1. Boardwalk Slum.
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ABRAMSKY, SASHA
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RENTAL housing , *HOMELESSNESS , *EMPLOYEE rights , *SLUMS , *SOCIAL services , *URBAN planning , *LOW-income housing , *COMMUNITY housing - Abstract
"IN OUR BUILDING, IT'S 75 PERCENT AIRBNB", SAYS A VENICE RESIDENT WHO lives in a large complex a couple of blocks from the coast. "Tenants were disappearing and being replaced by revolving-door strangers", says Judy Goldman, a longtime Los Angeles resident who is the cofounder of an affordable housing advocacy group called Keep Neighborhoods First. FEATURES VENICE IS LOS ANGELES'S BOHEMIA. Of the more than 35,000 residents of Venice, nearly 2,000 are homeless people living on the streets, according to a Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority count from January 2020. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2021