To the editor: I’ve the privilege of interacting with people who find themselves unhoused day-after-day within the hospital the place I work as a medical social employee. I prefer to suppose I’ve quite a lot of empathy for individuals who can not navigate the circuitous and irritating social service system in our metropolis in an effort to afford housing within the very costly L.A. market. (“Encampment stood for 5 years. He added windows and a garden to his home. Now it’s gone,” Feb. 24)
However after I learn unhoused resident Alejandro Diaz’s quote, “In all my time right here, none of us have bothered anybody,” I cringe and I encourage to vary.
Our public areas are usually not designed for homeless camps, and I’m outraged on the proprietary perspective evinced by Diaz’s sentiments. Irrespective of how proficient a builder Diaz is, I don’t need to see his unpermitted construction in a spot the place I take a stroll or experience my bike.
Town ought to put Diaz to work setting up reasonably priced housing, in an applicable house, for himself and his displaced neighbors.
Randy Farhi, Los Angeles
