5-Year Homeless Encampment Dismantled In Hollywood

HOLLYWOOD, CA — A longstanding encampment was taken down and some 30 homeless people were moved into temporary housing as part of the latest Inside Safe operation in Hollywood, Mayor Karen Bass announced Friday.

The encampment, located outside the Sunset Sound recording studio just west of Sunset Boulevard and Highland Avenue, had caused problems for the recording studio owners and other businesses in the area, the mayor's office said.

According to the mayor's office, the encampment had caused problems for the recording studio owners, as well as other businesses in the area. The Inside Safe operation occurred on Sunset Boulevard in partnership with L.A. City Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez and county Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, who both represent the area.

"This week's Inside Safe operations in Hollywood and near Koreatown continue the work to urgently bring unhoused Angelenos inside and save lives," Bass said in a statement. "I want to thank Supervisor Horvath, Councilman Soto- Martinez and our service provider partners for their work to lock arms to address this crisis head on."

Soto-Martinez noted that the people living at this encampment had been there for about five years. They will now be able to move into housing because of Inside Safe, he added.

"With 100% of unhoused residents accepting services and housing through this operation, we are proving that when we do the hard work to find sustainable housing solutions, we can bring folks off the streets for good," Soto-Martinez said in a statement.