LOS ANGELES—Councilman Mike Bonin’s initiative began June 28 to offer a voluntary path to permanent housing for all people living in encampments along Ocean Front Walk in Venice.
St. Joseph Center outreach teams were scheduled to offer housing, shelter, and services to the people who live in the boardwalk encampments, which have grown amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Those who don’t accept housing would have to leave the area by a certain date, Bonin’s office said, but it wasn’t clear how that would be enforced.
