In the late 2010s, Nicole Deering, a community resource specialist in the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Neighborhood Prosecutor Program, began a push to remove a shabby turquoise shelter covering a bus stop on Vermont Avenue near 54th Street. The problem, she wrote in an email to the city’s streets department, was the “persisting and increasing” number of transients the shade and benches attracted to the South L.A. sidewalk.

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