The Venice waterfront mansion district of Los Angeles has now become one with the homeless tent.
On Sunday, star Paul Hogan was photographed by the media with a note pinned to the front of his $3.5 million mansion. It read, “This is my house, not yours. “
The Hogan residence is in what was once a beachside suburb of Venice full of the wealthy elite, but a sudden increase in homelessness there has led to a terrible crime wave.
The world-famous beach community is 16 miles from downtown Los Angeles and has traditionally been a major tourist attraction in the California city; however, the palm trees and promenade are now overshadowed by hundreds of tents.
Hogan and his son Chance have allegedly been trapped in their mansion for months amid a recent wave of crime and homelessness in the area.
Los Angeles has been ravaged by the homeless crisis, with the number of homeless people steadily rising from about 40,000 in 2011 to about 66,000 at the latest count in January 2020.
“It’s my house, not yours. “
Residents around the famous Venice Boardwalk are demanding action from authorities, saying it has become a large, “dangerous” homeless encampment with a spate of violent incidents.
A man survived the shooting on April 28 and a fire recently broke out at a camp on Ocean Front Walk.
Hogan, who grew up in Sydney’s western suburb of Granville, moved permanently to the United States in 2005, but in recent days he had publicly expressed his desire to move back to Australia, which had also sparked a heated debate online.
Hogan’s neighbor Tyler Proctor, a local politician, recently told Women’s Journal magazine: Hogan lives in a hell on earth, and his house is like a fortress, which it needs to be. I understand why he wants to move.
In an interview with Sunrise magazine last week, a grim-faced Hogan spoke of his miserable life in crime-ridden Los Angeles during the coronavirus pandemic.
He revealed that he was “desperate” to return to Australia and leave his life in the United States behind. I’m very homesick.
When asked how he was coping with the recent crime wave in Los Angeles, Paul simply said he was ‘not going anywhere’.
I’m bored at home, and once I can get on a plane without being cooped up in a hotel for two weeks, I’ll go back home,’ he said.
Hogan has been married three times, twice to Noelene Edwards, whom the two met while acting together in “Crocodile Dundee,” and they divorced in 2014, and he has five children, most recently to former actress Linda Kozlowski.
The homeless problem is most apparent in downtown Los Angeles, where hundreds of people live in makeshift shacks that line entire blocks near the infamous “Vagabond Street.
Tents often appear on the sidewalks outside City Hall, and camps are increasingly found under freeway overpasses in the suburbs.
Meanwhile, residents of Los Angeles’ Venice Beach say soaring crime rates and an exploding homeless population have made life in the elite beachfront community unbearable, making it a “dangerous” encampment.
The “catastrophic” growth of homelessness in Los Angeles has led to hundreds of tents lining the beach’s famous boardwalk.
Thousands of Los Angeles residents are unhappy with plans to house the homeless in tents and makeshift cabins near the city’s popular beaches and parks. Homeless encampments lined the Venice Beach bike path.
Nearby businesses have been forced to close, and longtime residents are afraid to leave their homes after dark after violent attacks and intimidation. Last week, Councilman Mike Bonin (D) summarized a motion to add shelters in areas such as LAX, Marina del Rey and Pacific Palisades.
Many of these areas are affluent communities, so more than 19,000 people have signed a petition calling for a halt to these plans.
The petition claims that the proposed camps are not a solution to homelessness and will bring problems such as drugs, mental illness, crime and danger into the communities where the tent cities are located.
Yet just as everyone else was opposing it, Arcadia, known as a wealthy Chinese neighborhood, actually came forward and the city’s city council came up with the best location on the hill and water to build the Tiny home project. Supporters of the project believe that it will bring together the homeless people on the streets of Arcadia so as not to affect the lives of the residents. It would also allow them to receive government funding.
Of course, the Chinese in the WeChat group are very unhappy about this, living in such an expensive neighborhood and “inviting wolves into their homes”. It is already a fact that homeless people are bringing drugs, violence, sexual assault and other crimes everywhere.
Some communities have already begun to express their discontent with this decision.
(Over the weekend, Chinese have been protesting in front of Arcadia City Hall)
This operation is also really living to see! As of now, however, there is no final word on the issue of homeless resettlement, and we will continue to monitor developments in this matter.
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