A group of residents and business owners in a tony California beach enclave that’s been overrun by homeless junkies is paying to ship local vagrants out of town — and claims both sides are thrilled.
Sidewalks in the chic’’ Los Angeles suburb of Santa Monica have become riddled with tents while bums ransack its shops and boutiques and shoot up in the parks in broad daylight.
An official state of emergency and tens of millions in taxpayer dollars have done little to help get them off the streets.
So the local Santa Monica Coalition said, why not just help them leave?
DeBlau, a homeless man who lives in a Santa Monica park, says he’d love a one-way ticket out of town. Barbara Davidson/NY Post Local property manager John Alle, speaking with a homeless man from Alabama in a Santa Monica park, spearheaded the relocation program. Barbara Davidson/NY Post