Beverly Hills, March 2021:

Beverly Hills, August 2022:

(I stole these photos from this commenter.)

Homeless people who set up encampments on the border of Beverly Hills claim they were TOLD to move there by cops – as residents complain they ‘fight all hours of the day’ and sell drugs

Daily Mail UK | April 18, 2023 | Harriet Alexander

‘They’re fighting at all hours of the day. They’re doing drugs. They’re selling drugs. It’s out of control,’ said one Beverly Grove resident, speaking to KTLA.

‘We pay so much in property tax and so much in income tax, it is not fair for us to live like this.’

Yet James Boss, who has been homeless for over a decade, told the network that he and others were told to move there.

‘They told us to come over here,’ he said. ‘The (sheriff’s department) and the police department told us to come over this way because they were going to offer us housing.’

Next time, get it in writing, Boss.

LAPD would not comment when asked whether they asked the homeless population to move to that spot.

Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, has launched a program, Inside Safe, which aims to clear homeless encampments. It is designed to move those currently homeless into permanent housing.

Where . . . Malibu?

Next time, get it in writing, Bass.

The most recent survey conducted by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority found approximately 69,000 people experiencing homelessness in LA County, and 41,000 in the city in 2022.

About half the homeless population of the city struggles with drug or alcohol addiction, and about a third have serious mental illnesses. Homeless deaths average five a day.

Five a day? Let us address that first.

Oscar the Grouch suing for the lowering of his property value.