To the editor: Benito Flores’ efforts in El Sereno have to be counseled (“Elderly man builds tree house to protest eviction from state-owned home,” June 3). Given the Grants Pass vs. Johnson ruling, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s persistent encampment sweeps and native sit/lie bans, what choices do the unhoused have left however to reside in bushes? The displacement of elders from our communities is merciless and sometimes quantities to a dying sentence. Absolutely Newsom is conscious that a mean of almost seven people die on the streets of L.A. each day — many of them elderly.
How highly effective it will be to see actual management from our governor. Why are there dozens of vacant houses on state-owned land amid this humanitarian disaster? In actual fact, years in the past, simply throughout the road from Flores’ dwelling, the state granted a parcel of land to the town at a reduction and it’s now a thriving group backyard. Does Newsom really imagine he can attraction his method to Washington whereas making negligible progress on our state’s central political and ethical disaster?
Zach Murray, Los Angeles
