Posted on 04/11/2023 11:13:46 PM PDT by Morgana
Beverly Hills is known for being a stomping ground of the Hollywood elite, but as homelessness in Los Angeles has grown, so too have its encampments.
The median house price in Beverly Hills is around $3.5million, yet those luxury houses are now juxtaposed against a clusters of tents, prominent along residential streets, highways and parks.
Photos taken on Tuesday reveal tarpaulins, shopping carts, mattresses and loose bedding next to busy junctions and on the sidewalks of the wealthy suburb.
The scenes were captured along San Vicente Blvd, near the upscale Beverly Center shopping mall where celebrities including Victoria Beckham, Paris Hilton and Hailey Bieber have all been known to shop.
An estimated 40,000 people are homeless in the city of Los Angeles, which has a population of nearly 4 million people.
The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority estimated there were around 70,000 people experiencing homelessness in the wider Los Angeles County in 2022, a four percent increase since 2020.
In January the affluent Sherman Oaks neighborhood, just north of Beverly Hills made national headlines after three people died on its streets in just one week.
There are no certain statistics on homelessness in Beverly Hills, but in a report seen by local paper the Beverly Hills Courier, city manager Nancy Hunt-Coffey wrote that it 'seems to be increasing'.
Last year a number of residents in the neighborhood gave testimony to the city council on their experiences of homelessness as part of a discussion to address the escalating issue.
'Many of my peers are considering moving because they consider the situation hopeless,' said Amy Conroy, who said she is afraid to let her children play outside.
Recently elected Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ran a campaign on claims she was going to address the growing homeless crisis in Los Angeles.
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What happened to the infamously reactive Beverly Hill police?
What are the odds that these ‘homeless’ encampments are setting up an an-place army for an invasion?
All the ‘migrants’ seem to be military-aged men
You’re right—It’s a “Dr Zhivago Event” in the making!
Diversity, Equity, Inclusiveness; right here in Beverly Hills.
From a comment at the article...
“None of those tent city pictures are from Beverly Hills, they’re from nearby in Los Angeles. There has never been a tent city in BH. As for the comments gloating about how we voted for this, no we didn’t. BH is a conservative city with a conservative city council.”
Great! Celebrities love the homeless.
EXCELLENT!
Its long past time they “shared” in this “enrichment” of their community.
Could not happen to a better bunch.
Is OJ back??
Yep. If private citizens can’t carry guns it naturally follows that private security guards should not be able to either. I wholeheartedly support this.
Let the celebritards enjoy that which they’ve advocated for everybody else. Let them finally be subject to the implications of their own ideology for once.
I don’t care who you are. That’s funny.
“Let them enjoy the suck that they brewed up for themselves. “
More like the suck they brewed up for us.
They would do this.......if they “cared”.
Not only that, think of how much it would please Earth Mother Gaia! No private jets or yachts and huge mansions to be “shared” with those who don’t have a home. Save da Erf!
Why am I having a hard time believing this......
Good.
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They must be proud of Adam Schiff...
She looks a little beat-up, a little.....used.
I’m waiting to see what the “celebrities” do when one of their own gets mugged, raped, or murdered.
These homeless druggies are going to have to be harshly dealt with. Kids can’t play outside because a bunch of freaks are living in a tent in the front yard. Ok.... that makes total sense in a woke society. Leftists are such sick freaks. Totally degenerate communists.
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