Despite approving billions in funds to fight the problem,Los Angeles has seen its homeless population continue to grow. Is there anything politicians can do?Sign up to our monthly Outside in America newsletterIn Los Angeles, the more the politicians push to solve the city’s festering homelessness crisis, or the worse it seems to procure.
The city leadership has taken one bold step after another: restructuring the budget to free more than $100m a year in homelessness funding,sponsoring one voter-approved initiative to raise more than $1bn for housing and backing another regional proposal to raise the sales tax and generate an estimated $3.5bn for support services over the next decade. And yet the tent cities continue to proliferate, in wealthy neighborhoods and destitute, and by the beach,the airport, the Hollywood Walk of Fame and within view of City Hall itself.
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Source: guardian.co.uk