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(301 votes) 11:08 am
April 9, 2009
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swankgirlvenice said
Wait just a minute….I am a Rose/7th Ave proximate neighbor and I am not satisfied. In fact, no one has communicated ANY info to the residents of which I am aware.
So, no, "Sounds like 7th Street/ Rose residents were happy their concerns were respected, the homeless were happy they got a meal," Respectfully, Bret, that simply didn't happen. I'm not happy and my concerns have not been respected.
In fact, WF has not responded to the community at all. WF did respond to me via a FB post I made on Saturday – that's it.
Not only do I have Bread and Roses at the end of my street but now this feeding a block away.
Bread and Roses patrols – with automobiles – the neighborhood before/during/after its feedings.
What security measures have been taken to protect the neighborhood? What social services agencies are present at these feedings to help transition some of these folks off the street? Are there any rules for attending? Where does WF and the Benefactor think these folks will go after the feeding? Not far.
It was raining on Sunday and everyone was running for cover – so that is not an 'average' sort of barometer for how these will be handled in the future.
I'm with you Swank. I don't care if the feeding was moved across the street from WH, it's still in our neighborhood. I am just sick and tired of Venice being LA City's scapegoat for the homeless. Get them out of our city, not encourage them to stay. Call it mean spirited or whatever, but what is the point in "helping" these people if they don't want to be helped and can care less about bettering their lives. They just continue to throw trash around the alley behind my house or use the park 50 yards from my front door as a public bathroom after a day of drinking on the playground.
And I sent a comment to WH via their Venice store website…surprise, surprise I didn't receive any sort of response.
10:33 am
September 15, 2011
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WF held their free food for the homeless this morning on OFW near the Rose Ave lot and near where I live and I gotta tell you I found it to be well organized and not problematic.
10:53 am
October 30, 2010
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Thank you Ms Venice. We need eye witness accounts in real time like this. Venice appreciates any information that will help our City to continue to evolve. Now that you have given your eye witness account,we can better address any concerns that other STAKEHOLDERS may have. Thanks again Lady.
11:43 am
September 15, 2011
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Hi paviasdad. I just rode by on my way home from the Ocean Park farmer's market and the WF tent is down, everything is gone and the area is clean. What I can also report is that some of the people that took avail of the generosity of WF were not homeless, regardless the staff and volunteers treated everyone courteously and gave those who asked for food a nice meal and some respect. I am now gonna go up to WF and do a little shopping and thank them for being good neighbors. It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, I hope everyone gets outside to enjoy the blue skies and sunshine ; )
1:24 pm
October 30, 2010
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Hey Ms Venice. :) thank you sooo much for your Community involvement! You really are Ms Venice. I just gave WF cuddles on their fb page. I hope our STAKEHOLDERS can acknowledge someone when they do things right. It is ok to express concerns, just do it in a constructive manner, but please let someone know when they are doing things right. Let's get active Venice, summer is coming.
2:20 pm
November 10, 2011
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Yup lets get active and clean up Venice. It has been a dumping ground for to long. Lets enforce the no camping laws.
5:22 pm
September 20, 2011
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shame on the invading yuppie cockroaches who now want Venice to be like SM, Palisades, or wherever the heck it is they MOVED from…take your yoga mats, bike lanes, and lack of compassion for human beings back to your yuppy caves…
while it may not be the BEST idea to feed the truly helpless and hungry mixed in with the drug addicted and mentally challenged, it is the RIGHT thing to do to help your fellow human…unless of course you're NOT human…and a damned NIMBY
5:42 pm
April 9, 2009
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digiblizzo said
shame on the invading yuppie cockroaches who now want Venice to be like SM, Palisades, or wherever the heck it is they MOVED from…take your yoga mats, bike lanes, and lack of compassion for human beings back to your yuppy caves…
while it may not be the BEST idea to feed the truly helpless and hungry mixed in with the drug addicted and mentally challenged, it is the RIGHT thing to do to help your fellow human…unless of course you're NOT human…and a damned NIMBY
small minded much? just because some of us want a clean, safe neighborhood does not make us yuppies. Yes, i have a lack of compassion for those who sleep behind my house, park their RV outside my door, leave their trash for me to pick up, piss where the neighborhood kids play. You're ok with that? I don't understand the mentality of "let's keep Venice the way it is" or "don't turn us into Santa Monica." Why wouldn't you want to better your neighborhood? Let's wash Venice of the grim.
5:53 pm
September 15, 2011
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what about the patrons of the bars on Abbot Kinney that park their cars in our neighborhood leaving us with no place for us or our friends to park, leave their litter tossed in our streets and on our beach, buy their pot here then sit in our playgrounds smoking openly, piss in our yards like dogs, shouldn't they be kicked out as well?
6:03 pm
October 30, 2010
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DL you need to listen to Ms Venice. She IS trying to wash Venice, of insensitive people. You must understand that the homeless have been here before many of us. I came here in 1984 and I saw homeless then and I see them now. They ARE STAKEHOLDERS whether you like it or not. So my advice to you is either deal with it or relocate. The homeless are as much a part of Venice as anyone else that has a Stake in our City. Once again please look in the Venice History Book to see how tolerant the Founders of this City were. That is the true character of the City not that Rush Limbaugh rhetoric that is so divisive. I manage apartments on Rose and I cleaned up my share of human waste, but my neighbors and I came up with a solution, we put up fencing and more lighting. Perhaps you should try some neighborhood cooperation like we did.
6:40 pm
May 31, 2009
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Paviasdad said:
"Once again please look in the Venice History Book to see how tolerant the Founders of this City were."
According to pages starting on page 229 of Jeffrey Stantons book, "Venice, California" , this is what happened.
In 1961, "a new effort was made at revitalizing the community and checking its decay. It soon became clear that the city government was waging a campaign to evict the 'undesirables' from the community. The police harassed, arrested and often beat hippies…blacks and chicanos." In 1977 "the police were told to hassle the street musicians."
Tolerant?
6:41 pm
November 10, 2011
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Venice should be cleaned up. There is no excuse to encourage the homeless to stay here. The residents are tired of being abused by the belligerent homeless. We have been abused for too long. We are going to help the homeless find another town to camp in and trash. The tides are turning. Less homelss in Venice is better for Venice residents. Its just that simple.
If any of you homeless advocates have a solution to the homeless problem, the compassionate Venice residents like myself and other like minded folks will support the solution. But your only solution is to leave things like they are. That is unacceptable and change for the better is going to take place. If you don't want to live in a cleaner safer Venice, than move to skid row.
