WEEKLY CLEAN-UP: Homeless Living in Venice Restrooms
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 เม.ย. 2023
- The City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works, in collaboration with Clean Harbors Environmental Inc., carried out a cleanup operation of homeless encampments at the Venice Beach restrooms and on the Venice Beach Boardwalk on Friday, April 14, 2023. Sanitation workers were donned in white hazardous materials suits as part of the safety protocol for the cleanup. Many of the unhoused have been using the restrooms as living quarters, which has caused significant health and safety concerns for both the unhoused and the general public.
LAHSA (Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority) provided homeless outreach during the clean-up, and to ensure the safety of all involved, Los Angeles Park Rangers were present at the site throughout the cleanup operation. This weekly cleanup activity takes place every Friday in Venice and is intended to maintain the cleanliness and hygiene of the area.
There are two separate waste management teams with different roles working in collaboration. City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works, wearing the yellow safety vests, and Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc., wearing the orange safety vests. The Clean Harbor team goes in first to sort through the garbage to identify, collect, and segregate the hazardous waste items such as batteries, urine, surenges, etc. Once they finish collecting the Hazardous Waste, Los Angeles Public Works sanitation workers take over and collect the remaining garbage.
The City of Los Angeles has been actively addressing the issue of homelessness in the area, and the Venice Beach clean-up is just one part of their ongoing efforts. The clean-up not only helps to improve public health and safety but also helps to restore the restrooms to their intended use.
It is important to note that these clean-ups are not a solution to the larger issue of homelessness. The City of Los Angeles continues to work on implementing long-term solutions to address the root causes of homelessness and provide resources to those in need.
Overall, the clean-up of homeless encampments at Venice Beach is an important step in improving public health and safety, and providing much-needed resources and support to the unhoused individuals in the area. The City of Los Angeles remains committed to addressing the issue of homelessness in the area, and will continue to work towards long-term solutions.
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Seems like a good pressure washing would be a good idea before painting!
That is some nasty business at one of our nation's iconic beaches.
If I was a tourist, I would never go in one of those even if it was empty. What a sad fall for a once beautiful area.
You would shit your pants, because the next mouth is 1 kilometer
Hasn't been without homeless for decades.
USA !
USA !
Such BS
Elections Have consequences vote Democrat and this is what you get
It is certainly illegal for those who have no right to unilaterally occupy the place where all citizens who pay nearly half their salaries tax should use it. There's no reason to accuse you of being homeless, but there's no indulgence for illegality just because you're homeless, if you're free, you should respect the rights of citizens!
@@genemullen7618 Yup, turns out that reasonable policies attracts a lot of people who all wants to live there
It is unbelievable how naturally people leave their rubbish behind and then let others clear it away
in a single week, every week maybe for years, no less
They lazy as hell.
Like pigs in a pen
Filthy animals
Scum bags
The couple that’s being removed around 14 mins in….I’ve seen them taken out of a few spots already lol. Doesn’t seem to be working to keep the homeless away at all. What a never ending battle. Kudos to all the park rangers and sanitation workers trying to fight this issue.
Indian here. you guys need to use more authority to deal with them otherwise they will come back later and you'll end up providing free room service to them every week.
Call the mayor this is crap
@@deepakthirdreich I have been to India many of times. Those poor people sleep on the road. Not even a glass of water is given to them. Dont talk about our people here. Its 100 percent worse in India.
@@cherylkhoja917 Exactly my Point. We in india mostly have a Live and let live attitude and Govt has been letting the Homeless come and stay in the cities on the roads first then they find an empty Govt Land and make Brick homes without permissions , Govt gives basic neccesities like water, Electricity and after living for 10-15 years when the Govt tries to vacate them for some projects they demand high compensation.
Living in City is a privilage you work hard and pay you bills. I have grown up admiring USA and always wanted to come and become an american but after watching the state of your cities and your woke culture( Trans Man beating Women in sports, Defund the Police in BLM riots) i don't even want to visit.
India people get tax cuts in usa and every 5 yrs they put property in another name to avoid paying taxes
This is unbelievable I can't believe what this once beautiful beach has become this is so sad ☹️
so was the disease that put them there
You most likely voted for this so live with it and share your paycheck 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
honey @@1lorijb
Ok.. we're gonna need one guy at each stall to hold the door. One guy to turn the handle, one guy to sweep with a rake, one guy to paint, one guy to sanitize.. let's get 3 woman to hold a garbage can, 4 police, 3 park rangers, a few social workers,, we're gonna need 3 garbage trucks, followed by 4 security vans, five 4- wheelers, some police on horses, we need a few cops on bikes. That should do it.
