KOREATOWN, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Residents in a Koreatown neighborhood are expressing frustration over a sprawling homeless encampment that includes such unexpected amenities as a makeshift tennis court, garden and barbecue pit.

The encampment is located on an otherwise empty lot on Manhattan Place, between Seventh and Eighth streets, surrounded by apartment complexes and other buildings.

"The reason why people are sleeping here is because you leaders are sleeping on not taking initiative and action to clean this place up," Koreatown resident Daniel King said in an interview with ABC7.

Max Smith, who also lives nearby, said of the privately owned lot: "Now it's a city in there. It's crazy. It's crazy."

Aerial video from AIR7 shows what local resident Sangmin Lee describes as "a whole

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