To the editor: Per visitor contributor Brian Levy’s latest article, 50,000 individuals reside on Los Angeles County’s streets (“L.A. has now laid a real foundation to address homelessness,” Might 21). Los Angeles’ homelessness assist system completely rehouses about 20,000 individuals yearly. Within the meantime, greater than 60,000 individuals change into homeless yearly. This implies the present insurance policies and applications are by no means going to unravel the issue regardless of the billions of {dollars} being spent yearly.
Isn’t it time to be extra inventive in arising with extra sensible and doubtlessly efficient methods to unravel the issue? It jogs my memory of the saying, “Madness is doing the identical factor time and again and anticipating totally different outcomes.”
Charles Blankson, Menifee, Calif.
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To the editor: Levy says that, a decade or so into Los Angeles’ homeless disaster, L.A. County’s Board of Supervisors has now outlined “a set of bold and achievable objectives.” Levy presents this as trigger for celebration. For me, it represents a trigger for dismay.
Communities across the nation have had broadly differing levels of success on this difficulty. The officers addressing homelessness in L.A. have had 10 years to discover probably the most profitable applications and finest practices elsewhere, consider these most scalable and appropriate for L.A. after which develop and implement a program commensurate with the means at hand.
Levy writes, “aim clarification is an important early step.” Proper. Ten years on, the county is taking an important early step. In what universe ought to this be cheered?
Shelley Wagers, Los Angeles
