July - Southwest LAPD CPAB

Vol 3
July 2015
No. 6
New Laws on Removing Homeless Camps
Harsher Than Reported
Mounting protests over the two new Los
Angeles city ordinances, one for sidewalks
and one for parks and beaches, that reduces
notice for clearing homeless camps from 72
to 24 hours, adopted by the City Council
June 23, have prompted Mayor Garcetti to
order city departments to withhold sweeps
until softening amendments are added.
The mayor chose to let the ordinances
become law without his signature. These
decisions unhappily are mostly cosmetic.
The amendments that are under consideration are minor: mainly to exempt from
seizure homeless persons’ identification
documents and prescription medications.
The most positive proposed amendment
is to eliminate the misdemeanor penalty, carried over from the previous law,
for failing to remove a camp on time.
This can still go to warrant as a violation and have essentially the same effect.
The two laws, new Municipal Code
Section 56.11 for sidewalks and Section 63.44 for parks and beaches, went
into effect July 18 without the mayor’s
signature. The Police Commission has
agreed to hold off enforcement until the
limited amendments are added and some
new training of officers has taken place.
The laws provide that bulky objects,
defined as anything that cannot fit into a 60
gallon garbage can with a closed lid, can be
seized and destroyed without notice. The
fine points in this appear to exempt tents
on sidewalks. These can be set up between
6:00 pm and 9:00 am, but can be seized if
they are there after 9:00 am. They cannot be
set up in parks or on beaches at any time.
There are additional provisions that
we have not seen reported in the press,
even in the L. A. Times, which has had the
most extensive coverage. For example,
“Personal Property placed in Public Areas
within ten feet of any operational and utilizable entrance, exit, driveway or loading
dock may be removed and impounded at
any time without prior notice.” This would
apply to the great majority of homeless on
the sidewalks of Downtown’s Skid Row,
mostly exempting only those camped
in alleys, under bridges, and on sides
of buildings where there no doorways.
One provision of the new law reads as
follows:
“Moving Personal Property to another
location in a Public Area or returning Personal Property to the same block on a daily
or regular basis shall not be considered to
be removing the Personal Property from
a Public Area. The City may remove and
impound such Stored Personal Property
after providing 24 hours written notice.”
This seems to be saying that the City
must at least follow the homeless person
around and give them a new 24 hours notice
every day to move on or have their possessions seized. It could mean that having
once given them the 24 hour notice, then
catching them again with anything on public
property makes them fair game for seizing
their stuff - including when they retrieve
their possessions from city storage and take
their things out onto the public city streets?
Which takes us to the city’s offer of
storage. Los Angeles has only one storage
facility for confiscated homeless property:
a 30,000 square foot warehouse called The
Bin next to Skid Row in Downtown. Rina
Palta on KPCC Radio July 1 quoted Alex
Continued on p. 4
AllenCo oil field, on 23rd Street, next
door to residences in North University
Park.
AllenCo Energy Applying
to Restart Oil Site that
Sickened Hundreds —
Residents Appeal to Pope
Francis to Have Church
Cancel Lease
The AllenCo oil field at 814 W. 23rd
Street, adjacent to Mount St. Mary’s College,
voluntarily shut down in November 2014
under threat of federal or city closure, after
vapors from poor maintenance had for years
sickened hundreds of local residents. The
company is now negotiating with the City
Attorney’s office to resolve a city lawsuit in
order to resume oil drilling at the site. The
residents have responded by sending Pope
Francis a video urging him to ask the Los
Angeles Catholic Archdiocese, which owns
the land, to revoke its lease with AllenCo. In
their favor, the Pope has spoken out strongly
in support of taking action to head off global
warming and to move away from fossil fuels.
AllenCo. took over the property from
another oil company in 2012, boosting oil
production 400%. Over the next two years
Continued on p. 4
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Homeless and Problem Property Report
Distributed monthly by email by the Southwest LAPD Community Police Advisory Board (CPAB).
Community-Police Advisory Boards were created by the Los Angeles Police Department in 1993 to give community members a vehicle to provide advice to and raise issues about crime and police-community relations with their local police stations.
Each of the 21 community police stations has its own CPAB chapter. Southwest CPAB is affiliated to
the Southwest Community Police Station, 1546 W. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90062.
