City Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez plans to remove the fence around Echo Park, Los Angeles at the end of the month - a move that worries residents amid the city's homelessness crisis.
are up in arms about a Democratic city councilman's decision to remove a fence erected to prevent homeless encampments.
"We will take down the fence, and we will take painstaking care to do it right, with more transparency, so the city can see once and for all that criminalization and segregation don't solve homelessness,'" Soto-Martinez announced in a statement.But Echo Park residents told "It looks like the way it should be. It's a family park. And I think kids are feeling like they can come to a place and not worry that they might find needles in the playground," resident Joey larva said.
During the Echo Park cleanup, crews removed 723.5 pounds of biological waste and 300 pounds of hazardous waste.
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