Annie Powers, who was involved in writing the report, recalls a notable former Echo Park resident, Veronica, who was a “mother” to people on the streets around her. Veronica, whose story is introduced at the beginning of the report, was displaced from Glendale Boulevard by police after already having been removed from Echo Park.
“I think that the city is intimately aware of optics of sweeping someone who was displaced from Echo Park Lake … and that that is happening a year later,“ Powers said. “It's incredibly indicative of the way that this system works to just turn people through it rather than actually finding people solutions.”
The report contends that the city"staged a police invasion" to evict the unhoused community from the park and used the"ruse of housing" to justify the action. Councilmember Mitch O'Farrell calls those false claims. He said there was a three-month outreach process that led to transitional housing placements for"nearly 200 people who had been living in a 'dangerous, deadly environment.'"
Not shocking. These people don’t want housing especially if they have to conform to civilized norms. That’s why they live like they do.
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