On Friday morning, the rest A huge homeless camp In Manhattan Place is a huge pile of trash, and the former residents’ belongings have already returned home.
On a clearing in Koreatown, the camp has been around for several months. It is home to about 10 people and has been repeatedly complained by neighbors in nearby apartments and apartments. They say homeless neighbors there are noisy, aggressive, and pose a fire risk when they break into adjacent street lights to steal electricity from the grid. Some say they saw the drug deal that appeared to have occurred on the scene.
City officials said the fact was a delay in cleaning up of private property, but they were finally able to coordinate plans with the owners of the plot.
Homeless camp on a closed plot on S Manhattan PL. Friday, September 12, 2025 in Koreatown, Los Angeles, California.
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On Thursday, police told the rest Camp Resident They had to leave and the workers began to clean up the site. On Friday, grey and red backhoe moved a pile of garbage and other items into a large blue bin.
Nancy Herrera, 48, lives across the camp and says she is ecstatic and finally Deleted. She said the place often smelled and residents were filled with noise at night. She said someone once jumped into her brother’s car as he drove down the street.
“Now, we’re happy,” Herrera said, then saying the owners of the batch needed to take action to make sure people don’t get back there.
Owner Elk Development did not immediately return emails seeking comments.
Leo Daube, a spokesman for the councillor who represents the region, said Services and Housing The owner of the plot hired a transport truck to remove debris.
Zach Seidl, a spokesman for Mayor Karen Bass, said eight people were moved into temporary housing and the mayor was “committed to bring Angelenos indoors as we continue to work to reduce the efforts of homeless people across the city.”
“Step have been taken to manage this lot and we will continue to be responsible for the maintenance and security of this website,” Seidel said.
Tim Gilbert, 43, kneeled in a homeless camp on a gated lot in S Manhattan PL. Friday, September 12, 2025 in Koreatown, Los Angeles, California. Gilbert was the first to build a place of living on this lot and see people coming and going to what he described as a “peaceful” community.
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Before it was removed, residents said the dirty camp had grown into a community. They dragged into the kimchi net, where people would volley from time to time. Residents grill hamburgers and chicken in two barbecue restaurants. There is a small tomato, onion and marijuana.
Andres Reyes sat across the street from the steps of the apartment building when the backhoe put the remnants of that life into the bin Friday.
Reyes said he lived in the camp for about four months in the tent he shared with his friends, but about a week ago he heard that cleaning was coming. He said he did not receive a housing offer.
Tahj Banks, 36, sits next to his artwork produced on a homeless camp in a closed lot on S Manhattan PL. Friday, September 12, 2025 in Koreatown, Los Angeles, California. Banks, originally from New York, came to Los Angeles in part to pursue his artistic efforts in painting and music.
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The night before, he spent the night on the steps and asked the nearby residents to sympathize.
He said he and his camp residents were “probably a little noisy” but he was unaware of any drug deals, “we never harass our neighbors.”
“I feel like everything is taken away from us,” Reyes said. “I lost a lot of memories.”
