Homelessness has been a growing problem during COVID-19. While the media has given much attention to pandemic related homelessness, the growing rate of homelessness amongst LGBTQ teens has been largely neglected. According to NBC News, studies show that 20% to 45% of...
As you wait for the red light to turn green, a man sitting on the curb catches your eye, but you quickly turn away because once you make eye contact, it's game over. You turn back to face the road, but suddenly, you hear a knock on your window. You turn to the man as...
The wildfires in Australia rampaged through many bushland areas, border states and even major cities of the country. Fires have occurred in every state of Australia, hitting New South Wales the hardest, and even seen in cities like Melbourne and Sydney, according to...
The tents line the streets like scattered fall leaves. There are thousands of them — thousands of homeless men, women, and children in one of the most notorious neighborhoods in Los Angeles. This is Skid Row, the site of one of the largest homeless populations in the...
Today as I was driving to work, a homeless man standing by a freeway exit in Glendale, Calif. caught my eye. As a observed the situation, I witnessed dozens of people pass by the man on the windy, cold L.A. afternoon, not a single person sacrificed a dollar. Now...
As part of a series on the rezoning of Skid Row, The Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) held its final showing of the play “The Back Nine” on June 17. The play explores the potential impacts of introducing market-rate housing to the city’s most important...
Papa Charles, as he refers to himself, is a homeless person we met at Seccombe Park in February of this year. He was full of life and talked about his problems including his family and his living situation. "Everybody sees the homeless as a negative part of...
Homelessness has been such a big issue for such a long while now in Los Angeles. There is about 82,000 estimated homeless in L.A., with 33-55 percent being female and 75 percent men. Last year there was a proposition on the ballot, Measure HHH, which a yes vote meant...
The United states is the best country in the world. Well, that is what they’ll tell you anyway, but the U.S is far from being the best if you ask me. The U.S. is no totalitarian country but it concerns itself with the problems of the world without first solving the...
My fellow Americans, in today's society we face serious problems. One major problem I find is the issue of homelessness in America. Our forefathers did not envision a country that does not provide for all its people. This country was meant as a safe haven, an asylum...
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