homelessness
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Even before the task force’s launch, there was growing concern from the public and some elected officials that the billions spent to combat homelessness hasn’t meaningfully shrunk the number of people sleeping on the street.
From Los Angeles Times
All were driven to renounce the material world and liberate themselves from desires by going “forth to homelessness,” as several poems put it.
The 8-foot by 8-foot sheds have become a staple of quick solutions to homelessness but face the criticism of being cramped, flimsy and undignified.
From Los Angeles Times
Previous heavy-handed law enforcement tactics under former council members yielded minimal results, while current efforts focus on addressing root causes of homelessness, addiction, and neighborhood disinvestment.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s not homelessness, a lack of housing or the state’s increasing unaffordability, all of which have been documented at length.
From Los Angeles Times
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