A new shelter has opened in Hollywood, sweeping 72 people off the aging entertainment district’s sidewalks. But the opening has triggered a crackdown on street camps that advocates warn is criminalizing homeless people.
Daniel Gomer McMillan, 46, with his dog, Pushoe, at the new, 72-bed homeless shelter in Hollywood. The shelter on Schrader Boulevard is the second to open under Mayor Eric Garcetti's"A Bridge Home" program.
But some advocates worry that the accompanying crackdown in enforcement will drive people away from services. Hollywood’s homeless community is particularly vulnerable, with former foster children who aged out of the system, gay and transgender men and women, and older people with disabilities and mental and substance abuse disorders.
“Put yourself in their shoes,” he said of homeless people. “You don’t have proper food or sleep, and there’s a lot of sickness out in the streets. And you’re just telling them to take down their tents.” At daybreak on April 8, authorities launched the street cleanup in Hollywood with what they called “soft enforcement.”
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