When Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti took office in 2013, the city was home to 22,993 homeless residents [...].
The number of unhoused people living within city limits now stands at 36,300—and 75 percent are unsheltered.
With homelessness up 58 percent on his watch, the mayor struck an apologetic tone in a letter sent to residents Tuesday.
— Curbed LA
"As your mayor, I take full responsibility for our response to this crisis," wrote Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti in an open letter this week. "And like everyone who has seen families in tents or spoken to a homeless veteran in need, I am both heartbroken and impatient. While we have housed more homeless Angelenos than ever before in our city’s history, it’s not enough. We must respond like it’s an earthquake — and do more, faster."
Garcetti's response follows the release of sobering statistics on extreme poverty in Los Angeles County; counting nearly 59,000 homeless people countywide and 36,300 within the City of LA.
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He'll "take full responsibility" but won't authorize specific actions that would alleviate at least some of the worst of this crisis.
He's managed to surpass the worthlessness of the last bloviating empty suit who occupied that office-- no easy task.
Good for him to take reposibility. Now what he should do is let some homeless people stay in his house until he fixes it. He and his wife can live in a motel until then.
Meanwhile LACMA is spending $650m on the museum. LAX is spending another $1.4b on concourses. Then there is $1b for Oceanwide Plaza, $500m for the Ribbon of Light, and a slew of luxury residential projects.
U$A!
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