New Los Angeles councilmember will remove fence put up to discourage homeless encampments at Echo Park Lake.
A chain-link fence surrounding Echo Park Lake that has been criticized by homeless activists will be removed, Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez announced on Thursday, Feb. 2.
“We will take down the fence, and we will take painstaking care to do it right, with more transparency, so the city can see once and for all that criminalization and segregation don’t solve homelessness,” Soto-Martinez said in a statement.The fence removal effort on March 25, 2021 was met with large protests, in which hundreds of police officers descended on Echo Park and arrested about 180 people, including journalists.
Soto-Martinez criticized his city council predecessor, Mitch O’Farrell — who he ousted from office last November — for what Soto-Martinez called a “violent displacement of unhoused individuals and peaceful protesters at Echo Park Lake.” Soto-Martinez said the fence was installed as part of “the final act of this rushed and failed plan” to close off the park to the community.
O’Farrell, who came under fire from activists during and after the clearing of the park’s encampment, previously championed the effort as “a very successful housing operation.”
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