They won't leave unless its a task force. No joke. You should have seen how bad it was during Covid. 10x homeless then.
@@carockstarla i did. I lived there. Finally just moved. Tweakers win. i don't feel very "liberal " about the issue especially for the drug addicts that won't get help.
😂😂😂😂😂😆😆👍
And no one to get these people some actual help or housing
They spend more money cleaning up after them than trying to solve the issue. Its like trying to kick water uphill.
Mate with the paint scraper is really putting his heart and soul into it.
WHAT A LAZY BASTARRD
They should reconfigure these restrooms, to those similar in movie theaters. Each night someone comes and make sure it’s clear and locks up.
Palisades Park locks all the doors with a big solid metal bar around 8pm every night, all they have to do is weld loops and slide a metal bar across and lock the bar in place.
Thats how it is in Hawaii.
They used to… and once these were pretty clean actually. Besides the typical public restroom graffiti and disgusting people not cleaning up here/there, but they were NOTHING like this👆
It appears that the cops and clean up crew prefer it to stay this way for the reasons of "Job Security".
Then they'll just shit on the ground
thank you for the video I have no desire to ever see your city
And now the world famous Venice Beach Bathroom drama, coming to you in living color every Friday. The nappy haired white girl at 12min is looked more ragged every week.
And she just sits there like a log each time and doesn't help her man pack up. lol
She needs medical help. She's sick (I mean literally physically/clinically). I wouldn't give her too much longer to live if she doesn't get medical attention and stop living in filth and drugs.
Is that worker video taping ?
One thing that might help is to make smaller bathrooms. Just a door and toilet with no extra room. Just big enough to stand or sit. With no way to lay down it might deter some.
The other thing that might help is FORCED mental health treatment. This is what is happening to society all over the country. “Progressivism”. We’ve put the clowns in charge of the circus and it is literally destroying our society. Enforce laws, rebuild our mental hlth institutions. Anyone who thinks this is an acceptable “choice” of a way to live is delusional. These are sick ppl, some criminals, all drug addicts or alcoholics but all in need of mental hlth treatment. There will be a reckoning of some sort eventually…probably some deadly disease will be bred by all of the filth.
In other words we can’t have nice things…. And they would make a home on the top of that commode!
@@zeebest1004but you don’t have nice things!
They all are handicap bathrooms. I thought the same thing.
And less windows.
The same people are kicked out every time and move back in when authorities leave. Why doesn't the city do something about them like lock up after a certain time? The one guy with the polka dot pants always has an attitude and acting annoyed even though he knows he isn't suppose to be there. These people have beach front property for free and it makes your beaches ugly.
You're telling a guy who pay's 4000 for a small apartment here. It's a revolving door.
My husband took us all to Venice Beach in 2009 when we went on vacation without realizing how bad it was. It was so sad because it was obvious it had seen much better days decades ago. I'll never go back.
Venice was OK - kind of crazy & Santa Monica had all the homeless people.
Then - they were pushed back to Venice and allowed to live on the beach or near it.
It will only get worse until the
Apocalypse.
May as well just say “house cleaning” when waking them up. That’s basically what this is
😆👍
It's a pretty good deal for our homeless neighbors, they get a night's sleep and aroma therapy at the same time.
LOL!😆
They probably smell worse than the bathroom 🤮🤮
Animals each 1 of them
That's a good one, both funny and gross at the same time....
They could basically remove the restrooms altogether since they're only being used as homeless shelters. Better yet, just call them homeless shelters. No sensible beach goer wants to use them anyway...
Ya, Turn them into homeless shelters. Make the homeless pick up bird poop and clean up the garbage. To stay in the little cabin. It would cost nothing. Much cheaper than paying 14 guys to mop a floor. The Sanitation department. lol.
They spent a fortune paying these lackey's to kick someone out of there home.
Poop on the street ?
No
It would be better to just pay someone to be in charge of letting people in and out of bathrooms than to constantly go thru that.
Brilliant idea. That's solid thinking. Solves the problem and creates a job.
