Most voters continue to express empathy for homeless people, but also impatience and disappointment with the region’s leadership, according to a new poll, conducted by the Los Angeles Business Council Institute in cooperation with The Times.
It’s hard to know the true picture of how many people are homeless currently. The 2020 point-in-time count, mandated by the federal government, found that 66,000 people in the county were homeless. That occurred in January, before the COVID-19 pandemic had come into full force.
Morino, the student and mom who left Mar Vista, is a former foster care youth who now has four foster children along with two kids she’s adopted and a newborn. She said the children she fostered had been homeless, and she has experienced housing insecurity as well. For her, homelessness is a “pandemic” that the government has failed to even attempt to cure — one that she has seen firsthand.
If anyone should have been able to escape homelessness, it’s John Maurer, whose siblings are prominent in L.A.'s homelessness and mental health systems. Even with the anger surrounding the crisis, respondents to the poll appear to have a clear picture of what’s driving thousands of Angelenos to sleep on the streets and who is responsible for addressing the crisis.
How a voter responded to that question strongly correlated with other views in the survey. Those who blame broad, societal problems for homelessness are significantly more likely to support government action to combat it.
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