Orange County is making the same hapless mistakes on homelessness that L.A. did a decade ago
Orange County is making the same hapless mistakes on homelessness that L.A. did a decade ago
- April 10, 2018
- Research by Goldberg and Snow, sociology via the Los Angeles Times, April 10, 2018
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In fact, homeless people in Orange County, for the most part, are not "strangers"
who migrated there from another part of the world. A 2017 UC Irvine study, commissioned
by Orange County United Way, found that 68% of homeless people had lived in the county
for 10 years or longer. [Subscription required, you can request an electronic copy
of the article by sending an email to communications@uci.edu.]
For the full story, please visit http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-oc-homeless-housing-20180410-story.html.
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