Chris Buck, center, pushes his small, portable home, that has a bed inside, along the boardwalk in Venice Beach.
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Resident Mike Bravo worries about what the government of an independent Venice would look like.
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Bicyclists ride along Venice beach.
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Lifelong resident Pamela Anderson outside her Venice home.
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Skateboarders pass by a man sleeping on a bench at the Venice boardwalk.
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Venice plays an outsize role in making Los Angeles “the funky and fiercely independent international city that it is,” City Councilman Mike Bonin says.
