Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti restored a pre-pandemic restriction of homeless encampments in public areas after the city council voted 13-2 to approve the ordinance. Councilmembers Mike Bonin and Nithya Raman were the two dissenting votes. The ordinance, restored during a July 28 council meeting, bans the homeless from “sitting, lying, or sleeping or storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property” in the public right-of-way; this includes spaces within 500 feet of schools, parks and libraries, 500 feet from an overpass, freeway ramp, tunnel, bridge, or subway, and 5 feet from building entrances. It also gives city council members the ability to ban encampments in parts of their districts. “For them to continue to allow someone to live in an environment without running water, without toilets without trash service, when we know that the life expense expectancy for those on the street is 20 years less, when we know they’re much more likely to be a victim of violent crime … How is it …
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