Is the County’s plan to appoint a new homelessness leader a real solution? Or just shifting deck chairs on the Titanic?
toward a hypothetical new department would directly help Angelenos currently experiencing homelessness.“When you’re confronted with a hemorrhaging wound, you don’t say, let’s reconstitute our hospital board of directors, then restructure the way we send the ambulance out, then deploy our paramedics differently, and if you bleed out while we’re trying some of this stuff, sorry,” she said.
LAHSA has been criticized for not doing enough to combat homelessness, although some have said its status as an agency jointly run by the city and county has left it hamstrung. When you’re confronted with a hemorrhaging wound, you don’t say, let’s reconstitute our hospital board of directors, then restructure the way we send the ambulance out, then deploy our paramedics differently, and if you bleed out while we’re trying some of this stuff, sorry.
Marston said ultimately, the plan does little to address the root causes of homelessness she cited in her: low wages, the high cost of living, systemic racism and unequal access to healthcare, education and housing.
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