Will Cold Weather Move People To Resolve Homelessness?

Yesterday, the lows in Los Angeles hit 36 degrees. Not great for those of us outside, shopping or eating out. Devastating for those among us in Los Angeles who have to literally sleep on the streets.

A few more degrees colder, and it could snow in “sunny” Los Angeles.

On a day when we honor Martin Luther King Jr., I wonder if any public officials will mention that the “crisis” of poverty and injustice is still going on today—more than thirty years after King stood up to fight the same injustices?

People sleeping on streets because they are too poor to live in housing is simply an injustice in a country that is the most rich and powerful in the world.

In New York City, people who are homeless at least have the “right” to shelter. Here in Los Angeles, could we at least give people who are on the streets the “right” to be protected, especially when it gets as cold here as in New York?

I wonder if Cold Weather in “sunny” Los Angeles will move people into action?

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