To the editor: I’ve the privilege of interacting with people who find themselves unhoused day-after-day within the hospital the place I work as a medical social employee. I wish to assume I’ve an excessive amount of empathy for many who can’t navigate the circuitous and irritating social service system in our metropolis in an effort to afford housing within the very costly L.A. market. (“Encampment stood for 5 years. He added windows and a garden to his home. Now it’s gone,” Feb. 24)
However once I learn unhoused resident Alejandro Diaz’s quote, “In all my time right here, none of us have bothered anybody,” I cringe and I urge to vary.
Our public areas aren’t designed for homeless camps, and I’m outraged on the proprietary perspective evinced by Diaz’s sentiments. Regardless of how proficient a builder Diaz is, I don’t wish to see his unpermitted construction in a spot the place I take a stroll or journey my bike.
The town ought to put Diaz to work setting up inexpensive housing, in an acceptable house, for himself and his displaced neighbors.
Randy Farhi, Los Angeles
