Ever since human waste from a RV was dumped on city streets, documented and virally spread through the web and media, the mobile homeless issue in Venice has gained a lot of attention. Using that inertia City Councilmember Bill Rosendahl is calling for a community meeting next week. more ›

If the RV issue in Venice was not controversial enough, the LA Weekly today posted this recently uploaded YouTube video. It's a gritty political piece of musical and viral activism bringing attention to what Venice residents have been dealing with for a few years: neighborhood population growth via the mobile homeless who live in RVs on city streets. more ›

For the second time in a week, L.A. City Councilmember Bill Rosendahl has reacted to community concern voiced to the city directly about the RV parking issue that's been coming to a head this week. The controversy has heated up so much -- much thanks to dramatic alleged human waste dumping on city streets and a subsequent arrest -- that the internet and mainstream media is taking on the story with a much more watchful eye. more ›

RV dwellers allegedly dumping their sewage onto city streets became a big news topic last week after Venice residents began documenting and publishing the incidents online. The city took swift action, arresting one person and creating a working group to address human waste, but the dumping reportedly continued. more ›

Looks like an unofficial public health alert issued by a blog on Monday has gotten the attention of city officials. Last night police cleared some streets in the Venice area, making room for sanitation officials to clean sewage -- including human waste -- allegedly dumped by RV dwellers. One arrest was also made. more ›

Controversy over the mobile RV homeless population in the RV area is nothing new, but it looks like the ante has been raised. This weekend a couple living in an RV in the Venice area allegedly dumped their "black water' onto a city street, prompting the local blog Yo! Venice to issue their own style of a health alert. more ›

it's been a long battle between permanent residents and the new mobile permanent residents of Venice. With the streets filling up with RVs and some allegedly dumping water waste (in the literal sense, too), on lawns and into the streets, residents wanted to limit the amount of overnight and RV parking in the neighborhood. It's what the residents ultimately voted for and what California Coastal Commission staffed urged. Nonetheless, Commission members voted against restrictions, saying it was not their "job to be the balance between homeless and residents.” Therefore, RVs stay put for now. We posted a good "catching up" video on this subject a couple weeks ago. more ›

Venice attracts a lot of people and has always had a number of vehicular homeless along its streets. More recently, thanks to the economy, the number of RVs, minivans and other vehicles housing people without a traditional home, have increased so much, that residents want to create overnight parking districts, effectively eliminating the problem... well, from their neighborhood, at least. KCET's SoCal Connected explored the issue last week in this above segment. more ›

The 2009 Los Angeles Homeless Count began last night, primarily covering the Westside including Venice, Santa Monica and West LA. One-hundred or so volunteers of all ages met in Culver City to split into teams and receive instructions on how to properly count. more ›

"The community has been going ballistic," Rosendahl said of the Venice community looking down on all the new RVs making home on local streets. "They can't park their own cars. Some of the folks who live in their cars and in campers defecate and urinate outside and create other issues of quality of life and health... Let's stop kidding ourselves. People are living in their cars.,, So let's deal with the reality. In this economic downturn, it's even increasing." It is currently illegal to sleep in a car overnight in Los Angeles more ›