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Residents of LA’s South Bay community say they are fed up with dumping, trash fires and rising crime in their neighborhood — issues they claim are directly tied to nearby homeless encampments.
The area sits at the intersection of multiple jurisdictions, including Union Pacific Railroad, Caltrans, the state of California and the city of Los Angeles. That overlap has made it difficult to determine who’s responsible for addressing the growing problems, but locals say they’re hopeful that Governor Gavin Newsom’s new ordinance targeting homeless encampments will finally be a solution…