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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....heh....
Good.
It’s well past time the elite reap what they sowed instead of inflicting it on us and exempting themselves.
The citizenry of Martha’s Vineyard would never tolerate “homeless” camps.
Yes, yes, yes — well put.
Let them enjoy the suck that they brewed up for themselves. They have their do-nothing, absent governor to thank. Of course, they’re too stupid to vote themselves out of it.
Getting it good and hard, aren’t they?
Not hard enough.
Never take any of them seriously because they're all quite brain dead.
Gosh, I feel bad for them. They may have to move to San Francisco. Oh, wait that won’t work. Geez, this is just awful. I know! Send Alex Baldwin out with an unloaded Colt revolver to move them out. Problem solved. /s. WGAF
Those celebritiy houses are much larger than the owners need, so why don’t they demonstrate how woke and caring they are by opening their homes to those poor unfortunate homeless people?
Finally, anyone can have a Beverly Hills address.
CRY ME A RIVER BEVERLY HILLS CALIFORNIA.
Down and out in Beverly Hill II??
Some enterprising conservative soul should start offering free bus service from San Francisco to Beverly Hills, to spread the “wealth” around...I’m sure the Socialists in both places would find it only fair.
Always nice to see leftists get what they voted for. One more small step to looking like South Africa.
She’s a Baldwin, fortunately Daughter of Stephen Baldwin the only sane Baldwin Brother and Republican.
Oh no, anyway…
They can embrace the diversity of hypodermic needles in human feces on the street. Liberals always love diversity, right? The more the better, right?
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