Only a fraction of the estimated 36,000 homeless people in Los Angeles have received housing, three years after voters approved a ballot measure that raised $1.2 billion to build homes for the poor and people living on the street
LOS ANGELES - After years on the street, Kimberly Decoursey spends her nights at a Los Angeles temporary housing site called the Hollywood Studio Club. But by day, she can still be found at a highway off-ramp with her homeless fiance and a less rule-bound street community.
The sheer cost of building permanent homes with social services in one of the priciest real estate markets in the United States is one of the biggest obstacles. There is also opposition from homeowner groups to building such homes in their neighborhoods. The homeless have set up tents on sidewalks and in neglected corners of nearly every section of the nation’s second-largest city, from wealthy Bel-Air to working-class San Pedro.
Christina Bojorquez , 26, and Everett Gutierrez, 31, who are homeless, pet dog Ordo outside their tent in Los Angeles, California, October 14, 2019. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson In Los Angeles County, the mortality rate among homeless people has increased for the last five years, with more than 1,000 dying in 2018 from such causes as heart disease and overdosing on drugs, according to the county Department of Public Health.
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