Hollywood elite fight plans for homeless cabins in upmarket beach areas
Thousands of residents sign petition opposing plans to build emergency homeless shelters
23 May 2021 • 5:33pm
A homeless man pushes his cart of belongings along the streets of downtown Los Angeles, California
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Dating back to 1921, the Pacific Palisades has been home to intellectuals and Hollywood celebrities for decades.
Larry David, Ben Affleck and Arnold Schwarzenegger - who went on to become California’s governor - are among the stars who have made the town with a three-mile coastline their home.
More secluded than areas like Beverly Hills, the town - which has a population of just under 30,000 - is a haven of tranquility.
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In the struggle to help homeless people move off the street, service providers the entities that supply them food, guidance and other crucial forms of support are the ones on the front lines. Their staff are the outreach workers who go to encampments and underpasses, and who seek out people slumped on sidewalks in plain view, huddled in the brush out of sight or living in cars. It can take days, weeks, even months to earn the trust of homeless individuals inured to street life and suspicious of anyone who wants to move them to an unfamiliar locale. Even as the pandemic raged in the past year, outreach workers were the ones who never stopped toiling in the streets.
New East Hollywood government-run homeless encampment to offer emergency services, but it’s not cheap MORE This parking lot on Madison Avenue, off Beverly Boulevard, has been turned into a government-sanctioned homeless encampment that can accommodate about 120 people at a time in 12-foot by 12-foot spots. Photo courtesy of Urban Alchemy
Los Angeles has opened its first government-run homeless encampment on a quiet, commercial block beside the 101 freeway in East Hollywood. This comes one month after LA officials cleared what was one of the city’s largest encampments a makeshift community of nearly 200 tents, an outdoor food pantry and a shower stall that spanned the popular near-mile loop around Echo Park Lake just two miles away.