Over the last several years, because of the growing numbers and Los
Angeles’s very suburban nature, the city has effectively suburbanized
Skid Row, turning a concentrated urban condition into sprawl by
exporting the homeless even to posh ZIP codes normally immunized by
distance. In 2017, the Skirball Fire, which started along the 405
Freeway at a homeless encampment in the Sepulveda Pass, approached the
mansions of Bel Air and Brentwood, landing the issue at the threshold of
gated estates. Property owners in other parts of the city have gated
their driveways to keep homeless from using the seclusion of the
shrubbery. In what would have been an unthinkable event just a few years
ago, the homeless are pitching tents on patches of public green space in
Hancock Park, opting for a landscaped suburban setting. And, at the
heart of our city government in Civic Center, Kathryn Barger, the
County’s sole Republican supervisor, who has championed help for the
homeless, was simply walking down the street when she was chased by a
mentally ill homeless person wielding a machete.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-constituency-of-the-powerless-homeless-in-los-angeles/
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