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Sign up for the Morning Brief, delivered weekdays. Subscribe City Councilman Mike Bonin announced a new effort last week to connect homeless residents of the Venice boardwalk with shelter and permanent housing. But the six-week program is arriving while people living in the encampments on Ocean Front Walk are weighing an ultimatum from L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva: accept deputies’ offer of shelter, leave the area by July 4th or you may face arrest. The seemingly contradictory approaches are set to collide when Bonin’s “Venice Beach Encampment to Home” program starts on Monday. In a letter posted online, Bonin laid out a plan to ramp up homelessness outreach services on Ocean Front Walk, where hundreds of tents now line the beach for more than a mile of the iconic Venice shoreline. His goal is to clear most encampments by early August.

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