L.A. Homeless

Upon reading about the downtown Los Angeles businesses and their disapproval of the expansion of homeless shelters in the area, I found in myself a tremendous annoyance. I was disgusted with the selfishness of those local proprietors.

There are now 35,000-plus homeless wandering the streets of Los Angeles and its suburbs. Many of these people have lost jobs due to this economic crisis. Many of them are skilled and coherent. Perhaps instead of the “push-them-away” attitudes of the business people, they should think about setting up rehabilitation and retraining workshops, and/or hiring these people in their establishments.

You can’t solve a very unfortunate problem by relocating people. It just doesn’t go away. But you can educate them and provide them with a chance to afford their own housing and simple human comforts.

CAROLYN BROWN

Los Angeles