http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/06/los_angeles_ranked_1_place_to_live_by_homeless_people.htmlJune 13, 2015
Los Angeles Ranked #1 Place to Live by Homeless People
By Newsmachete
If it's Tuesday, you should hate the police, if it's Wednesday, you should hate white people, if it's Thursday, you should hate men, and if it's Friday, it's time for some good old fashioned class envy. And so, appropriately enough, the New York Times had an article talking about the enormous swelling population of the homeless in Los Angeles and it's predictable causes.
And so what is responsible for this increase in homelessness? The Democratic City Council? The Democratic Mayor? Decades of Democratic Party rule in Los Angeles? The Democratic Governor? The Democratic President?
No, it's people who work for a living. The Times is claiming that gentrification, the reclamation of old, dirty, dangerous neighborhoods, is pushing people into homelessness.
“It’s all being gentrified,” said Alice Callaghan, an advocate for the homeless." It’s not drugs that are putting these people out on the streets — it’s the housing.”
The sheer number of people living on the streets and out of doors makes L.A. the homeless capital of the nation,” said Jerry Jones, the executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless. That distinction, to a considerable extent, is due to a temperate climate that has long been a great draw of Southern California, for those with or without homes.
“I mostly came for the weather,” said Gloria Davis, 57, who said she was facing eviction and a return to the streets from her latest low-cost apartment just off Skid Row. She smiled up at the warm afternoon sun. “Give me this weather all year round,” she said. “You can’t find this in New York. You can’t find this in Miami.”
On the one hand, the article claims that gentrification is causing homelessness. But in the section quoted above, it sounds more like Los Angeles is a magnet, that homeless people move to LA because LA is the place to be--if you're homeless!
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