The Brief
- John Alle, a Santa Monica business owner, offers one-way flights to reunite homeless individuals in Los Angeles with their families.
- The program requires participants to have an ID and someone to meet them at their destination airport.
- Alle believes this approach is more effective than temporary housing and targets those recently homeless.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Calif. – A business owner in Santa Monica is offering to buy homeless people one-way flights out of Los Angeles to reunite with their loved ones.
“I’ll leave this here with a phone number,” John Alle told a man sleeping on the street Thursday. “It has a phone number you can call if you ever want to reunite with your family or hometown.”
Alle believes the current system for the homeless across Los Angeles isn’t working. He believes reunifying the homeless with their family or close friends could help turn their lives around.…