that found more than 41,000 unhoused people citywide. This year’s count was skipped due to the pandemic, but experts expect those L.A. figures to continue climbing into 2023.

The numbers were already climbing before the pandemic: 2020 data showed a 57% increase in the number of homeless people in Venice over the previous year — far greater than the increase in the city as a whole, which was 16.1%.

Fine job Democrats.



Venice described as 'constant emergency zone' as calls grow for action to address homelessness crisis

 

[kyzr]

What democrats are doing for CA they intend to do for the rest of the US.
No thank you.

 

[Concerned American]

With a homeless encampment stretching across much of the Venice Beach boardwalk and a spate of recent crimes alarming residents, the calls for city officials to take action have grown to a cacophony.

The number of tents on the beach has grown since 2020, when the pandemic hit, leaving millions jobless and creating more housing insecurity in a city already dealing with a homelessness crisis.

At last count, there were nearly 2,000 homeless people in Venice, according to a Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority count done in January 2020 that found more than 41,000 unhoused people citywide. This year’s count was skipped due to the pandemic, but experts expect those L.A. figures to continue climbing into 2023.

The numbers were already climbing before the pandemic: 2020 data showed a 57% increase in the number of homeless people in Venice over the previous year — far greater than the increase in the city as a whole, which was 16.1%.

Fine job Democrats.



Venice described as 'constant emergency zone' as calls grow for action to address homelessness crisis

I imagine all of those young professionals living in those over-priced Venice Beach digs are not too happy. HaHaHa--vote democrat.

 

[Polishprince]

Venice Beach used to be a classy city back in the day. They didn't put up with this kind of shit when natives like Sting and Hulk Hogan called the place home.

 

[Dekster]

I strongly encourage the construction of housing for the homeless....in your neighborhood, not in mine.

 

[Burgermeister]

They are nothing if not consistent in that shithole - LA OKs affordable housing project in heart of Venice Beach - https://www.courthousenews.com/la-oks-affordable-housing-project-in-heart-of-venice-beach/

(CN) — The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to approve a large affordable housing project straddling the northern opening of the Grand Canal in Venice Beach, one of the city's most iconic and expensive neighborhoods.

The 2.7-acre, $75 million Venice Dell Community project will be built on city-owned land, on the site of what is now a large, surface-level asphalt parking lot, and will comprise 136 units of housing. Half the units will be supportive housing for homeless residents of Venice and the rest will be for low-income residents, with half of that reserved for artists.

So will the homeless people now have to move to a more affluent area?