Our aim is to identify homeless and problem property locations within Southwest LAPD’s area, roughly from
the 10 Freeway on the north to Vernon on the south, and from the Harbor Freeway on the east to La Cienega. We
log homeless camps, and locations such as blocked alleys, illegal businesses, and open junk storage. We accept
requests from residents to look into such problems. If there appears to be a definite violation we photograph it and
report it to the appropriate agency: Homeless outreach teams, Building and Safety, Housing, LAPD, Street Services, etc. Determination of the validity of this judgment is always made by the professional staffs of these city
agencies. We seek help for the homeless from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority and other organizations. If you want to receive these emails (or if you want to unsubscribe) drop us an email at the address below.
Homeless and Problem Property Committee chair: Leslie Evans
communications@southwestcpab.org 323-574-5586 www.southwestcpab.org
Southwest CPAB meets on the first Monday of each month, usually at 6:30 pm. Our meetings are open to the
public and you are welcome to attend. The location changes, so drop us an email to get an announcement. Our next
meeting date and place are also listed on our website, www.southwestcpab.org.
Southwest CPAB is a member of the South Los Angeles Homeless Coalition. This covers the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s Service Planning Area 6 (SPA6), which runs roughly from the 10 Freeway to Compton and
Paramount, and from Baldwin Village to the borders of Huntington Park, Vernon, and South Gate. The SPA6 Homeless Coalition is hosted by the Homeless Outreach Program/Integrated Care Systems at 5715 S. Broadway.
Cases Closed — July 2015
Chevy Class C RV Lic 3APR990. First
seen on west side of Hoover north of Adams
Blvd. June 17, 2015. Gone on July 18.n
Contents
Closed cases: p. 2-3
Current problem locations:
p. 5-7
Homeless locations/issues:
p. 8-18
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Hobart Blvd. north of Adams, LA 90018
A man was living on the sidewalk next to a strip mall here since sometime
in 2013. His camp was up against a construction barricade while a new building was under construction. The building was just completed. In this photo he
was still there next to the new driveway in June but was gone in early July.
North side of Washington Blvd. under west end of 10 Freeway bridge.
T h i s f a i r l y l a r g e c a m p h a s a p p e a r e d o n l y i n J u n e a n d w a s g o n e a g a i n i n m i d J u l y.
Alley east of Mont Clair Street, just south of Adams Blvd., LA 90018
This homeless camp was brought to our attention on Facebook
on the page of the West Adams Avenues block club, which has
been encouraging its members to submit photos of illegal dumping on Adams Blvd. in the stretch running east from Crenshaw.
There were several pictures of the camp, which I had not heard of
before. I went out there July 18 and took the photo at left above,
where I also saw that the Bureau of Sanitation had posted the
camp for removal with a July 21 deadline (photo at lower right).
Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority is notified prior to
the posting of a camp for removal and LAHSA sends out an
outreach team to offer services and shelter at a time when the
inhabitant of the camp knows that removal is imminent.-LEn
Some of the comments on Facebook believed this was
nothing more than a heap of illegal dumping and expressed
anger that inspectors had not acted more promptly to remove
it. Plainly, however, it was a human habitation. One comment suggested it might be a mixture. Even that is not very
likely, as all the materials to the right of the tarp dwelling
were brought there in shopping carts, more commonly a
homeless mode of transportation than that of illegal dumpers.
The camp was cleared on schedule on July 21. The photo
on the right above was posted to the West Adams Avenues
Facebook page by one of their contributors, showing the alley after the city cleanup. The manager of the page publicly
thanked Chief Street Services Investigator Tom Caraballo
for his help on this. My understanding of city policy is that
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AllenCo Oil - from p. 1
New Homeless Laws - from p. 1
Conedy, The Bin’s manager, as saying that
his facility is already 95% full. Most of
its storage is not seized belongings from
camps, but voluntary storage by homeless
people. So with an 85% increase in camps
over the last two years and new laws for
seizing homeless property it pretty well
appears that the city has made no plans
on where it plans to put any of this stuff.
