This would be a cool place to make a house.’ I picked it as a sanctuary, a place to kick back, to be close to God and to the ocean.” “Eventually, I climbed inside and saw that it was empty. “I watched it for a month or so,” Covington recalls.
The company installed a water tank while the landscaping work went on, but in 2004 the project’s cash-flow dried up and Calex abandoned the site, leaving the tank behind.
In the early 1990s, the City of LA had hired Calex Engineering to convert the area known as Potrero Canyon into a park. But Covington could live rent-free in the brush below – and that was where he first saw the tank. It’s prime LA real estate: the properties perched atop the cliff are worth millions. Instead, he was drawn to a secluded spot beside the PCH, far from the unwelcome attentions of the authorities. But he was never one to sleep on benches or under bridges, nor does he care for homeless shelters. He first became homeless decades ago, and loosely attributes his slide into transience to “a couple of bad relationships”.
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