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LA's Battle for Venice Beach: Homeless Surge Puts Hollywood's Progressive Ideals to the Test

by Scott Johnson and Peter Kiefer     |     January 11, 2019, 6:00am PST

With swelling transient encampments abutting seven-figure homes, the beachside enclave has emerged as a flashpoint for the inequality shaping Los Angeles — and a real-world test case for the liberal ideology of the area’s showbiz residents.

After the first attack, Randy Osborn figured it was just his turn. Tire slashings in his east Venice Beach neighborhood had become commonplace. But when his vintage Land Rover was hit a sixth time in the course of a few months, Osborn, who runs a small virtual reality company and has lived in Venice for seven years, began to worry he was being singled out.

"It may have been random, but it sure felt targeted and concentrated," says Osborn, who now protects his tires each night with a jury-rigged plywood-and-chain contraption that has so far deterred the assailants. Every time he takes his family out of town, he worries about his house being robbed. "It's not a very fun way to live," he says. A lot of residents within Osborn's 15-block area just east of Lincoln Boulevard — where actor Viggo Mortensen owns a home and director Jon Favreau is opening a production office — have similar stories. And though they can't say for sure, Osborn and others suspect the crime is tied to several homeless encampments that have sprung up nearby in the past 15 months.  .  .  .

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/las-homeless-surge-puts-hollywoods-progressive-ideals-test-1174599




Very good article chock full of learning moments about human nature.  From Venice residents wondering why they should have to carry the burden of building housing for the homeless (just like top wage earners carrying the burden of funding government) to businesses erecting sidewalk planters without securing the very permits they lobbied for, this is a spectacular display of liberals having to deal with the problems their progressive views created.
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/las-homeless-surge-puts-hollywoods-progressive-ideals-test-1174599

LA's Battle for Venice Beach: Homeless Surge Puts Hollywood's Progressive Ideals to the Test
January 11, 2019
Scott Johnson and Peter Kiefer

With swelling transient encampments abutting seven-figure homes, the beachside enclave has emerged as a flashpoint for the inequality shaping Los Angeles — and a real-world test case for the liberal ideology of the area’s showbiz residents.
After the first attack, Randy Osborn figured it was just his turn. Tire slashings in his east Venice Beach neighborhood had become commonplace. But when his vintage Land Rover was hit a sixth time in the course of a few months, Osborn, who runs a small virtual reality company and has lived in Venice for seven years, began to worry he was being singled out.

"It may have been random, but it sure felt targeted and concentrated," says Osborn, who now protects his tires each night with a jury-rigged plywood-and-chain contraption that has so far deterred the assailants. Every time he takes his family out of town, he worries about his house being robbed. "It's not a very fun way to live," he says. A lot of residents within Osborn's 15-block area just east of Lincoln Boulevard — where actor Viggo Mortensen owns a home and director Jon Favreau is opening a production office — have similar stories. And though they can't say for sure, Osborn and others suspect the crime is tied to several homeless encampments that have sprung up nearby in the past 15 months.

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Couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of people.

Can't wait to hear the shrieks of outrage as their property values take a dump.
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2/3 of the "homeless" are addicts/alcoholics-mentally ill.

Many choose to e homeless, since the options given to them have unacceptable terms; curfew, stopping use of drugs/alcohol etc.


Politically California "conservatives" and liberals alike, believe these people should have "help," soprettty much any day a homeless drug addict in Vigo Mortenssen's alley can get help.


The cop on the beat wants him gone, Vigo wants himgone. But he isn't going for the "help," but instead a few blocks away to a nicer alley or park.

In nearby once more conservative Orange County, a cop will answer "it isn't against the law," to be homeless.
citation misdemeanrs.
"Our hands are tied. Voters legalized drugs, made many crimes, mere citation type misdemeanors."

Coming to your staate, city, suburb, etc.

An Orange County let authrities clean up a huge encampment, providing they gave the residents help; in the form of motel rent and treatment etc.


Most motel owners that tookpart, won't do so next time since the addicts trashed the places.

Articles in the OC Register and Lost Angeles Times, followed the results.



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Most motel owners that tookpart, won't do so next time since the addicts trashed the places.



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I can't believe ANY of them fell for that nonsense.
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