UCLA law professor and homeless
specialist Gary Blasi told Rina Palta, “Having your property taken miles away - and
then being told you can go retrieve it, even
though of course, you have no vehicle
to put it in - that doesn’t really solve the
problem. . . . It’s not that we should be
trying to preserve people’s tents, blankets
and sleeping bags, it’s that we should be
helping them get into ordinary housing.”
The basic limitations and even futility
of the city’s core approach in the new laws
were inherent in the old ones. In June the
city carried out a six-day, $66,000 cleanup
of the extensive homeless camps that had
grown up on the embankments of the Arroyo
Seco between South Pasadena and Highland
Park. The July 11 L. A. Times reported,
“But while the encampments along the
concrete riverbed were cleared, none of
the displaced people were given housing,
advocates say. They simply scattered into
the nearby streets of Lincoln Heights and
Highland Park, or took to the hills of Elysian
Park. ‘They just moved them around,’ said
Monica Alcaraz, president of the Historic
Highland Park Neighborhood Council.”
What has residents and businesses upset
is the spread of homeless camps from Skid
Row out into the rest of the city in the last
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two years. Understandably nobody wants
homeless people tenting next to their home,
in the alley behind their house, on the bridge
their children cross to go to school, in front
of their store. And of course, police have a
part to play along with the Sanitation Department in cleaning up homeless camps.
But the answer is not to have the police
seize homeless people’s property and leave
them on the street. There will be just as
many homeless people there the next day,
and the $100 million the city spent last year
mainly doing this did not change anything.
At least 30% of the homeless are mentally
ill. All of them need housing. Those who
have curable addictions or who could be
employable cannot be cured or employed
while living on the streets. As other cities
have discovered, the first, and in the long
run, cheapest, solution, is housing first.
And for a good part of the homeless, that
means housing with mental health care and
case management for those who are initially resistant to leaving the street life.-LEn
251 complaints were filed with the South
Coast Air Quality Management District
(SCAQMD) of bad odors and people
getting sick, but AllenCo ignored the
complaints. The AQMD issued 15 citations but did little to enforce them until
Senator Barbara Boxer and City Attorney
Mike Feuer intervened, prompted by a
campaign by the Esperanza Community
Housing Corporation, which provides lowcost housing in the affected area. The Los
Angeles Times on July 16 commented that
Mike Feuer’s investigation “found that
AllenCo “willfully disregarded violation
notices issued by oversight agencies and
that regulators did not aggressively enforce
their numerous and repeated citations.”
Residents, especially children, suffered
nosebleeds, asthma attacks, and persistent
respiratory ailments. The AQMD on May 6,
2015, approved resumption of oil drilling at
the 23rd Street site, imposing 17 new conditions on the company, including that no
vapors may be vented into the atmosphere
at any time, and that the AQMD must be
notified within two hours of any complaint.
The AQMD is only one of the agencies that
must be satisfied before operations can resume.
AllenCo must convince the City Attorney that it will act differently than in
the past and that it has adequately updated
its equipment. It must also persuade representatives of the federal Environmental
Protection Agency - who were physically
sickened when they tried to inspect the
facility in November 2014. And they must
also pass inspection by the California State
Department of Conservation’s Division
of Oil, Gas & Geothermal Resources,
and the Los Angeles Fire Department.
AllenCo has invested in improvements, but these have not been tested or approved by outside agencies.
Eight local residents took part in the video to the Pope, most of whom had children
who had been sick many times during the
period AllenCo was running the oil site.n
Current Problem Locations
1691 W Adams Blvd., LA 9007 - Long-Vacant Gas Station
This place used to be a gas station.
It was bought by a series of anonymous
speculators, starting in 2007, who shut
down the station and took out permits to
remodel the little building into the kind of
minimart that many gas stations now have.
That was eight years ago and it was never
finished. The station has never reopened.
They got as far as installing a bank of
refrigerated coolers for cold drinks, but
mysteriously stopped construction there.
The tarps that line the construction fence
are now covered with graffiti, trash, and
ugly home-made signs. The owners have
no phone number or website and operate
out of a post office box. Most recently
they have allowed several of their permits
to expire, one for a central control system
and another for a handicapped bathroom.
Under city rules, the city’s Anti-Graffiti
Request System will not handle tagging on
construction tarps. That is the responsibility of the owner. So that is a Building and
Safety responsibility to chase them down.
