Unclaimed bodies, Fired Parole Chief, CIA Conspiracy, And Ban on Lofts

What do all of these current issues have in common? Homelessness is tied to each of them.

The LA Times reports today that the County’s morgue can’t handle the number of corpses that need to be stored there. The building is designed to hold 300-350 bodies, but they usually have over 400 bodies… And many of these unclaimed bodies are people who are homeless.

It was also reported today that the State Parole Chief was fired. One of the purported reasons for his firing was the placement of so many paroled sex offenders near Disneyland. Another reason… the stomping death of the homeless woman in downtown “Skid Row” by a parolee released from jail.

The one-year ban on converting low-cost residential hotels into high-end lofts in downtown Los Angeles is a good thing. The reason for such a ban by the L.A. City Council… to make sure the poor and homeless who live in these residential hotels are not pushed out onto the streets.

And finally… here is a bizarre article on the web. It says that the CIA “helped spread cocaine in black ghettos” with the drug profits used to fund the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contra army in the early 1980s. The article says that this CIA conspiracy is the real reason why there are African American homeless on our streets addicted to drugs.

Sadly, homelessness is interwoven within many societal issues today…