It would be a lot cheaper to hire fewer guards. They wouldn't have to repaint every week.
Thought of that, but it would need to be a team of at least 2 people. They would need to be on guard 24/7. They would hold no weight unless they appeared to be law enforcement of some kind. Now multiply that by how many restroom units and it wouldn't be cost effective! On the contrary. But good thought!
Thanks for cleaning and repainting my room. I will be back later....
“Knock knock.”
“Who’s there?”
“Housekeeping.”
So is the fifteen minute cleaning period the only time these bathrooms are not occupied during the week? If you needed to use one of these bathrooms during the day, is there a 100% chance someone is sleeping there and you can't?
This is a good thing,respect to all those helping with the clean up.
Just bull doze that facility,no need to have so many in one block.
I said if before like so many others lock the restrooms up at 9 at night.People that are at the beach shouldn't have to go to a restaurant to use the bathroom.I know there homeless but who wants to live in a rest room,have to be on drugs that's why they won't let you in. C.M.
I wouldn't let you in either.
OMFG 🤯 I used to spend every afternoon for about 2hrs before sunset rollerblading on that exact area of the walk. What the hell happened? Where is everyone? 😳 That place used to be packed so full you had to watch very carefully when you were skating so you didn't run into someone. This is heart breaking 💔
People left, it's not safe or sanitary to visit. No one wants to take a chance on being attacked, only to have the attacker let off and the victim charged
Same !
I rollerbladed from Santa Monica to Hermosa Beach with my baby on the little Baby seat.
It was nice in 1997 - except
Santa Monica where I lived in a Rent Control apartment for less than $400 a month 10 blocks from the beach.
4000.00$ for a studio apartment or bathroom stall for free. Oh the choices we make!
Thanks for cleaning it up. Now they can move back in.
They need to do an enforced cleanup every 24 hours. If it’s too much trouble to stay there, they will make there mess elsewhere.
hope that doggie finds a better home.
hope that doggie finds a better home ,and the man no longer, what the Lord Jesus tells you, feed the man, not the dog.
Poor dog, he has no choice
I bet that area, is absolutely HOPPING with activity, shortly after dark & busy till early am.
Us that live here would NEVER walk down the Boardwalk after sunset. True story.
These people should be arrested!
California really needs a new Governor.
In a bad way!!!
Nothing will change.
@@thepostfk A Republican Gov would enforce the laws.
And it will still not get solved, remind you homelessness started when Trump was President.
Republican can't even uphold the laws they enforced without being indicted 3 times.
40 years ago I visited this place. I thought it was one of the coolest places to hang out. Wouldn't think that today. The scary part is how many of these people probably have diseases that can be possible passed onto the cleaners.
Probably have diseases? I can guarantee 90% do and I'm not talking diabetes or high cholesterol diseases. Typhus, a disease that was wiped out 100 + years ago, is back in LA and San Fran in the homeless areas.
Why aren't these restrooms locked at night?
Because they are ALREADY occupied & locked!
I really hate speaking ill of less fortunate, given some are drug addicts, but the city really needs to practice power washing after these homeless sweeps. No one that visits the beaches can use these facilities. And they should be wearing masks!
A million times yes
Excellent ideas
Yikes again these restrooms are not a hotel and it’s a shame that the homeless end up trashing the restrooms thinking it’s there hotel when it’s not it’s seems it’s a endless problem that’s keeps on going in California and that poor dog that dog should have an actual home.
Thank you !
They clean it for them and they return right after what a fucking shame good job city council
Liberals for ya
Homelessness will always be around.
The fact that reality is hitting the better neighborhoods is a good thing.
LA County needs to close Restrooms permanently. Thats better than have to go daily and run homeless out .they need to build big new mental health facilities to get people off the street and to help familys that have relative members that have mental heath issues. these facilities would get them help mental heath issues and medical help.
Bring back asylums!
I agree they aren't any use to the public. So get rid of them. Bathrooms
LA county could care less
Homeless doesn't have to mean filthy/nasty. This is horrific.
How do you know the people in there are the ones that did the graffiti, and how organised and clean would you be if you had to live on the streets? Go on. I’m genuinely interested. Since you seem to think your poo doesn’t stink I can assume you think you would perfectly polished and collated in that situation.
