Homelessness in Los Angeles has reached epidemic proportions. The sad reality is that our politicians refuse to address the issue for fear of not being re-elected. Last year’s homeless count showed a jump of 12% in L.A. County and 16% in the city.
The annual point-in-time count, delivered to the Board of Supervisors, put the number of homeless people just shy of 59,000 countywide. Within the city of Los Angeles, the number soared to more than 36,000, a 16% increase. The survey found 8,000 homeless in San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys.
The rising impacts of automation and the flood of low cost products from other countries that deny us jobs. Walmart, Target, Costco all buy the cheap products we crave. We are all to blame.
Just keep putting your head in the sand and hope this will all work out. But will it and how?
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We are all just one emergency away from being homeless in our country. What is truly sad is that so few understand that. Our rate of inequality of wealth is higher than in the 1920s and that led to the great depression. That is our future unless something changes. History is a great teacher but sadly few are capable of learning. Thank you for your postings
Homelessness is here to stay just the same as alcoholism, drug dependency, welfare dependents, bums who would rather have the government take of them from the cradle to the grave than to do an honest day’s work … Homelessness, drugs, guns and illicit sex are the marks of our modern day social order and nothing is ever going to change unless we all perish in a nuclear holocaust because of the government’s pushing the boundaries with Russia and China.,