There was a May 12, 2015 Building and
Safety complaint about the tarp graffiti.
The case is assigned to Inspector Antonio
Monsisvais, 323-789-2786, and was listed
as Under Investigation as of 7-19-2015.
What we do know about the ownership is this:
It was sold to Cay LLC on 11/5/2012 for
$685,000. This very anonymous company
mostly completed the minimart remodel
and then sold the business to Jc 2020 Corporation on 7/22/2014, for $2 million. Jc
2020 Corp is headed by Benjamin An,
who was a principal officer of the company that sold the place to Cay LLC in the
first place, Jnb Management. Most online
sources still list Cay LLC as the owner.
This eyesore property happens to be
located in the Adams-Normandie Historic Preservation Overlay Zone, one of
the city’s historic preservation districts
and we have been receiving complaints for
several years from residents in the several
neighborhood associations in the historic
district about the vacant gas station.n
3571 S Arlington Avenue, L.A. 90018
No major changes in the burned out
house at 3571 S. Arlington. As we reported
in May, Bridget Gordon, daughter of a
previous owner, has regained possession
of the property and is seeking funds to
restore it. The garage remains intact and
has been occupied by squatters who have
links to the 18th Street gang. They have
also been living in two RVs parked on
36th Street adjacent to this corner property. Ms. Gordon has put up new plywood
sealing the interior of the burned out
house and hiding the extensive 18th Street
gang graffiti that had covered the place.
LAPD Acting Senior Lead Officer Luis
Aceves made a sweep of the property on
June 3 and did not find anyone there. We
made site visits on June 22 and July 18. On
the first visit, the smaller, more beat up, RV
was missing, It was back and in worse shape
on July 18, joined on the south side of 36th
Street by a new battered RV we had not seen
before (see p. 16). We had filed a complaint
with Building and Safety on March 30 that
this is an abandoned building left open to
the public. It was assigned to Inspector Tim
Fong, 213-252-3959. It was listed as under
investigation as of May 23 but as of June 22
it is listed as closed and No Violation. We
believe that is in error because the garage
is open but will leave that to the determination of LAPD if they find that the gang
squatters still have access to the property.
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2509 S Raymond Ave, LA 90007
This small house has for some year collected junk, motorcycles, and inoperable
vehicles around it. In 2009 Building and
Safety had the owner remove several inoperable vehicles. A complaint we filed in January this year for storage of boxes of some
kind of liquid container on the porch was
ruled No Violation, The stack has grown
larger since then and we filed a new complaint to Building and Safety, July 13, 2015:
“Main issue is high stack of boxes that
look like they hold 5 gallon plastic containers of some liquid, as well as other junk filling the front porch. This has been there since
at least some time last year. Another stack
of these containers, more recent, is on the
north side of the house. There is more junk
along the north side of the house on both
sides of a gate, going toward the backyard.
“Secondarily on the north side of the
house are two partially disassembled motorcycles that amount to junk. If they are
going to be retained they should be stored
out of sight in the backyard, not out at the
sidewalk line. This location was ruled No
Violation for a previous complaint on this
issue, which I think was a debatable decision, but the amount of junk has grown by
more than a third since that complaint, especially on the north side of the house. This
liquid may also be a hazardous material.”
It has been assigned to Antonio Monsisvais, (323) 789-2786. It was listed as
Under Investigation as of July 17.n
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Long Vacant Burger Stand at 4319 S Hoover Street, LA 90037
Email sent July 24 to Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety Inspector
Jeffrey Corpuz, who is in charge of Case
#3582060 on the vacant burger stand at
4319 S Hoover Street, LA 90037. The
complaint was filed on 8/28/2014 and is
currently listed as Under Investigation.
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only on Sundays, with clothing for sale hung
all along both the Hoover and 43rd Place
sides. Today the Sunday sale was still going, on Friday, so it seems to be a permanent
outdoor emporium taking advantage of the
fact that the property is essentially deserted.
I have had complaints about this from the
local block club, who came to the last meeting of the Southwest LAPD Community
Police Advisory Board to specifically raise
complaints about outdoor vending and they
were especially unhappy about the blight
condition of the 4319 Hoover property.
