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Craven LA officials just surrendered on homelessness

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Only Los Angeles could spend billions fighting homelessness, watch tents swallow sidewalks and parks, and then decide the city has been too aggressive keeping people from camping.

That is what the Los Angeles City Council did this week.

By a 10-3 vote, council members stripped anti-camping protections from a dozen locations. Parks. A senior center. Gone.

This is not compassion.

Councilman Hugo Soto-Martínez, the socialist who pushed the rollback, says enforcing the anti-camping law just moves homeless people from block to block instead of housing them.

Fine. Then where do they go?

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Not wherever they want.

Public parks belong to the public. Sidewalks belong to pedestrians. Senior centers belong to seniors. Being homeless doesn’t grant a permanent claim on public property.

Take Barnsdall Art Park, home to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House — Los Angeles’ only UNESCO World Heritage site. 

Before anti-camping restrictions went into effect there, the park battled fires, vandalism and blocked pedestrian access, according to the Barnsdall Art Park Foundation, which........

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