Skidrow - Homeless can Sleep on Sidewalks 9pm to 6am


	Skidrow - Homeless can Sleep on Sidewalks 9pm to 6am

urbanlife

11-19-2007 9:17 AM

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homeless, street, la, skid row, arrest

urbanlife says:

Let me do the math: 1,250 new beds and 74,000 homeless people.....

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border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/us/31skidrow.html?_r=1&oref=slogin"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/1A21CB5B-72DF-443A-8CA2-57BE6926DAFB" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/us/31skidrow.html?_r=1&oref=slogin">the neighborhood’s homeless have also been guaranteed some respite from the police.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/us/31skidrow.html?_r=1&oref=slogin">Los Angeles agreed on Oct. 10 not to appeal a federal court order and will instead allow sleeping on the sidewalk, at least until the city provides 1,250 new beds in low-income housing.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/us/31skidrow.html?_r=1&oref=slogin"> there are 17,000 shelter beds in Los Angeles County, most of them within the city, there are some 74,000 homeless across the county’s 4,060 square miles</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/us/31skidrow.html?_r=1&oref=slogin">As a result, the shelters remain full every night</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/us/31skidrow.html?_r=1&oref=slogin">Skid Row’s street people have been watching their territory shrink for years, as downtown developers open the long-neglected area to gentrification. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/us/31skidrow.html?_r=1&oref=slogin"> Much of Skid Row, however, remains a place of wandering drunks and drug addicts, with homeless people lining urine-stained sidewalks in sleeping bags, cardboard shelters and tents.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; 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