Venice Beach is the site of one of the nation’s most aggressive efforts to help people out of tent-filled encampments and into housing while making its popular beach area more accessible to tourists and residents
VENICE, Calif.—This seaside neighborhood in Los Angeles, once a destination for bohemian artists and later home to tech giants and their affluent employees, has most recently becomeNow it is the site of one of the nation’s most aggressive efforts to help people out of tent-filled encampments and into housing while making its popular beach area more accessible to tourists and residents.
For the first time, all of the area’s approximately 200 homeless people are being offered at least six months of temporary housing with social services, along with vouchers to help them then move to a more permanent location. Local officials said their goal is to house every person living on the Venice Beach boardwalk, though they haven’t laid out consequences for those who won’t participate.
Backers say the effort could become a model for how Los Angeles and other cities can use billions in recently allocated state and federal funds to get homeless people permanently off the streets, rather than having police push them from one location to another. If the effort fails, it could be fodder for those pushing for law enforcement to address the issue more forcefully.
and then exploded during the Covid-19 pandemic, when city officials stopped enforcing anti-camping laws in line with guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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