Weekly thoughts

This weeks class was slightly challenging since the schedule got moved around. I really enjoyed the LA Times article. It was interesting to read that a group of people relax on the cities lawn to get away from the madness. They are perfectly fine being right next to the police station as long as they can have some peace. I got really sad reading about how La has a housing crisis. I grew up going to La on the weekends and I saw some of the Homeless but never to the extent as it is now. It must be extremely difficult for the people living in Korea town. I would hate to walk outside my house and have feces and rotting food right at my feet. The homeless have nowhere else to go because there is just not enough room in the shelters which is extremely sad. I found it amazing that voters passed to tax themselves 4.6 billion dollars. All that money will go to building 10,000 houses. This will be over a 10 year span. With all the money coming in to help homeless the outreach teams have been quadrupling  which is amazing because change is happening. With more outreach means that groups are coming together to help so with that said they have expanded the hours for shelters in the winter, added 600 new beds to the shelters, and have been giving out more vouchers for hotels. All this is allowing homeless to at least have somewhere warm they can rest at on a cold winter night.