Our City Hall Reporter Mariana Martínez Barba watched dozens of workers clean homeless encampment trash from a downtown freeway.
Homeless people sleeping there watched too, and waited. When the workers finished, the men moved their stuff back to the exact same spot.
The city inked a deal with the state to get reimbursed for clean-ups of the growing makeshift homeless communities along freeways. But two months into the deal, it’s clear the problem won’t be fixed until there are enough places for everyone to go, said Franklin Coopersmith, the deputy director of the city’s Environmental Services Department…