Libraries, gyms, coffee shops and fast food restaurants all help fill gaps in the social safety net. But with those spaces closed due to the coronavirus, unhoused people have few places to go.
Then came the coronavirus."Basically the only place I go now is the park," Mike says.
Close to 60,000 people live on the streets or in cars or shelters in L.A. County, according to the latest count by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. Like Mike, many rely on an unofficial social service network cobbled together from various places offering running water, Internet access, electrical outlets and a free or cheap place to sit. Libraries, gyms, coffee shops and fast food restaurants all help fill gaps in the social safety net.
"The big thing there is just the capacity reduction for ... restrooms and hand-washing, or even just a place where people can go," she says."Where we're losing capacity, we're spending a lot of time trying to rebuild it, so we're not losing those very critical hygiene services." Hand sanitizer is dispensed at a mobile shower service provided by The Shower of Hope in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles on March 23, 2020.Hand sanitizer is dispensed at a mobile shower service provided by The Shower of Hope in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles on March 23, 2020.City, county and California state officials are working on various plans to move people experiencing homelessness indoors.
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