Opinion: Lessons learned from the clearing of the Echo Park Lake homeless encampment
Defining success in public policy is a tricky business. One problem is that politicians achieve success in their careers by evading definitions.Yes, everyone will agree with that. Now the hard part.
So even though everybody’s nodding in agreement when a politician declares that we must solve the problem of homelessness, we’re not getting anywhere. After the City of Los Angeles cleared the Echo Park encampment last year, a process the UCLA report calls “the violent eviction of the unhoused community,” sanitation crews removed an accumulated 35.7 tons of solid waste, including 723.5 pounds of biological waste and 300 pounds of hazardous waste.
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