Thanks for any action you can take to
get Mr. Dickens to abate these conditions.
Leslie Evans
Chair, Homeless and Problem Property
Committee, Southwest LAPD Community
Police Advisory Boardn
Inspector Corpuz,
I see you have an open case for Vacant Property Left Open to the Public on
the long-vacant burger stand at 4319 S.
Hoover Street, LA 90037. Attached are
four photos from today and one from June
12. The property was visibly open in May
from a missing fence upright on the Hoover
side. In June and today the entrance is not
readily visible, probably somewhere in the
far back on the north side, but the June
12 photo shows homeless bedding inside
the fence. Today’s photos shows a folded
over mattress and other gear stashed up
against the western rear fence behind the
steel shipping container (whose permits
ran out many years ago). So the owner,
Mr. Dickens, has, over a prolonged period
of time, simply been unable to keep the
transients out of this vacant property. It
has become more and more unsightly as he
has added more and more wood and corrugated steel, and chain-link patches to the
original wrought iron fence as the homeless
have broken through many many times.
The latest wrinkle, though I don’t know
if it is a Building and Safety issue, is that the
outside fence has become an ongoing swap
meet. For several months this took place
Homeless gear stored at west end of steel shipping container in yard behind
vacant burger stand. The white object is a folded over mattress, hidden between
the shipping container and the north side fence. The other black gear is against
the north fence.
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Homeless Locations and Issues
The large transient camps on Washington
Blvd. under the 10 Freeway bridge that
grew up in February have persisted. They
began on the north side of Washington
opposite Bonsallo Avenue, moved to the
south side after a cleanup of the north side
on March 26, and in June were solidly
staked out on both sides of Washington.
But the north side cleanups have been
more persistent and the large June camps
there were gone again on July 19. 
South side of Washington Blvd. under west end of 10 Freeway bridge.
South side of Washington Blvd. under east end of 10 Freeway bridge.
Transient Camps on Washington Blvd. under 10 Freeway at Bonsallo Ave.
Alley between 10 Fwy and 20th St, east of Normandie
This alley is just north of the 10 Freeway and runs east from
Normandie to Mariposa. The camp in the photo on the left is
at the west end of the alley. We first observed it in December
2013, and reported it to LA Homeless Services Authority. The
second camp (photo on right) appeared in September 2014 at
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the east end of the alley. The camp at the west end was gone
for a while in April when the occupant was hospitalized when
his bicycle was hit by a car, but he reestablished it in May.
The man at the east end says he has applications in for housing but
they had not come through as of June 15. No change in mid-July.n
Hoover, north and south
of Adams Blvd.
NEW. Fleetwood Flair Class C RV, Lic 481UMI, west
side of Hoover just north of Adams Blvd., 7/18/2015;
NEW. Class A coach. This is a nearly identical vehicle to another long-term RV also parked on the west side of Hoover north
of Adams Blvd. that we have not been including as we do not
know if that one is occupied. This one, Lic. 7LPG384, photoed on
7/18/2015, has the presumed owner stretched out on the sidewalk
at the rear along with a shopping cart. See closeup photo below.
Tioga Class C, Lic 7AIN346 on west side of Hoover between Adams Blvd. and 25th Street, 7/18/2015, first seen there Nov 5, 2014.
Itasca Class A motorhome, Lic 7FIZ777, first noticed
on east side of Hoover at 25th Street Nov 5, 2014. This
photo July 18, 2015 on west side of Hoover, same block.
Class A Pace Arrow motorhome, Lic 6ZKE624, west side
of Hoover at 24th Street 7/18/2015. First seen here on April 25.
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This Class A motorhome was parked on Hobart just north
of 27th Street on 9/28/2014. Lic. 3DXF691. Neighbors say
there were people living in it. In November it moved to Hoover
north of Adams, then in February to Adams west of Vermont.
Since May 22 we have found it parked on the east side of
Hoover just south of Adams Blvd., latest on July 18, 2015.
Cal Trans Bunker, eastbound off-ramp of the
10 Freeway at Vermont Ave.
We first were notified of the homeless camp in here in March
2014. At least two men beg from cars at this off-ramp, store gear
in the bunker, and evidently live there. Photo above was taken July
20, 2015. We have spoken to the man in the photo three times.
