Los Angeles Is Spending $4.5 Billion To End Homelessness

Harvey Franco has lived in a grey tent pitched in downtown Los Angeles for 11 years. Every morning, he wakes up at 5:30 to dismantle it and wait. Around 8:30 a.m., a group of outreach workers from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority will arrive, and ask Franco and everyone on the streets in his neighborhood how they can help him. He thinks it’s a crock.

A little over two years ago, Los Angeles committed $4.5 billion toward ending homelessness — the most money voters anywhere in the country have pledged toward the problem. At the last count, there were more than 52,000 homeless people in the county.

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