Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Homes For The Homeless

Over the years Santa Monica has had a love/hate relationship with its large homeless population. However, since 2007 civil rights activists and Santa Monica's residents have been fighting with the homeless against persecution and harassment by police. This has led to the development of numerous low-income housing developments, so that these people can have a place to call home. In one of the more expensive areas of Los Angeles, these developments offer rents from $300-$400 per month... This is extremely inexpensive for Southern California in general... And I am pleased with the benchmark Santa Monica is setting. Ignoring a problem, as Santa Monica had in previous years, only makes it worse. We need to find ways to reintegrate these people back into society, and finding a place for them to live is the first step.

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