LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Nearly every Los Angeles resident encounters homelessness on a day-to-day basis. Encampments line neighborhoods, parks, and outside of businesses. The fire department said 54 percent of fires reported in Los Angeles were started in homeless encampments last summer. And voters are fed up, according to a new survey. LA voters say they do not trust city and county officials to adequately address the spiraling homelessness crisis plaguing the streets, according to the survey (pdf) published Thursday by a nonpartisan coalition of civic leaders and community members. “Unless we stop the drugs, homelessness isn’t going anywhere. 90 percent is drugs,” one Latino voter said, according to the survey. An African American voter told pollsters: “People are taking advantage of no bail. They’re doing the crime, getting arrested then doing it again.” The survey, conducted in December 2021, presents responses from a series of focus groups put together by the …
LA Voters Have “Complete Lack of Faith” in Government to Handle Homelessness: Survey
February 10, 2022
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