Uh the people cleaning this mess have jobs and aren’t living in the toilets maybe instead of loafing around and dreaming of success go become successful working somewhere ya know
I would never go to the beach if I lived in Venice. And for sure not use those restrooms! Nasty!🤢🤢🤢
Maybe a few tear gas canisters through the grates would help? No job but they can't even pick up their own trash with a can right outside the door. I want the job of standing around and watching.
Looks like they just move their junk outside, maid service comes in and cleans up and they are right back in before the paint dries. LOL
They should nock those down and build smaller ones that you can't sit on the floor in
What prevents these people from going right back in?? Now they'll have a clean place? All the money this takes could hire security and lock up after a certain time!!
Not a thing. Job security for the clean up crew.
This always looks like a battle to me, and every week I wonder which side is going to win. I wonder how history books will document these battles.
if I wrote the history book, it would be titled "The decades of political denial and placation".
That's just disgraceful. Put a monitor during the day and lock up at night.
Of course , no one ever concidered hiring 7/24 attendens to monitor, and control the keys.. it would be oppoosed by the massive sanitation dept.
It would be opposed by the HIC (homeless industrial complex)
That person would constantly be attacked by the homeless.
How much money is being thrown at this bathroom nonsense!? That is a lot of frigging employees/ pay 😅😅 WHAT A JOKE
CHOICES AMERICA✌️😇♥️🤍💙⚖️👋👍⭐️💜
lock the doors from the outside and walk away ... out of service ... come back in a week .. simple ..
Lol!!
This is not the same California that I moved to 25 years ago!
I think they should aresist them right away for living in bathroom
And take them to shelters
Lol yeah safe there
It would honestly be cheaper if they just get rid of all these slow cleaners and idiots with ipads and used that $ there paying them to build pop up shelters what a complete waste of resources and the other day when it took 100 cops and a Helicopter to take down 1 crazy guy wow just wow the world we live in back in the day all it would have taken is just 1 man.
I agree with u 💯
Incredible
They need to remove the doors from all public bathrooms and just have a curtain. I'm sick of homeless people ruining everything!
Put them in jail! Then you don't gotta worry about where they are sleeping.
Trespass them from all public restrooms
If this doesn't enrage you, well, I guess you're in bliss.
Saw off the bottoms and tops as done in England for outside public toilets. Go in over the top with hoses and flush them out.
“This is MADNESS!!”
Do they actually REPAINT the bathrooms every single week? Cant they just post a sign that reads "No interior decorating unless you are paying rent!" 😂
I'm sure they will abide by that rule. 😅😅
You actually think homeless abide by the rules..........i don't think posting a sign will do any good.
I thought it was good that one man cleared away his garbage himself
This is the saddest thing I have seen in a long time. 😢
Why don’t they lock the bathrooms after like 10pm? How do homeless people have so much stuff?? In the 90’s the town I lived in had some homeless. The most they had was a backpack and the clothes on their back. Hell it takes these people an hour to pack up all their crap.
Why are they cleaning these bathrooms once a week? We all know what to expect once you leave, it's the same repatition?
I really hope they change the toilet paper so others can use them!
Since they are public toilets, free of charge in one of the most crowded places in a dense city, i'd say these weekly clean-ups are in order (tax payers are not willing to pay up more money for this type of service, although they probably will have to either way, seeing how things are). And they (Venice beach or city-workers) probably have someone check the toilets once a day, but this is the whole shebang! I also thought about that toilet paper issue.. i actually think they only apply one for each room, and my guess is that they restack like once every 2 hours?
free house keeping for the homeless
beauty beaches around
i remember this restroom toilet , the iron doors were still smooth and polished
California is such a beautiful state. Gorgeous landscape, wonderful weather. Such a tragedy that so many people are treating the land as their own personal dumpster
As well as drug den, brothel and toilet.
did you wash or disinfect the restrooms??
Ive got an idea! Lock up all of these units and then just put one or two small portapotties there for beachgoers. They need to be small and solid structures no one can mess with. Beach goers will have to byotp.
That same woman and man are in every one of these..dragging garbage around like it's gold.
Us normal people do anything even close to that we get teket or jail but them no
I was there in mid 80s...it was a nightmare on Venice Beach...
I visited Venice beach in the early 80's, it was beautiful and had vendors etc. It was a nice beach and there were no homeless at that time living on the beach or in the restrooms. They'll only go back there at night again now that it's been repainted and cleaned out.
