They met on a cold night, both taking refuge in the waiting room at Union Station, then upgraded to a tent in the homeless camp on the banks of Echo Park Lake. March 20, 2021 “If you don’t ...

They met on a cold night, both taking refuge in the waiting room at Union Station, then upgraded to a tent in the homeless camp on the banks of Echo Park Lake. March 20, 2021 Over the last year ...

For months, Echo Park Lake ... and controversial — homeless encampment. The municipal park had become a kind of semiautonomous community, where hundreds of tent dwellers shared meals and ...

Under a veil of secrecy, Los Angeles city officials and homeless ... as possible from Echo Park Lake this week in advance of an expected sweep to remove more than 100 tents and fence the entire ...

“I know it’s hard for them, the homeless people,” Aguayo says. “I understand. But people didn’t feel safe.” The tents are now gone, ever since March 25 last year, when the City of LA closed Echo Park ...

A clearing of a homeless encampment in Los Angeles ... belongings as she is packing outside her tent next other tents at Echo Park Lake, March 25, 2021, in Los Angeles. Francine Orr/Los Angeles ...

They said they feel he's not been active enough in dealing with the issues of tent residents in ... earlier this morning at a homeless encampment at Echo Park Lake, which went ahead without ...

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ECHO PARK, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A tense situation remains at Echo Park Lake as the city ... that everyone living in tents must leave. Advocates have said the homeless were not given enough ...

Los Angeles city crews rolled in at 8 a.m. Friday and began gathering up tents and belongings at Echo Park Lake. Several members of the homeless community began blocking their efforts and chanting ...

Fencing contractors take down chain-link fencing around Echo Park Lake two years ... park even when the homeless encampment was around. While she appreciates that the tents no longer are around ...

Two years after hundreds of protesters and police officers clashed over the removal of a major homeless encampment in Echo Park Lake ... she felt safer after the tents were removed and the ...