World Socialist Web Site Highlights Los Angeles’ Homeless Problem

You know our city has a problem with homelessness when a small website (somewhere out of left field) highlights this human dilemma. Here's the site.

Downtown Los Angeles’ Central City East (also known as “Skid Row”) has been getting press right and left—whether it likes it or not. Starting off with media attention on homeless “dumping,” this small area of Los Angeles has become synonymous with “homeless America.”

The article reads: “Skid Row is a not-so-hidden 50-block area in the shadow of the LA downtown skyline. It has the largest concentration of homeless in the country: between 8,000 and 11,000 people live here under appalling conditions. Recently LAPD Chief William Bratton referred to it in the press as ‘Dante’s Inferno.’”

The big question is… will all of this media attention force community leaders to actually do something about “Dante’s Inferno”? Or will all of this attention just go away, and the problem will persist?