LA is broke, and for many Angelenos, the cracks are evident.
Twenty-three-year-old Andres Perkins says there is an intersection in Reseda’s business district that floods every year when it rains, and there are broken sidewalks everywhere.
It’s been like this for years, Perkins said. He recalled watching his grandfather fix one of those broken sidewalks outside their Encino home, more than 15 years ago, after a woman walking by got distracted by a guava tree and tripped over a sidewalk that had been buckled by tree roots…