“Residents are seeing homeless in the alleys, [there’s] dumpster fires, they’re cooking drugs, cooking meth … Individuals are defecating, shooting up heroin … It’s a matter of will from the city.” Siyamak sits down with John Alley, real estate owner and co founder of The Santa Monica Coalition. Today, Mr. Alley explains why this coalition exists and…

“Unbelievable stuff going on—the amount of trash. There are hazardous materials, [and] burned-out carcasses of motor homes are all over the place.” “Nine thousand gallons [of raw sewage] a month are going into the wastewater system. That’s the storm-drain system—not the sewers. The storm drain carries it straight to Santa Monica Bay.” Siyamak sits down…

“It was so nice before. It’s really all those things that you pictured in the movies and pictures. It’s not that now, it’s nothing like that. It’s the complete actually opposite of that. And it’s very sad.” Siyamak sits down with Matt Wilson, a videographer and resident from Santa Monica. He shares with us his…