Amid a deepening homelessness crisis, top Los Angeles County officials are grappling with how best to collaborate with City Hall as it struggles to deal with sanitation issues arising from thousands living on the streets.
Pedestrians cross a street lined with trash near in downtown Los Angeles last month. One police officer in the area was diagnosed with typhoid fever, and two others are showing similar symptoms, adding to concerns about the public health risks from the homeless encampments.
“Keeping the streets clean is a top priority,” he said. “We already collaborate with the county on this issue every day, and we will continue working together to make sure our streets are healthy and safe.” Rotting trash and human waste from people living in tent encampments on city sidewalks has turned parts of the city intoLast week, county Supervisor Kathryn Barger won passage of a motion instructing the county government to write a plan for working together with health and sanitation officials at the city of Los Angeles to improve conditions on the streets.
In response, the director of the county’s public health department, Barbara Ferrer, who oversees Davis, the county health officer who wrote the letter to the city, told supervisors that she sent a team of inspectors to survey areas where unsanitary conditions were documented. She said those inspectors found many problems related to illegal trash dumping, but also rodent burrows and other poor conditions.
During last week’s discussion on the homeless count at the Board of Supervisors meeting, dozens of residents and housing advocates spoke about the issue.
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