Venice Beach residents split over $4.8M bailout for bathrooms overrun by homeless: ‘Wasting taxpayer money'
The controversial price tag for constructing a single restroom facility on the boardwalk was an estimated $2 million in 2021. A more expensive proposal was put forward this year, but some say this federal lifeline wouldn't make a dent.
"You fix the bathroom without fixing the cause of it," O’Brien said."So, the bathroom is just gonna get destroyed again."Residents say the area is usually clean after the sanitation department’s weekly cleanups. But it can backslide to its former state just as fast due to the revolving door of homeless transients cycling in and out of the boardwalk.
Brian Averill, a member on the Venice Neighborhood Council, said the currently"unusable" bathrooms may need hired attendants to keep watch outside of them if they're going to be used by the 10 million people who visit the beach each year. "I don't know why we can't do a few things at one time," she said."I’m looking at it in the bigger focus that these were ill-designed bathrooms from the get go, [because] a first responder cannot get to a person in any kind of circumstance."to contain the homeless problem after the City of Los Angeles rolled back its restrictions on camping in public spaces to mitigate the spread of the virus. Those restrictions were put back into place until more than a year later.
New federal data reveals that despite California spending over $17 billion to fight homelessness in the last few years, its homeless population has grown.
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