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Los Angeles is known worldwide as a city of glamour, but on a visit This Week , U.S. President Donald Trump said that the growing homelessness problem could also "can" destroy. So how did LA end up in this situation?

What is the extent of the problem is?

you don't have to go far to see in Los Angeles , the people are sleeping rough. Many spend their nights in temporary accommodation, locations, or others, for human habitation - on The Street , in an abandoned building or a transport hub.

The Number of homeless people in Los Angeles have grown by 33% over the last four years. Each night that has found the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.

a total of 85% of Los Angeles homeless adults without children, 70% are men and 44% are black, although only 8% of Los Angeles residents.

And Los Angeles has the largest number in the United States of homeless people who sleep in shelters:

What are the main causes?

money is the root of The City 's homeless Crisis - jobs that pay too little and housing that costs too much. Half of homeless people say they have no living room, because you lost your Job and can't pay the rent.

Only 21% of the homeless people in The City of-report a mental disability, compared with 55% of those rates of mental disorders increase the homeless for more, which, like the homeless for more.

Blue-collar workers in Los Angeles were able to earn middle-class wages and buy houses up to the end of the Cold War , nearly 30 years ago. The government sacrificing military spending meant The National defense industry, concentrated in Los Angeles , shrank by More Than half.

Well-paid jobs were replaced by minimum-wage jobs.

Getty ImagesLos Angeles County

" Selected statistics 2018

10,105,518 population

3,295,198 households

$61,015 average annual household income, 2013-17

$1,322 Median gross monthly rental 2013-17

52,765 homeless

sources: United States Census Bureau, and the LA Homeless Services Authority

few new apartments, particularly the lower-cost rental housing has built in the last 30 years, although Los Angeles , the population grew by 15%.

The result has been steady increases in rents, which have plastic housing unaffordable for many working-poor families.

Only a small percentage of housing is subsidized by the government. The vast majority of rental housing is privately owned and the rent on the free market rate.

- and precariously-housed persons at High Risk of homelessness.

What Row is Skid?

homeless people are today in almost all parts of The City and business districts in all of Los Angeles . This was not the case a decade ago, when most of the homeless population, in an area known as Skid Row .

Skid Row , is a 1-sq-km (250 acres) area, located just 500m to the East of the City Hall , although it is not as strong as earlier.

In 1976, representatives of The City established Skid Row as an unofficial "containment zone", where the homeless, women's shelters, and services will not be tolerated. As a result, most of the visitors to the parts of Los Angeles and attracted numerous visitors from all over The World never saw a homeless person.

The recession of 1981, it came to rising unemployment and the onset of The Crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles . The Number of homeless people in Skid Row grew beyond the capacity of the shelters and even the roads to accommodate them. Many moved to other areas, but in General, those who from the point of view of The Police .

Outside of Skid Row , police vigorously by the laws of The City , so that it is a crime to sit, lie down or sleep in public space.

the Subsequent recession and the continuing loss of jobs for unskilled workers, spurred by the continued growth in homelessness.

What is happening elsewhere in the United States ?

Although New York has more homeless people, it is The Number not in the shelters, which makes Los Angeles stand out. Only about one in seven homeless adults in Los Angeles has access to a shelter Bed and a fifth of all protect the homeless people in the United States live in Los Angeles County.

Other major U.S. cities that have less homeless people on The Streets , because they offer more living space. For example, in Boston, only 3% of homeless people are only 5% protect and in New York .

As the residents of Los Angeles feel about homelessness?

The reaction accommodated Angelenos were mixed. To pay on The One hand, in 2016 and 2017, the voters overwhelmingly approved new taxes for more housing and services for unhoused people. But there were only a few visible progress, in part because of the house owners, who don't want the homeless housing or services anywhere in their communities.

One of the fiscal measures approved by the voters, the $1. 2 billion (£964m) for the construction of 10,000 residential units for homeless people. The most recent forecasts suggest, it may be enough for only 7,000. To grow meanwhile, homelessness continues, and both housed and unhoused residents are an expression of frustration and anger.

organizations that serve the homeless are urging The Public to be patient and to recognize housing, and services to be provided must, in each municipality.

considering, However, both The City and the county of Los Angeles to limit legal measures dramatically, where people will be able to sleep, to escape arrest. Those who in the name of homeless people who say that would remove the only protection that you have.

An approach, supported by the two supporters of the homeless, and unions is homelessness as an income problem rather than a housing supply problem-and to jobs for adults of working age.

the work is being done to identify adults, the long-term homeless. And they are given housing and formed to be held for the jobs that are open to you.

Los Angeles -spike in homelessness has been years in the development. The question is, how the tide can turn quickly, and how.

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Daniel Flemings, President of the non-profit research organization, you can

Gary Blasi is a Published professor of law emeritus at the

by Ian Westbrook

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Source of news: bbc.com