Crews began tearing down the fence surrounding Echo Park Lake Monday morning-- a campaign promise by Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez.
The office of Council member Soto-Martinez said providers and outreach workers will be at the park seven days a week and a team of unarmed responders will be available during evening hours if issues arise.
The council member said the office also plans to expand programing activities at the lake and promote cultural and economic opportunity by allowing street vendors back. "The homeless crisis all over America is horrible," said Valerie Zeller who has experienced being homeless.Zeller said the council office secured a tiny home for her. She plans to start a business selling clothes her pastor gave her.
"The park being open, it's a beautiful day. It's wonderful to see it not being fenced in," Zeller said. A report by the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy called the removal unhoused residents "a spectacular show of militarized power" and according to its analysis, found only 17 out of more than 180 people who were removed were placed in what they classify as housing.
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