Anyone near Bellevue Avenue in Echo Park or Riverside Drive in Silver Lake is familiar with the sight of people sleeping and living out of their cars, vans and RVs. It's illegal to do so, under city law. But that might change under a proposed ordinance that would permit people to legally sleep in their vehicles over night in designated zones. More details on Curbed LA.Photo: Curbed LA
3 comments:
ehhhh I dunno if i support that
This seems to be a very reasonable idea. A while back I noticed that the city had put up "no parking from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m." signs along sections of Riverside Drive as well as Allesandro. I wondered where the city thought the people sleeping in their vehicles were supposed to go. Many of the postings were along stetches of the roads where there was no housing. I can well understand that people so lucky to have a house or apartment may not want a nighttime sleeping community along their sidewalks. To me, however, it seemed very uncaring of the city to drive off people who had found a relatively out-of-the way place to park for the night.
Congratulations on your blog by the way. It's excellent.
I'm not sure I can get behind that either. I'd rather see the people who sleep in their cars find a city-supported shelter since that seems like a healthier alternative.
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