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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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josh.correira

The author is Sonja D. Schmid who is a professor of Science and Technology in Society at Virginia Tech. Her area of expertise is the social aspect of science and technology, esp. during the Cold War, as well as science and technology policy, science and democracy, qualitative studies of risk, energy policy, and nuclear emergency response. As a professor and researcher she has does relevant studies on Fukushima and nuclear disasters relevant to the DSTS network. One such article titled "The unbearable ambiguity of knowing: making sense of Fukushima" is cited below:

Schmid, Sonja D. "The Unbearable Ambiguity of Knowing: Making Sense of Fukushima." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. N.p., 2013. Web.