L.A. County Supervisors looking at the $400 million a year agency overseeing the homeless issue

In this February 12th, 2020  news report, the L.A. County Supervisors are looking to rethink, and possibly restructure the organization developed to deal with homelessness.  The agency, LAHSA, over sees $400 million a year, was created in 1993, and yet homelessness continues to increase. 

In today's world, homelessness is a major demographic problem, huge numbers of people in our society gets into situations where they can no longer afford to live a "normal life."  Once you're in any type of homeless situation, and there are many different levels of homelessness, it's hard to get back on track.  I know, I've struggled with it for years. 

Homeless shelters themselves are an idea from 80-90 years ago, when only a tiny percentage of people became homeless, and largely for personal issues.  In today's world, it's a completely different situation, our society is getting harder and harder to survive in for people working low or medium wage jobs.  There are a whole series of large scale, long term trends involved.  Traditional homeless shelters aren't not a serious way to really address today's huge number of people struggling financially.  The underlying issue is how to help tens of thousands of people make some kind of decent living again, so they can afford housing, or how to care for the huge number of older people with serious health issues, who can't work anymore.  Homeless shelters don't really address either of these underlying issues. 

More than 1,000 homeless people died in L.A. last year

This video is a P.R. piece, but it gives you a look at how horrible the situation is in the infamous Skid row area of L.A..   This video was put out by ReasonTV, part of the Reason Foundation, a Libertarian Think Tank, which gets funding from David Koch, among other sources.  A quick Google search showed me that.  It appears the Sprung Structures promoted in this video also have ties to Koch Industries, though I can't be sure.  This gives you a picture of the homelessness industry, and the ulterior motives and interconnection that are a part of the homeless issue at nearly every level.

That said, this was put out last month (December 2019), so it's recent, and it tells us that over 1,000 people died on the streets of Los Angeles last year.  That's about 4 times as many as people who die annually from homicide in L.A..  After seeing this, and the article below, I put a post on Facebook about this fact.  After seeing my post mentioning that 1,000 homeless people died in L.A. last year, one guy I didn't know commented, "How many more to go?"  That attitude is another of the big issues with homelessness, the dehumanization of homeless people that has grown dramatically over the past couple decades, and has really aggravated the issue. 

Here's an article from The Guardian that also mentions the fact that 1,000 homeless people died on the streets of L.A..  The Guardian has written a lot of great material on homelessness.