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Closure of Echo Park Lake meant unhoused residents there had to leave. Where are they now?
The City of LA fenced off Echo Park Lake more than a week ago, forcing roughly 200 unhoused people living there to leave. For several days, activists protested the city’s move to clear out the park, and even faced off against police.
By Steve Chiotakis • • 25m ListenThe City of LA fenced off Echo Park Lake more than a week ago, forcing roughly 200 unhoused people living there to leave. For several days, activists protested the city’s move to clear out the park, and even faced off against police.
City and county officials offered to move the lake’s residents to shelters or hotel rooms through Project Roomkey, a program meant to house people during the pandemic. But some people chose to stay elsewhere on the streets instead. KCRW talks to three people who were displaced from the lake.
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2 storiesEcho Park Lake: Tall fences and no more homeless camps. Where are the former residents now?
KCRW talks to three people who were displaced from the lake.
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