[#1: First Short Report- donations]
Hey Team, Shalom!
Just a note that thus far, we have raised $ 45.00. Only $`12,000 more to go. Your donations are going a long way to preserve these lovely women and their children by gaining for them safe, decent, secure, and productive dwelling places.
When we expressed to them that we have begun this project, they were and are so grateful for your participation.
Please do pass this along to your families, friends, and associates, so that we may make these for obvious reasons, “invisible” ladies, become “visible” so that we may reach them, as enough people are not aware of their plight.
In the meanwhile please see the below article: Over 14,000 Vehicles In LA County Are Used As Homes By David Wagner Published Jul 6, 2023, 5:00 AM https://tedhayes.us/wdicars/ In TV news segments and election season political ads, images of sprawling tent encampments have become the face of a worsening homelessness crisis in Los Angeles. But tents did not play a significant role in the past year’s 9% rise in homelessness across L.A. County.
In fact, the number of tents used as dwellings on L.A. streets fell slightly, from 4,304 in 2022 to 4,293 in 2023. Instead, the increase reported in this year’s homeless count was disproportionately driven by people living in vehicles.
The number of cars used as shelters rose 16%, and the number of vans skyrocketed 44%. Unhoused people in L.A. County used more than 14,000 vehicles (including RVs) as dwellings according to the region’s 2023 count, compared with about 9,300 tents or makeshift shelters.
“It’s not surprising that the population continues to grow, because we’re just doing very little to address it,” said Madeline Brozen, deputy director of the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies and lead researcher on a project centered on vehicular homelessness in L.A.
By David Wagner Published Jul 6, 2023, 5:00 AM