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Our Mission at the Harbor Gateway Chamber of Commerce is to empower businesses to thrive by being an invaluable resource for optimizing connections and advocating for clean, safe, healthy business corridors.
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“We don't throw garbage”: homeless people from Gardena defend themselves against those who accuse them of destroying the city
Several people who live in Gardena mobile homes defended themselves, pointing out that they are not the ones throwing garbage on the streets and blaming factory workers in the area. Likewise, they explained the reason why it is difficult for them to leave their current homes and receive support from the city. “I don't believe in government help, right now because elections are coming they offer you heaven, but it's a lie,” said Jennifer.
Published by UNIVISION on September 20, 2023
500 RVs in Harbor Gateway causes headaches for officials
Driving down Compton Boulevard or even on 129th Street and Athens Way the stretch of RVs seems endless.
The Harbor Gateway Chamber of Commerce said they've tracked 500 RVs set up in a 6.5-mile area of unincorporated Los Angeles County. Getting them to move has been a logistical nightmare that started with the moratorium placed during the pandemic and only grew.
David Matthews from Harbor Gateway Chamber featured towards the end.
Published by CBS LOS ANGELES on August 21, 2023
Business owners, residents meet with elected officials to discuss RVs cluttering streets in Gardena
Local business owners and employees are frustrated with the growing number of RVs housing homeless people and cluttering streets in Gardena.
A meeting between local law enforcement, business owners and elected officials took place on Thursday to discuss health and safety worries and potential solutions to the crisis that is starting to affect the daily lives of people in the neighborhood.
David Matthews from Harbor Gateway Chamber featured towards the end.
Published by KTLA 5 on August 3, 2023
A look inside efforts to remove RVs from LA County streets
A plan to help people living in recreational vehicles that are crowding streets and troubling neighborhoods gets a boost just weeks after it got up and running. The RV encampment pilot program is getting absorbed by Los Angeles County’s homelessness solution: Pathway Home.
The additional funding and urgency due to the emergency declaration on homelessness is helping cut through red tape, making it possible to offer those living in oversized vehicles immediate and long-term help.
Published by SPECTRUM NEWS 1 on August 28, 2023
Hundreds of RVs lining stretch of LA County bringing crime and filthy conditions, residents says
EAST GARDENA, Calif. (KABC) -- The Harbor Gateway Chamber of Commerce says there are 500 RVs parked on its streets, but politicians say some of those vehicles should soon be cleared away thanks to a Los Angeles County program that clears encampments.
The RVs are located in the East Gardena-West Rancho Dominguez area in unincorporated L.A. County.
David Matthews from Harbor Gateway Chamber featured towards the end.
Published by EYEWITNESS NEWS on August 18, 2023
Amid homelessness crisis, stretch of LA County has become an RV wasteland
EAST GARDENA, Calif. (KABC) -- The streets of East Gardena and West Rancho Dominguez weren't designed to be an RV park.
But they're home to hundreds of run-down RVs without any services.
This is unincorporated Los Angeles County and the homeless who live here are just trying to survive.
Published by EYEWITNESS NEWS on August 2, 2023
New LA County program targeting illegal RVs aims at removing, disassembling mobile homes
EAST GARDENA, Calif. (KABC) -- More than 100 business owners and residents of East Gardena and West Rancho Dominguez packed a warehouse Thursday afternoon to learn more about a Los Angeles County program designed to clear out an estimated 500 RVs that illegally line the streets there.
"It's literally two straight blocks of RV, garbage, RV, garbage!" said Toni Ziff, owner of TR Trading Company, whose warehouse hosted the meeting. "We're business people. You can't make money when you're in the middle of this kind of toilet."
David Matthews from Harbor Gateway Chamber featured towards the end.
Published by EYEWITNESS NEWS on August 4, 2023
Comunidad preocupada ante las condiciones deplorables en las que viven familias en casas rodantes
Published by UNIVISION on August 3, 2023
Problems Persist at Massive RV Encampment
More than 500 RVs line the streets of a six square mile are that encompasses unincorporated LA County and LA City's Harbor Gateway neighborhood.
David Matthews from Harbor Gateway Chamber featured towards the end.
Published by Fox News 11 on June 22, 2023
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Representing Harbor Gateway, Unincorporated LA County Areas of East Gardena,
West Rancho Dominguez, Willowbrook, Compton, Victoria & City of Gardena.
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