LA moves 200 homeless out of Venice Beach boardwalk

[LateToCult 41,827]

Officials say more than 200 homeless people were moved from the Venice Beach Boardwalk, once the site of a massive encampment that became the flashpoint of the homeless crisis in Los Angeles.

On Wednesday, KTLA found the boardwalk largely free of the tents that had quickly proliferated at the L.A. landmark over the past year.

This comes after the end of a six-week initiative to give those living in the encampment a pathway to permanent housing.

Of 211 People moved off the boardwalk, 185 are currently in interim housing, 22 were in hotel or motel rooms acquired through Project Roomkey and four were permanently housed, according to L.A. City Councilman Mike Bonin’s office.

So far, 116 of the homeless people have been matched to permanent housing resources, according to St. Joseph Center, which led the outreach effort on the boardwalk.

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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.)

source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/ktla.com/news/local-news/more-than-200-homeless-people-moved-from-venice-boardwalk-encampment-officials-say/amp/

[Jill 31,812]

Good for LA. I wonder when will they move Beverly Hillers to the Venice Beach boardwalk.

[PartySick 172,384]

I was prepared to be upset with that title but that's actually really uplifting.

[Knife 7,079]

I've read that many of the people who reside in homeless encampments don't want a path to temporary or permanent housing, and are perfectly content to live..in a tent. If that's the case, you have to wonder why, and if the solutions to aid the homeless are meeting their needs.

 

[LateToCult 41,827]

2 minutes ago, Knife said:

I've read that many of the people who reside in homeless encampments don't want a path to temporary or permanent housing, and are perfectly content to live..in a tent. If that's the case, you have to wonder why, and if the solutions to aid the homeless are meeting their needs.

 

That’s a very complicated question. I’ve met people who romanticize the idea of living among the homeless because of the “freedom” it would come with but that doesn’t make it any less dangerous. This past week a person at a homeless camp in Seattle was hit by a car trying to escape a mob of homeless people. 

[Squidward T 2,470]

My friend lives in LA and he told me there are tents lining the streets. 
 

[Economy 52,835]

13 minutes ago, Squidward T said:

My friend lives in LA and he told me there are tents lining the streets. 
 

Maybe try reading OP before commenting 

 

They said 200... they didnt say that was all of them... further down it also said at last count there was more than 2000 homeless there

 

So they moved like an estimated 10% only