A plan to turn a big parking lot on Pacific Avenue into low-cost and transitional housing, with artist space and retail turns Venice into a political war zone, writes columnist AbcarianLAT.
, and allege it is being promulgated by “powerful special interests in the social services sector.” This was the exact wording in an email urging Venice residents to vote for a Fight Back Venice-approved slate of neighborhood council candidates opposed to various affordable housing and shelter projects. The community, said the mailer, needs a “wartime Venice Neighborhood Council.
As wooden beach bungalows on narrow streets are replaced with gated mega-mansions, and the region’s only historically black beach neighborhood — Oakwood — is increasingly gentrified, making a haven for affordable housing, low-income artists’ studios and ground-floor retail is the only hope we have of keeping Venice’s diverse character intact.Encampments spring up under freeway overpasses, on sidewalks, anywhere a tent can be pitched or a bed roll unfurled.
And yet, when a 154-bed homeless shelter was proposed for an abandoned bus yard on the north side of Venice, on Main Street just below the Santa Monica border, neighbors rose up in anger. A lawsuit has frozen the project, which is part of the mayor’s vow to put at least one new shelter in each of the city’s 15 council district.
I will never understand why the progressives of this famously liberal, famously permissive enclave refuse to be part of a solution to the seemingly intractable problem of homelessness.
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