He is fairly hostile, refuses services except for actual housing.n
Class C Tioga, Lic 2CBK845. It was parked on Hoover
for a while in 2014, then in February of this year on 30th
Street at Walton. We had spoken to the owner a few times
and he is homeless and lives in the RV. After February it disappeared for several months, but reappeard in late May on
Hoover just south of Adams Blvd. Still there on July 18.n
End of Hoover RVs
Menlo Ave. just south of Adams Blvd.
Southwind Class A RV. First observed 12/3/2014. Disabled plates DP013HZ. Most recently July 21, 2015.n
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1655 W. Adams Blvd, LA 90007
In March 2014 one RV and two travel trailers were moved
onto this mostly empty lot (a small carriage house exists in
the back, while the main house was destroyed in a fire in the
early 1990s). The owner says they have been occupied by three
mentally ill veterans. In early June one of the travel trailers
was removed. Several weeks later it was replaced by a second
RV (second RV to the right in the photo). We don’t know if
the same person is living in it as had been in the travel trailer.
A lot of the junk that had been stored in the lot was cleared
out in July. Building and Safety has a case against the property for using it as a place to live, but very reasonably is not
pursuing it and we think everyone concerned understands that
it is better that these men have their RV and trailer homes,
safely behind a steel fence than to be out on the streets.
Eastbound off-ramp of the 10 Freeway at Western Avenue
This camp entrance from the dirt path running left from
the freeway, is wedged between the wall of shrubbery, which
stretches west along the freeway margin, and a wrought iron
fence covered with ivy that separates the Cal Trans property
from Frank’s Auto Center at 2137 S. Western. In a visit on
June 17 we found that the camp does not run very far along
the freeway siding, maybe not more than 20 or thirty feet
behind the shrubbery. Three men who probably live in the
camp were panhandling across the off-ramp as cars exited. A
return visit on July 19 confirmed that the camp is a small one.n
Orange Dr. north of Adams Blvd.
This is two blocks west of La Brea. This very beaten up old Class A RV may be used for homeless habitation, but its windows are not covered, which is unusual, It has fishing tackle in the front
window along with canned food. Lic 806FDM. The tag expired in January 2015. First seen June 22,
2015. On July 20 it had been moved onto the adjacent empty lot along with the graffitied truck.n
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Homeless on Crenshaw north of Adams around 10 Freeway
The most visible homeless camp on Crenshaw at the 10 Freeway,
up against the UHaul statiion on the west side of Crenshaw at the
east-bount off-ramp, was cleared in June and remained cleared in
July. There is still a man living and panhandling on the east side
by the west-bound off-ramp (photo at left above), and the camp
underneath the Crenshaw bridge over the 10 Freeway is still
there. The photo at right above is of the south side of the bridge
undergirding.n
Budlong Ave. near 27th Street
This Fleetwood Sprinter Mallard RV has parked regularly
on Budlong Ave around 28th or 29th Streetfor many months,
Lic 4KXN425, It was gone in June but returned in July.n
Alley west of Normandie Ave.
between 37th Place and 37th Drive
These homeless campers were first in our April report when
their camp was very small and on the sidewalk at the corner of
Normandie Avenue and 35th Street. When we visited on May
13 we found the camp had moved off the sidewalk and into the
east-west alley between Normandie and Halldale Avenues and
between 37th Place and 37th Drive. It is a two-person enterprise,
built and occupied by Mr. Ware, an artist, and his nephew Earl.
Here, not hemmed in by sidewalks and pedestrians, the two have
felt free to expand. We returned for a visit on June 16 and as before found Earl friendly and gracious. He has four dogs, one small
and three large, all in good condition. He said he would like to
get real housing. No one was there when we visited on July 24.n
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39th Street, just east of Flower Street, under Harbor Freeway Bridge
We first saw these camps on June 16. These photos are from a return visit on July 19. The top photo is the south
side of 39th Street, just east of Flower. The next below that on the left is the north side, just east of Flower. The
photo to the right below the top one is one block east on the south side of the street, just after a freeway off-ramp.n
Alley West of Menlo Ave.
between 43rd Street and
43rd. Place
This half-block-long alley running
west from Menlo Ave. between 43rd Street
and 43rd Place hides a fairly large homeless camp. The alley ends at the west in
a north south alley that blocks it from
continuing to the next street, Vermont
Avenue.We first noticed it on May 17.
