To the editor: According to the recent recent article of the guest collaborator Brian Levy, 50,000 people live in the streets of Los Angeles County (“The now has sat a real basis to address the lack of housing,” May 21). The Los Angeles home support system permanently relocates about 20,000 people each year. Meanwhile, more than 60,000 people are homeless every year. This means that current policies and programs will never solve the problem despite the billions of dollars that are spent every year.
Isn't it the time to be more creative by creating more realistic and potentially effective forms to solve the problem? It reminds me of the saying: “Madness is doing the same again and again and waiting for different results.”
Charles Blanksson, Menife, California.
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To the editor: Levy says that, a decade more or less in the homeless crisis of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Supervisors Board has now defined “a set of ambitious and attainable objectives.” Levy presents this as a reason for celebration. For me, it represents a cause of dismay.
Communities throughout the country have had widely different degrees of success in this issue. The officials who address the lack of housing in Los Angeles have been 10 years to explore the most successful programs and best practices in other places, evaluate the most scalable and adequate for and then develop and implement a program according to the media in question.
Levy writes: “The clarification of objectives is an early vital step.” Good. Ten years later, the county is taking an early vital step. In which universe this must be checked?
Shelley Wagers, Los Angeles
