LOS ANGELES—Nearly every Los Angeles resident encounters homelessness on a day-to-day basis. Encampments line neighborhoods, parks, and outside of businesses. The fire department said 54 percent of fires reported in Los Angeles were started in homeless encampments last summer. And residents are fed up, according to a new survey.
LA residents say they don’t trust city and county officials to adequately address the spiraling homelessness crisis plaguing the streets, according to the survey (pdf) published Feb. 10 by a nonpartisan coalition of civic leaders and community members.
