A sprawling homeless encampment in Los Angeles is drawing ire from neighbors who say the makeshift shelter has grown into a full “city” of its own, complete with working electricity and a recreational area featuring a tennis court, garden and barbecue pit.

The encampment sits on a vacant Koreatown lot surrounded by apartment buildings and other structures, according to ABC 7.

“The reason why people are sleeping here is because you leaders are sleeping on not taking initiative and action to clean this place up,” neighborhood resident Daniel King told the station. 6

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Max Smith, another neighbor, described the privately owned site as “a city in there,” adding, “It’s crazy. It’s crazy.”

“There’s a tennis court, there’s a garden where they’re growing stuff,” resident Sangmin Lee to

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