Res Ipsa wrote:Markk, the same forces that are increasing homelessness are also at work in Seattle. You keep talking about your one-year 23% increase. We had a 21% increase the same year. Our concentration of homeless people is comparable or greater. The two main differences are: LA is a lot bigger, so there are more total numbers of homeless. And we shelter double the percentage that you do. Unsheltered people tend to set up encampments because they need a place to sleep at night.
Are you stating Seattle is better and hiding the homeless...even though they hav eth same problem. I am glad Seattle has more beds.
Can you share your link with me, in that what I have read LA may have more beds? It is all over the place and hard to figure out, so give me your link.
Read this...
The agency tracks how many people use the shelters night-to-night. It found that L.A. County shelters were at 90 percent capacity from October 2015 through March of 2016. City-funded shelters were, on average, only 57 percent full.
https://www.scpr.org/news/2016/04/28/60 ... reats-fal/It appears Seattle may have more beds, but LA has a surplus of beds? Go figure.
Karl made a great point that drug Addicts and those that drink, would rather stay on the street...there are rules in shelters...which lends to the article, and to my point about drugs.
Don't take life so seriously in that " sooner or later we are just old men in funny clothes" "Tom 'T-Bone' Wolk"
