Letters to the Editor: Is Rick Caruso’s ‘short-term’ homelessness plan what L.A. needs?
I’d first encountered the “short-term homeless” concept of the homeless in 2007.
It was explained as such:
“There is no other way to describe the homeless crisis that’s gripping Los Angeles. We are currently experiencing a ‘short-term homeless’ situation.
The term “short-term” refers to the fact that the homeless population has grown to 50,000 in the last two years.”
Over the past eight years, at least two different programs have been launched using this concept to address the homelessness crisis:
“People without a couch to sleep on are referred to as “short-term” homeless.
But what’s the problem?
The problems are complex and complex, yet we can reduce the level of suffering.
How? Well, first we have to understand the problem.
The short-term homeless problem is a result of a major problem that has been developing in our society for years. The problem is the decline of the American middle class — the people who built this country and who own the business.
The middle class in America has gone into a deep decline. The rich have become much richer and the middle class much poorer. We need to help the middle class. We need to build the middle class back up. But this is not possible while we continue to have a society where the old rich are getting richer and the new poor are getting poorer.
For that reason, we need to build a society that does not allow them to do that.
We need to stop the decline of our middle class and that’s why it’s important that we develop a solution.
There’s been a great deal of debate about