LA sanitation needs $17M to keep up with homeless encampments
Tasked with cleaning up rapidly multiplying numbers of homeless encampments, Los Angeles sanitation workers have asked the city for more resources to handle a backlog of thousands of service requests. On Wednesday, the city council’s Homelessness and Poverty Committee recommended increasing funding for the Bureau of Sanitation in the city’s next budget and asking workers to focus on areas that receive the most requests related to homelessness.