Friday, June 7, 2019

The Los Angeles Times: L.A.'s homelessness surged 75% in six years. Here's why the crisis has been decades in the making

By GALE HOLLAND , FEB 01, 2018

Some of the poorest people in the city spend their days in the shadow of Los Angeles City Hall, napping on flattened cardboard boxes.

On any given day, as many as 20 people take to the City Hall lawn, across the street from LAPD headquarters. They're there to "escape the madness" in downtown streets, a 53-year-old homeless man named Lazarus said last week. At night, they fan out to doorways or deserted plazas to wait for daybreak.

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