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LA's Low Shelter Numbers

The number of homeless people far exceeds the number of shelter beds in Los Angeles County. This greatly differs from other major cities within the US.

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Sleeping Rough

The Homeless Population is scattered all over LA city proper and LA county, but skid row is the most popular place known for the homeless in LA.

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This article from 2009 focuses on the controversy of a garbage incenerator in the Ironbound that has sparked civil engagements to make the facility practice clean emmisions. Despite their reports of emmision reductions in 2005, the community argued that the garbage incenereator looked over many occassions where they violated those regulations, and how it still effects those communities. Here we see how the governments and people's interest don't line up.