“Venice Shorts”: Drug use evident in Bridge Housing Facility

Loitering and open drug use on Main Street unsettles residents

By Nick Antonicello

Sources say Yo! Venice that drug dealing and open drug use is evident and visible to all right outside the entrance to the Bridge Housing facility on Main Street.

According to eyewitness reports, there is a group of drug dealers and users who have set up camp right outside the door and have been staying there for over a week (see picture).

Sources say residents are afraid to walk past them for fear of being accosted or attacked. Many of these addicts go to the ABH and leave their dogs chained outside for hours.

A resident called animal control, but no one showed up. Apparently several dogs were chained up and left in the hot sun all day without water.

Residents are now questioning the lack of enforcement of this SECZ and wondering why such rampant drug activity is allowed? Many residents are asking Bridge Housing operators for answers.

The lack of enforcement has many residents turning to Councilwoman Traci Park’s staff, who is working diligently to create a safe and crime-free environment around this controversial facility, which has been a source of crime since it was built several years ago.

Nick Antonicello has lived in the neighborhood for 31 years and reports on the storage and RV crisis on the streets of Venice. Antonicello, one of the earliest opponents of bridge building, can be reached by email at [email protected]