A Democrat lawmaker in Los Angeles is proposing to dump the city’s growing homeless population at the iconic beaches on the Pacific Ocean.
Los Angeles City Council member Mike Bonin prompted outrage from local residents after proposing to shelter thousands of drug-addicted, disease-ridden vagrants along the beaches of the Los Angeles coastline.
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Breitbart.com reports: Touting what he calls an “everything in” approach to homelessness, Bonin posted his plan last week, which includes a motion to study a “temporary site for single-occupancy tiny homes or safe camping at the county-owned parking lot at Will Rogers State Beach” in Pacific Palisades; similar sites at Dockweiler Beach in Playa Del Rey and Fisheran’s Village in Marina Del Rey; and a “temporary site specifically for RV safe parking at the county-owned parking lot” at Dockweiler.
Bonin includes suggestions for several additional sites on the west side of Los Angeles. His motion does not address the environmental impact of homeless encampments on public beaches, including sewage, drug use, crime, or other problems.
The county’s beaches have been one of the few refuges for local residents during the coronavirus pandemic, when other recreation sites were closed or restricted. The city council used public recreation centers as temporary homeless shelters.
Many local residents were furious. One commented on the NextDoor website:
I don’t understand why they are trashing our city’s infrastructure and the lives of tax paying citizens?! Bonins proposal sounds so crazy and ridiculous! There is a lot of cheap empty land just outside of LA where tiny homes and homeless communities can be concentrated and all the needed help centralized and provided. It’s cheaper, less controversial and gives them a goal to return to the community once cleaned up and able and willing to live a normal life.
Others noted that there already are homeless people who sleep on the county’s beaches, and criticized those who objected to Bonin’s effort to address the problem.
The homeless population has been rising rapidly in Los Angeles in recent years, thanks to the opioid epidemic; the high cost of housing; and the attraction of local weather and public services to homeless people from other parts of the country.
The homeless population in L.A. had risen by 14% through 2020, to over 41,000; the county experienced a rise of 13%, to over 66,000 people. No homeless count was undertaken in 2021 due to health risks during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A Change.org petition opposing Bonin’s beach homeless proposal had surpassed 4,500 signatories as of Monday afternoon.
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They need to be housed ,washed fed clothes and retrained .It needs to be done as the first priority if any government that claims ” sin God we Trust ” There are tonnes of empty unused churches ,monasteries old convents sitting basically as wasted space Theres empty old mental.hospitals and even orphanages as well as absolutely mobs if empty office blocks .All over the planet
IN GOD WE TRUST . I typed
The Dems need to send back their Illegal voting blocks to their home countries, move the homeless AMERICANS back into Houses and give them the benefits of the Illegal criminals crossing our border.