Newly elected Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Councilwoman Traci Park announced a homeless encampment cleanup in Venice Jan. 4 amid California’s stormy weather.
Bass said she and Park, who represents the Westside, conducted outreach with homeless individuals in the area that morning. Sanitation trucks could be seen in the neighborhood cleaning up trash and abandoned belongings in the days following the announcement.
The move is a part of the Inside Safe initiative recently launched by Bass, which seeks to temporarily place homeless individuals living in encampments into hotels and motels. The initiative does not include enforcement of the city’s public encampment ban, so if the individuals deny resources, they will not be forced to move….