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Homelessness in Los Angeles: from Safer City to Home for Good
With about 48,000 homeless living on its streets, Los Angeles is the homeless capital of the country. Over the past decade, cities like Denver, New York and San Francisco have all dramatically reduced their homeless populations by building permanent housing. But here, homelessness has grown faster than the national rate in no small part because of discordant county and city governments. Nearly five years after Mayor Villaraigosa's Skid Row Safer City Initiative-the policing strategy that placed 50 additional officers in the fifty block area of downtown's skid row-we look ahead at what is left to be done to address homeless issues downtown and throughout the county.
Join Patt Morrison at KPCC's Crawford Family Forum to discuss where Los Angeles goes from here and new proposals such as the Home for Good plan, which combines the social service knowledge of United Way with the private business model of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and aims to end homelessness with permanent housing by 2016. With so many plans proposed and failed, what if anything sets this ambitious model apart from the rest? And why has homelessness proven to be such a singularly intractable issue for Los Angeles while it has motivated so many other regions to act?
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LocationThe Crawford Family Forum
474 S. Raymond Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91105
United States
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| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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