Friday, March 02, 2018

You and a roof over your head

When there's a man who seems to have no where else to go falling asleep in a Denny's and the server wakes him up and you remember the growing problem of homelessness because of the gaps between rents and incomes.

" Consider the pairs of thick gloves that George Abou-Daoud has stashed inside the nine restaurants he owns on the east side of Hollywood."

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-homelessness-impact-on-others-20180301-htmlstory.html

"Nadia and her children are among the economically homeless — men, women and, often enough, families, who find themselves without a place to live because of some kind of setback or immediate crisis: a divorce, a short-term illness, a loss of a job, an eviction. In many cities across the nation, these are not necessarily problems that would plunge a person into homelessness. But here they can. Why? Because of the shockingly high cost of housing in Los Angeles."

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-economically-homeless-20180226-htmlstory.html

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