Growing up in Los Angeles, I watched how the sidewalk across the street from my house slowly filled up with tents. Over time, I started to see the people inside the tents as neighbors — but is this normal? All of LA has grown so disturbingly comfortable with people sleeping on the street.
Instead of focusing on my “neighbors” and the larger homelessness crisis, Mayor Karen Bass is pursuing a $2.6 billion project to expand the Los Angeles Convention Center to “revitalize the Downtown area… and show LA is ready to compete and win on the global stage.”
How about this? Instead, Mayor Bass’s massive budget for the Convention Center expansion must be reallocated to address the city’s housing and homelessness crises…