Black, Homeless and Burdened by L.A.'s Legacy of Racism [latimes.com]
By Jugal k> Patel, Tim Arango, Anjali Singhvi, and Jon Huang, Los Angeles Times, December 22, 2019 Homelessness is Los Angeles’s defining crisis. Income inequality, a shortage of housing, failing mental health services and drug addiction all contribute to growing scenes of squalor across America’s second-largest city. The federal government recently estimated that a nearly 3 percent rise in homelessness nationwide this year was driven mostly by California. Yet it does not affect everyone...