THE BOTTOM LINE – While Thousands Sleep on Los Angeles Streets, Taxpayers Are Paying for Hundreds of Vacant Apartments
Los Angeles taxpayers have spent years being told that homelessness is the city’s greatest humanitarian crisis. They have been asked to support new taxes, larger budgets, and an ever-growing network of agencies tasked with addressing the problem.
What they were not told is that hundreds of taxpayer-funded apartments would sit empty while thousands of homeless individuals continue sleeping on sidewalks, in parks, under freeway overpasses, and in vehicles throughout the city…