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1 week ago | citywatchla.com | Dick Platkin

PLANNING WATCH -   Are your lying eyes still deceiving you? Do you see vacancy signs on unrented apartments and houses in your neighborhood, yet you are repeatedly told that Los Angeles has so much homelessness and overcrowding because of a housing shortage?   No, your eyes are not deceiving you; those vacancy signs are for real, and the claims of a general housing shortage are fabricated.

1 week ago | citywatchla.com | Nick Antonicello

HOMELESSNESS IN VENICE - The "two steps forward, one step behind," approach to the homelessness dilemma on the streets of Venice remains frustrating for residents just blocks from the beach as we enter another summer & tourist season.   The photos here unfortunately display the depth of the crisis as once the area is cleaned and clear, a whole new wave of tents, structures and vehicles bounce back to the area around the post office and Windward Plaza.

1 week ago | citywatchla.com | Nick Antonicello

LA 2028 - Sean Silva, the Venice Deputy for Councilwoman Traci Park (CD-11) announced this evening that Venice will host the triathlon during the 2028 Summer Olympics during his presentation at the monthly board meeting of the VNC (Venice Neighborhood Council).

1 week ago | citywatchla.com | Richard Lee Abrams

THE VIEW FROM HERE - When Angelenos allow craven political leaders to publicly place their own petty careers ahead of honesty, integrity, and the common welfare, we will reap what we sow. We need not rehash the decades of corruption to prove once again that is Los Angeles is corrupt. The main themes of the 2022 Mayoral Campaign between Karen Bass and Rick Carson were rampant corruptionism and the homeless crisis which corruption has brought upon Los Angeles.

1 week ago | citywatchla.com | Tim Deegan

DEEGAN ON LA—City Hall has tried to remedy it. So has Federal Judge David O. Carter. Before them, for decades, less high-profile attempts have been made to solve “it”. “It”, the homeless reality, continues to grow out of control. Our unsheltered neighbors, the kind-hearted epithet used by some to describe the masses of homeless sheltering on the city’s sidewalks, deserve far better service and treatment than they have been getting.