Hollywood has never been as dominated by homelessness as skid row, but in both places you can find the stark juxtaposition of thriving commerce and intractable collapse.
Hollywood trends younger, at least in some quarters, and for this series I focused mostly on that demographic.
Second, plenty of good work is done daily by outreach workers on the front lines, and by many other service providers, including the LAPD detective you’ll read about in Part 3 of this series. But it’s as if they’re doing triage on a beachhead as more tsunamis barrel toward them. No certainty any of that will happen, but it’s nice to see a few elected officials wake up from their naps. The question is, what took them so long?
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