Santa Monica Boulevard and Venice Bearch were like THE places to go to in the 80s and 90s. Just freaking unbelievable how thing could have changed so much so fast. Oh gawd, I feel like puking.
Met my wife there in the early 80's when I was in the Navy Pure paradise Blondes, weed, sunshine WTF happened?
Here in SF bay area I see the same thing happening in multiple cities even in SF & Oakland. The bay area has concerted effort to get rid of these encampments along with RVs parked in expensive neighborhoods. NIMBYs want to expel them from the bay area in general. The truth is California in general has become a place for millionaires. Its been that way for awhile now. Most of the laws passed by this state just wants to import rich people and tell poor people to GTFO.