This photo is from a visit on July 19.n
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40th Place at Flower Street, LA 90037
We had thought the tent in the upper left photo was the only
homeless dwelling here. We first listed it in our May 2015 report. In
a July 19 site visit we noticed that behind a low block wall to the left
of the tent separating a narrow walkway from the Harbor Freeway
wall there are at least three more homeless shelters. We did not see
any easy way to enter the walkway. The photos above are in clockwise order from the tent moving north along the narrow walkway.n
Flower St at 41st Street
Ford econoline Sportscruiser RV, Utah plates 582YGT. First seen
June 13, 2015, up against Harbor Freeway. This photo July 19.n
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42nd Street Bridge over Harbor Freeway,
north Side
42nd Street Bridge over Harbor Freeway,
south Side
A resident on Flower Street on May 17, adjacent to the 42nd Street bridge, told us that children who have to cross the bridge to and from school
are afraid of the homeless people camped on the bridge, and that neigbors believe that the campers deal drugs. We are unable to confirm the drug issue.n
43rd Street Bridge over Harbor Freeway,
north Side
The 43rd Street bridge was cleared in May and this
is the first camp to reappear on either side of 43rd Street
on the bridge since. Site visit was on July 19.n
Flower Street south of 42nd Street
Class A Pace Arrow RV parked on Flower Street just
south of 42nd Street on July 19. Lic. 1LTB088 We first saw
it on Nov 5, 2014, on Grand Ave on the east side of the
freeway, It usually parks on Flower south of 43rd Street. A
resident tells us it contains a single man with five dogs.n
Flower Street north of 43rd Street
Two tents up against the Harbor Freeway wall, The
tent on the right is taken down in this July 19 photo
but was up on June 13.n
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Flower Street north of
Vernon Avenue
Photos top and left, July 19, 2015.n
36th Street just west of Arlington
Winnebago Chieftain, Western Ave.
at 35th Place
First seen at beginning of June 2015, Lic 3EFB280. Still there
July 15.n
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This beat-up Class A coach was parked across the street from
3571 S. Arlington (see p. 5) on July 18. Inasmuch as homeless people associated with the 18th Street gang have been living in two other
RVs parked in this block and in the garage of this burnt and vacant
property it is likely that this RV is part of that group of transients.n
2300 block of west Jefferson Blvd., LA 90018
Plastic tarps covered stacks built by one homeless woman. A shopkeeper on this block told us she mostly lives in a local
park and that her goods have been confiscated before but she re-creates them. We have notified the outreach team of the
Homeless Outreach Program/Integrated Care System. We first saw this in May 2015 and it had expanded somewhat on visit
on June 22. We have received a complaint about this from at least one local resident. Photo is from site visit of July 18, 2015.n
Alley running south from Jefferson just east
of Crenshaw
There had been four or five homeless men living in this alley
last year, then one died and the camp dispersed. One man set up
a camp in May, who was still alone there on June 22. In a July
14 site visit a man and a woman were camping in the alley.n
Bus stop on south side of Jefferson Blvd.,
just east of Crenshaw
After the homeless camp in the alley just east of this bus stop broke
up last year, homeless people have tended to spend long periods or
camp on this bus bench in front of the gas station on the south east corner
of Jefferson and Crenshaw Boulevards. This photo is from July 14.n
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Leimert Park Plaza, LA 90008
Leimert Plaza Park is at the center of
the Leimert Park neighborhood. The small
park is bounded by 43rd Place on the north,
Vernon Avenue on the south, Crenshaw
Blvd. on the west, and Leimert Blvd. on
the east. The northern 20% of the park has
been taken over by homeless encampments
- tents, sleeping bags, blankets, cooking
pots. More ordinary life goes on as usual
at the southern end of the park, and the two
worlds seem to mostly ignore each other.n
4501 W Martin Luther
King Jr. Blvd.
This gear belongs to homeless man
David Odom. We visited the location first
on March 19. Odom keeps his belongings on an island for the MTA buses.n
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