Cleaning Up Our Business Corridors
Last week, we began cleaning up our business corridors. Main Street between Compton Blvd & Rosecrans and Spring & Lennon were to two locations which were cleared out. With the help of LASD HOST team, LAHSA and HOPICS, anyone living in these locations were offered services, resources and housing.
With the assistance from Compton Sheriff Parking Enforcement, nonworking, abandoned vehicles were removed from the area. As a reminder, anyone living in a vehicle cannot be towed or removed from a public street due to COVID restrictions. Our area is struggling with the issues created from these vehicles. Vehicles blocking fire hydrants has created a safety risk for all of us. Unfortunately, there is very little that can be done to remove them.
Extraordinary Efforts Are Bringing Every Available Resource to Our Unincorporated LA County Areas…
One month ago, we reached out to every homeless outreach service provider in the South Bay to provide assistance with the 65+ children living in the RV’s along the Broadway Corridor. That initial outreach brought resources from the City of Los Angeles, City of Gardena and outside area Service Providers. This was the first time a joint outreach had been attempted in the Unincorporated LA County Areas of East Gardena, West Rancho Dominguez, Willowbrook and Compton.
Agencies work within their Service Planning Areas (also referred to as SPA’s). These areas have very specific boundaries and often times, the areas are serviced by different agencies. As an example, Figueroa is the dividing line between SPA 6 & SPA 8. When an unhoused individual simply crosses from one side of the street to the other, they become part of the new area. In the past, this has created a black hole for the homeless. Now, agencies are working more closely to ensure this is no longer happening.