LA TIMES HOW LA HOMELESS CRISIS GOT SO BAD by Shelby Grad and Gale Holland
"The number of tents, makeshift encampments and vehicles occupied by homeless people soared 85%, to 9,535, according to biennial figures from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority."
Experts blame soaring rents, low wages and stubbornly high unemployment.
They point to gentrification downtown and in Venice, where cheap hotel rooms, motels and single-room apartments -- once the last refuge of the poor -- are being eliminated
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