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    Why LA's ban on homeless encampments near schools, day care has become heated election issue

    LOS ANGELES — Echo Park resident Stan Gale was seriously thinking of moving out of L.A. The 66-year-old chiropractor used to hear screaming and gunfire in the middle of the night on Glendale Boulevard, where a homeless encampment occupied both sides of the street. Thieves broke into his car, ripped out his mailbox and stole packages from his front steps, he said. Those problems largely ...
    by David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times Oct 31, 2022 6 minutes
    A sign on Allesandro Street marks one of Los Angeles' new anti-encampment zones, which bars tents from going up within 500 feet of an Echo Park elementary school, Oct. 4, 2022.

    LOS ANGELES — Echo Park resident Stan Gale was seriously thinking of moving out of L.A.

    The 66-year-old chiropractor used to hear screaming and gunfire in the middle of the night on Glendale Boulevard, where a homeless encampment occupied both sides of the street. Thieves broke into his car, ripped out his mailbox and stole packages from his front steps, he said.

    Those problems largely disappeared, Gale said, after Councilmember Mitch O'Farrell designated the area as a no-encampment zone.

    "I'm not Mr. 'I love my politicians,'" Gale said, gesturing toward a landscaped area that is now fenced off. "But Mitch did this."

    O'Farrell, first elected in 2013, has emerged as a proponent of the city's controversial anti-encampment law, using it to designate 18 locations in Hollywood, Silver Lake and other neighborhoods as off limits to tents. But he is facing a vigorous reelection challenge from labor organizer Hugo Soto-Martinez, who has promised to take the district in a different direction.

    Soto-Martinez described the anti-encampment law as

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