VENICE, Calif.—“It’s like a game of whack-a-mole,” 30-year Venice resident Sean O’Brien told The Epoch Times. “They move one encampment and another pops up.” O’Brien is one of the many residents of the beachside neighborhood of Los Angeles who said they’ve become involved in a tussle with city officials in its handling of new homeless encampments that are reappearing after a widespread effort to clear the Boardwalk last summer failed to thoroughly solve the problem. Now, he says the latest encampment is across from the Abbot Kinney Memorial Branch Library, which developed after officials cleared out tents and placed 56 people into housing from Westchester Park in November 2021 as part of a collaboration with Councilmember Mike Bonin called the “Encampments to Homes” plan. Roughly 30 tents are pitched next to the city-owned library’s parking lot, with videos circulating on social media of homeless individuals openly using drugs in the …