To the editor: How fascinating. On the entrance web page of Friday’s print version of the Los Angeles Occasions, you had an in depth article concerning the Saban Group Clinic on wheels. The piece was a really unhappy take a look at the lengths homeless folks must go to get their well being handled.
Then, proper beneath I noticed your article a couple of $50-million apartment on the market in West Hollywood. The patrons will probably be attended to by “private concierges,” as a substitute of the docs and nurses offering look after unhoused folks.
What a dichotomy. If anybody ever doubted the inequities rampant in our tradition, all they must do is learn Friday’s entrance web page. These two articles proper subsequent to one another stated all of it.
Linda Cooper, Studio Metropolis
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To the editor: Individuals on the bottom stage are having a tough time paying for a roof over their heads and worrying about local weather change destroying what little they've. There are extra homeless folks than I’ve ever seen wandering the streets. All the pieces prices greater than it used to.
In the meantime, we now have a bunch of wealthy folks in sun shades (at evening), up on their lofty perch munching on caviar and truffles and contributing to international warming by flying in gardenias from the San Francisco Bay Space, attempting to get some billionaire (who’s undoubtedly woefully underpaying their workers) to drop more cash on a second or third pied-à-terre.
The wealthy aren’t paying their fair proportion of taxes, leaving the burden on the remainder of us. Companies and billionaires are probably the most egregious contributors to local weather change, but blame us for taking showers greater than 5 minutes lengthy.
We’re at a breaking level. Have they discovered nothing from the French Revolution? Except they modify their methods and really trickle down some shekels for the remainder of us, we’re on the verge of repeating historical past. And I’ll be standing by with the popcorn.
Sol Taylor, Riverside
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To the editor: Thanks in your persevering with delicate and compassionate reporting on our homeless inhabitants.
I don’t know what has me extra upset: the individuals who botched the Part 8 housing voucher system, or the heartbreaking story of Jose Luis Camargo. Most upsetting is understanding that his grownup kids haven't come to his support and that he has been deserted to a level by a sister.
Realities like these make me proceed to lose religion in humanity. We have to do higher.
Rosemary Chiaverini, Sherman Oaks
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