Re: April 15, 2021 “At Length” Column

Your article regarding Safe Encampments is brilliant!

Your definition of “economic refugees,” the possible reasons for being “shelter resistant,” the ridiculous cost of “clean sweeps” and the understanding of the human need to create social networks, all point to your suggested “Safe Camping” sites.

I wonder if there is a legal reason keeping these camps from being formed because it seems like a realistic and humane solution. Michele Vanderlip Rancho Palos Verdes

Los Angeles has opened its first government-run homeless encampment, on a parking lot by the 101 freeway in East Hollywood. This comes weeks after officials shut down what was one of the city’s largest encampments at Echo Park Lake, two miles away. The question for Councilman Joe Buscaino is whether he’s going to wait for Judge David O. Carter to issue an order to do the same in CD15? James Preston Allen Publisher