Holiday Sale and RECAP: Homelessness in Los Angeles Series with Ruth Roofless

Published December 1, 2024.

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The story will soon follow on my co-author Ruth Roofless on Substack as well, whom I’m highly encouraging you to support as well. Together, as one supporter told me, we’re dissecting this issue in a way that hasn’t been done before in the City of Angels. Ruth will soon add the bells and whistles, as they say, including a narrated version to this latest edition in what is now a 10-part series on this issue. To support Ruth directly, you can also find her on Venmo @rooflesser or reach her via Gmail.

Hundreds of hours have gone into producing these stories, which go above and beyond what you’ll find in the average news story. Together, we have developed many new sources of information. Next up will be additional coverage on the latest action in relation to the WLA VA lawsuit, which is also covered excellently on Home of the Brave. Sometimes people will say they’re tired of hearing about homelessness, even being “beaten over the head with it,” and in the national political discourse this has become wrapped in rhetoric about “Democratic-run cities” and criminalization.

Any approach that lacks compassion and seeks to cast people as “dangerously deranged” as President-elect Donald Trump has done is unlikely to succeed. Even as Los Angeles has struggled to find a single-model solution to this issue, which is rooted in economics often as much as mental health or addictions, we know that the City of Angels is capable of getting it right on this issue, with care and services, not just sweeps or incarceration. You’ll never get so far with anybody as you will treating people with dignity. So we hope you’ll support independent journalism in Los Angeles.

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Part 116: “A Failure of Moral Judgment” – Judge David Carter and the Crisis of the Unhoused

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Part 111: The West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Campus – Housing is Healing is a Battle

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Part 107: Something is Better Than Nothing – The Unhoused and the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics

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Part 102: The Heartbreak Industry of Los Angeles - Failures in Litigating the Crisis of the Unhoused

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Part 88: The LA Alliance Hearings Continue – Can The Homelessness Crisis Be Solved?

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Part 86: The LA Alliance Comes Up Empty - Understanding Justice and Care for the Unhoused in Los Angeles

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