L.A. isn't the only city with warm weather, poverty, drug addiction and crime. But it's the only city with homelessness this extreme.
When it comes to homelessness, almost every story pivots to California. That was the subplot as I traveled to Jackson, Miss., Detroit and Jacksonville, Fla., this summer. I was reporting on why homelessness is so much worse in Los Angeles than in other parts of the country, even as other cities also combat poverty, drug addiction and crime — and enjoy warm weather like L.A.
“I used to live in Bakersfield,” she said. “Unfortunately. It was a horrid place. I was homeless there, too.”Tommie Brown, a homeless outreach coordinator with Stewpot Community Services, visits with a homeless man in Jackson, Miss. But Brown did not mock Los Angeles. He came away from his visits inspired by the workers he met at the Dream Center, an L.A. charity, and how they approached people by asking them about their aspirations.
“Los Angeles was really groundbreaking in realizing the biggest availability of land is in people’s backyard,” said Nazworth, whose nonprofit group focuses on finding long-term housing and services for homeless people.
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