Imagine if we put the same effort into housing homeless Angelenos as we do Olympic athletes (via latimesopinion)
Murez envisions an array of such shelters on the land near LAX, laid out in a thoughtful, environmentally sound way. Families would be in one area, those needing addiction or mental health services in another. Garden areas for food production could serve both health and therapeutic needs. Some tents would serve as social service centers, security stations, dining and hygiene areas.
The impact of a large transitional housing village would resonate across the city. At present, the law prohibits removing homeless encampments because the city doesn’t have enough beds or services for the people living in them. Under Murez’s plan, every person currently sleeping in an alley, under a freeway or in a park, would have a safe bed, the services he or she needs, warm showers and hot meals.
outdoors, but the city can’t even begin to address their resistance until it has enough indoor facilities for all.to provide housing for every person who needs it. Current projects for transitional shelters are bogged down with neighborhood objections, and even then don’t begin to reach the scale needed to get every homeless person off the streets. Meanwhile, the number of homeless people grows year over year.
Rob Eshman is the former publisher and editor-in-chief of the Jewish Journal. He blogs at foodaism.com.
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