There’s so many warehouse in America one warehouse you can accommodate 200 maybe 300 homeless oh, they need a small place to feel secure and home
It's amazing how many people don't want to work and pay rent.. had rather be scum of the earth.. everyone has a choice what to do with your life.
It's amazing how videos like this bring out all the fucking 'experts' on why people are homeless
without ever getting to know said homeless people. Did you know that there are thousands of
people that are working two to three jobs and are living in a car, a shelter, or on the streets?
People want to work, but getting paid poverty wages is a big contributing part of this problem.
Now, go back to your little bubble where you believe so many people just don't want to work so they
can make you feel right in your abject stupidity
Sadly they will be back minutes after the clean up people leave. Nice job cleaning and painting. They are just waiting aren't they
Job security for the clean up crews
Homelessness is sad. But so many of them are just losers who made bad after bad decisions. I've worked hard for my whole life, but so many of these losers won't sweep a floor for a meal. They just see themselves as victims. Not all of them, but MANY of them.
No need to be polite. The truth is that the majority of them are losers. you guys need to be a bit more authority to deal with them otherwise they will come back later and you'll end up providing free room service to them every week.
Totally agreed with you, they should work like everybody else !
They deserve all they got
Losers? Many of the homeless are kids whose parents basically threw them away and the adults have nowhere else to go 😓 some compassion goes a long way, you lose your job or your house it could be you 😳
I never have seen that kind of rest room in US. It looks like a storage room
What will save money is build a huge building with lots of beds, and have shower and toilet facilities, so the homeless can sleep there, in return they have to keep it clean and tidy. but, doing this weekly cleaning gives people jobs so they don't end up homeless
Wow 😮, they do this every week? The saddest part, even above the cleanliness of the beach is that there is not one once of compassion for the displaced PEOPLE who are probably in those bathrooms so that they can sleep behind a locked door. We a so close to a dystopian society and some of us may soon not have a roof over our heads after the powers that be have their way on this earth. 😢
I THOUGHT THEY ARE BATHROOMS NOT BEDROOMS
😂😂
These restrooms has alot of space in them.
So you people must be real proud of yourselves, bravo, so now where will they go.
How often is this done? The floor should be power washed and did they clean the commodes?
Rangers should be on duty around the clock to stop them from setting up tents and all that crap they drag around. They steal shopping baskets just to load up . Homeless means you don’t carry a shelter and complete household.
I do appreciate the Sanitation, cleanup crew and Park Rangers for the work they do. It looked so much better after all those tents were removed.
I think those restrooms need to be smaller. They are a whole house worth of crap in there. Plus two people.
door stops are available at dollar stores for like a dollar. might wanna invest in some, to make your clean up easier lol
Our country has its priorities all messed up. We hurt good hard working productive people and we let drug addicts ruin properties and pose real threats.
yeah, we just "let" the drug addicts rule. Any suggestions?
watch the real time actions of those you vote for and foks that run your home town. it does not take much to give security and chem toilets for a safe space parking lot with daily cleanup.
maybe hurting good hard working productive people is what created them? do you have ANY perspective AT ALL?
@maryb4999 yeah jail or rehab
A lot of these people are mentally ill and can't help themselves, any suggestions on
what to do with them, complainer?
I wonder what all the dents on the outsides of those doors are from.
Look like bullet dents to me.
Here we go again . . . cleaning up the beach supports 😬🇺🇸😩
It’s good they do clean ups they should do the same to other parts of America
They need more than a spray bottle to clean these places, a firehose with antibacterial tossed in!
So wait….they spend all that time cleaning up etc….but it seems like the ones they just kicked out wait for them to get finished and then just go right back in? Why do they not lock these up at night…patrol the area….so this doesn’t continue to happen? It just seems like a never ending cycle to me?
Merry Maids here to clean your anode!
That poor dog @ 15:50 appeared to be in horrible condition.
Looked like half its jaw was hanging from its mouth
Use like a moving back wall hydraulic ram design to clear the bathroom every morning.
This reminds me of 69 th Street Terminal in Upper Darby, Delaware county, Pennsylvania when SEPTA employees clean up after the general public.😮😮
What ever did change to these once very nice beaches, it happened pretty quick.....