{"id":2875,"date":"2021-12-06T19:43:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T03:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/?p=2875"},"modified":"2021-12-07T19:57:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T03:57:18","slug":"even-la-voters-are-fed-up-with-the-response-to-homelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2021\/12\/06\/even-la-voters-are-fed-up-with-the-response-to-homelessness\/","title":{"rendered":"Even LA Voters Are Fed Up With The Response To Homelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"
[Benjamin Oreskes, David Lauter, LA Times] IMAGE<\/a><\/pre>\n
A new survey of LA County voters\u2019 attitudes on homelessness has highlighted an ideological gulf between local leaders and the people they represent.<\/p>\n
Many attitudes about homelessness have not changed.<\/p>\n
One that appears to have shifted involves the trade-off between spending money on temporary shelter or long-term housing.<\/p>\n
Asked whether officials should focus on \u201cshort-term shelter sites\u201d or \u201clong-term housing for homeless people with services,\u201d voters by 57%-30% opted for the short-term solutions. In a similarly worded question two years ago, opinions were nearly evenly divided.<\/p>\n
… A key finding: Nearly four in 10 voters said that homeless people in their neighborhood made them feel significantly unsafe.<\/p>\n
… the city and county cannot wait for enough such housing to be built and must proceed quickly with interventions that get people off the street and into shelters faster.<\/p>\n
… One thing voters and representatives agree on is the severity of the crisis. 94% of county voters view homelessness as a serious or very serious problem … But voters are extremely frustrated with politicians\u2019 response. The vast majority believe the situation is getting worse.<\/p>\n
Read more at the Los Angeles Times.
\nhttps:\/\/www.latimes.com\/homeless-housing\/story\/2021-12-01\/la-voters-are-frustrated-impatient-over-persistent-homelessness-crisis\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“Candidates are keenly aware that homelessness will be top of mind, staking out positions on the issue and, in some cases, preparing ballot measures to highlight their stands.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,22,1],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/book-JTHH-AE-cover.jpg",896,890,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/book-JTHH-AE-cover-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/book-JTHH-AE-cover-600x596.jpg",600,596,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/book-JTHH-AE-cover-768x763.jpg",640,636,true],"large":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/book-JTHH-AE-cover.jpg",640,636,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/book-JTHH-AE-cover.jpg",896,890,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/book-JTHH-AE-cover.jpg",896,890,false],"darknews-slider-full":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/book-JTHH-AE-cover-896x720.jpg",896,720,true],"darknews-featured":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/book-JTHH-AE-cover.jpg",896,890,false],"darknews-medium":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/book-JTHH-AE-cover-720x530.jpg",720,530,true],"darknews-medium-square":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/book-JTHH-AE-cover-350x350.jpg",350,350,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"News MoLo","author_link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"Crime<\/a> Government<\/a> News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2875"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2879,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions\/2879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}