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Originally Posted by badrunner
It really depends on your daily routine. You can go weeks without seeing a single homeless person in LA. Where I live and work it's not an issue. Most people commute from suburb to suburb in their cars. But if you live or work in the middle of the city or take public transit everyday you might run into it quite a bit. The difference in SF is that it's in closer proximity to nicer areas of the city. It would be like if Skid Row was transplanted to the westside or something.
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Some districts of westside L.A. have lots of homeless, often sleeping in cars and vans, not so much in sidewalk tents, although that happens too. Sometimes they camp right on the beach. Venice and Ocean Park have lots of homeless. Better to sleep on the beach than on skid row I suppose. Other parts on the westside have very few homeless. Beverly Hills for example seems to have few homeless. Apparently security and police somehow shoo them away. Is that legal??? In the Bay Area, apparently lots of homeless camp out in the hills, e.g. Santa Cruz Mountains and Oakland/Berkeley Hills. Same in L.A., where homeless camps are in the Santa Monica Mountains and Hollywood Hills.