HOMELESS ENCAMPMENT CLEARED: The 'Casitas community' was given a week's notice before Caltrans crews arrived this morning to clear the area and clean it up.
There were mixed emotions in Atwater Village Thursday as Caltrans crews cleaned up a homeless encampment under the 2 Freeway.
"It's heartbreaking," said Grace of Streetwatch LA."Sometimes I get really emotional because this people's entire, like, this is all they have.""Yes, about time, thank you!" a resident named Albert cheered."I've been here 58 years and this has been going on five years now. They have fires, every weekend they have a fire under the bridge, it's going to fall down soon.
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