We’ve been suffering through the worst economic recession since the Great Depression over the past year, leading many of us to assume that social conditions have been worsening. Poverty and unemployment, and foreclosures have clearly been on the rise, and certainly we’ve expected that homelessness – the most extreme expression of poverty and insecurity – [...]
Archive for October, 2009
New Homeless Numbers for L.A. What did we expect?
Posted in Data, Homelessness, Los Angeles, Poverty, tagged Homelessness, Los Angeles, Poverty on October 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Providing housing for the homeless saves money
Posted in Homelessness, Los Angeles, tagged Homelessness, Los Angeles on October 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
more about “How to Save Tax Dollars: Give the Hom…“, posted with vodpod It shouldn’t be a surprise, but to many people it is. It turns out that instead of letting people suffer on the street or in shelters, we should be working to provide housing for them. Not only is it better for them [...]
