Homelessness: Why Los Angeles Isn’t Detroit on the Pacific

A fire from a homeless encampment creates smoke in Los Angeles on Jan. 20, 2022. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

Commentary

This one left my head shaking. The mainstream media seem to be getting worse. Here’s the Los Angeles Times’s headline, “Why Detroit, America’s poorest city, doesn’t have an L.A.-sized homeless problem.” The main reason is only slightly mentioned: “The public tends to blame L.A.’s high levels of homelessness on poverty, drug use, crime or even Southern California’s warm weather.”