When is echo park lake opening

Written by Michael Juliano Wednesday May 19 Discover the best of the city, first. We already have this email. Try another? Latest news. We're trying to make the rules known, that after the park is closed. And in order for the public to continue to enjoy these parks, they're going to be asked to leave. Addressing the city's dire situation with homelessness, Shull said: "We have some very difficult challenges We need to find every solution possible to get them housed But there needs to be rules around that.

I want this department to be part of the solution Nancy Ochoa, a small business owner and lifelong resident of the Echo Park neighborhood, said she was glad to see the closure and believes protests were misplaced.

Ochoa said her brother once had to sleep in the park when he was struggling with drug addiction. But in recent years, the rising homelessness crisis led to permanent tents and structures taking up more public space.

Many unhoused people and advocates, however, say the police action to shut down the park was traumatizing and separated residents from their support network, making them more unsafe. Some also say the rooms on offer were a temporary fix that came with oppressive restrictions, such as a 7 p. Jessica Mendez has lived in the Echo Park neighborhood for 30 years. Reactions to the reopening have been mixed.

Connie Ballard lives in a senior apartment complex right across the street from the park. I take my hat off to him.

Thank you for bringing the park back. Cecilia Echo was one of them. We had a pantry. Officials say the fencing around the park will stay up for now, and that the curfew will be enforced by park rangers. On one night of protests, authorities said people were arrested for failing to disperse. In the preceding weeks and months, outreach workers had been able to get more than people living in the park into hotel rooms rented by the city under the Project Roomkey program, as well as other forms of interim housing.

How a commune-like encampment in Echo Park became a flashpoint in L. A homeless encampment at Echo Park Lake has become a symbolically fraught case study of the rights to public spaces. Several of the homeless participants spoke about the challenges of living in hotels with rules that governed when they could come and go and limited with whom they could interact.

Their speeches were initially interrupted by Kevin Paffrath, a recall candidate for governor, who wandered through the park with a posse who filmed him. We have no locks on our doors. We have to have somebody open the door for us. Not all were displeased with their accommodations. One previous park resident, Howard Ducksworth, 65, had been at a nearby church checking in with a social worker who is helping him get set up with a rental voucher. The downtown residents have lived in L.