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Report finds more than one-third of L.A. County’s homeless are black

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LOS ANGELES  – A new report highlighting the elevated levels of homelessness among black people in Los Angeles County is a “critical first step” in addressing the disparities affecting the African-American community, according to Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas.

Black people represent 9 percent of the general population in Los Angeles County yet comprise 40 percent of the population experiencing homelessness, according to a report by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority Ad Hoc Committee.

Ridley-Thomas was among more than 100 county and community leaders who gathered Monday morning to discuss the report at the California African American Museum in Exposition Park.

“This report is a critical first step to address the collective failings of systems and institutions that — de facto and de jure — have been designed to deliver the painful disparities that affect so many of our brothers and sisters,” Ridley-Thomas said. “Hard work lies ahead to counter this tragic inheritance.”

The report, which includes 67 recommendations, concludes that racism, discrimination and unconscious bias in public systems and institutions have contributed to homelessness.

Among the recommendations is that the county should work to improve data collection, analysis and collaborative research to better understand and track issues affecting black people experiencing homelessness, and to advance racially equitable policies, programs and funding across institutions, homeless service providers, and city and county agencies.

The full report can be found at https://bit.ly/2tCZflC.

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43 comments for "Report finds more than one-third of L.A. County’s homeless are black"

  1. The majority of these racists comments are coming from the old republicans, that are bitter because the demographics in America are changing.

    I really feel sorry for them. Let’s keep them on our thoughts and prayers. :).

    • The demographics are changing is like a drop in the ocean, not enough to make a change. Hence the old will remain an the rain
      will wash your brain
      the stain
      that it contained

  2. It doesn’t matter the color of ones skin when you chose to be a junkie and homeless. It’s so called reporters like this that are gunning for a race war. You want to do drugs, you suffer the consequences.

  3. All these comments about Jews, black and Hispanics are repulsive. How the hell do you sleep at night? Do you take your meds? You should, because you are completely mentally unstable. Can hate for others be so deep that your brain stops functioning but you still have a pulse? If you are attempting the use of sarcasm when you insinuate Mexicans have 20 people living in one house, you are failing miserably. Time to take time away from the typewriter and look within, because you are completely rotten to the core, and please, please, please don’t tell you that you consider yourself a Christian because the statement is laughable. May God have mercy on your soul before you take your last breath, because I can guarantee that the devil will reject your behind. I AM SICK TO MY STOMACH, WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH YOU COWARDS? HIDING BEHIND A COMPUTER SCREEN MAKES YOU BRAVE, OH PLEASE!

  4. All the very insecure, small minded people love these articles. As a Jew inwardly, I pity you, and all the fear that fills you when you type hate for anyone that you perceive as inferior to you.

  5. I am so glad that Mexicans do not blame the white man for any of his own problems. The Mexican blames himself when he acts and does stupid things like drunk driving, gang killings, rape and murder. He usually says, “I did it esay, I fd up esay. And their parent’s say. “I am sorry son; you did the crime and now must do the time.” Or “Son the cops shot you because you were doing something stupid.” Mexicans do not do massive protest like the blacks because the know it achieves nothing. They do not do marches like the blacks because it achieves nothing. There is no proof that anything was ever achieved by Martin Luther King Jr. tactics. All these things are just loud, noisy and causes everyone to put their hands over their ears to close it out. Quiet, Stealth Education is the only way to progress just ask the Jew.

    • Wait…you actually MET a Mexican? You didn’t just silently judge them from afar trying not to get their Mexican cooties on you, while quietly whispering to your velvet painting of Jesus about the injustice of the cancellation of Duck Dynasty? You, my friend, are a better man than me.

    • Guess what? The reality is age discrimination in hiring is blatant, rampant, and the laws unenforced – especially in the tech industry. No matter how much education a person has, if they reach that magic/tragic age of 39 or 40 or 45 and definitely 50, the job opportunities evaporate and your education will amount to nothing. This is a documented fact. It’s absolutely sickening and the laws need to be enforced diligently and even violently if necessary. How are people going to work until 65 or 70 if they are pushed out of the job market at 40? 40 isn’t even close to being old. Christ, the Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is 41. Imagine having a B.S. or Master’s or even Phd degree, along with years of experience and some twit that’s only 10 or 15 years younger denies a person a job based on age? Them’s fightin’ actions. Eventually it will be taken to the streets.

    • “Mexicans do not do massive protest like the blacks because the know it achieves nothing.”
      How soon we forget… there have been at least two large marches in Los Angeles in recent history where surface streets were legally shut down for immigration marches. Legally being the key. I attended one march quite by accident while on an excursion for a course I was taking. It was enlightening to see so many different groups from south of the border coming together for a common cause, and it seemed fairly peaceful and law abiding.

      • Every time you mention unruly massive protests by blacks, you forget to mention the unruly massive protests by whites. How soon we forget. Whites violent protests achieve nothing, also.

        • Are you feeling silly. It appears, Alexis, you responded to me and no where was I disregarding stupid actions by whites or others. All I countered was that indeed Mexicans (and many other Central and South American people) do and did protest and that they followed the rules for the most part.

          • No, I’m not feeling silly. This the second time you have mentioned blacks and their unruly protests, not including whites and their massive unruly protests.

          • I was also remembering another comment you made about blacks and their massive protests, conveniently leaving out whites.

          • Laughing…The very fact that you feel the need to make a comparison between two different groups of people, one as a positive, and one as a negative, is a subtle (sneaky) form of racism.

          • Uh no. That is for both Alexis and Mandy.
            I was simply replying to SayWhat’s comment, reminding them of certain events.
            If you can find a comment from about unruly blacks I would love to see it, truly.
            My best friend – Mexican by birth, now a citizen. Family members from all around the world of many skin tones and ethnicities. Work, and laugh WITH all of my varied co-workers. Heck, growing up I thought I was mixed with a few types of blood, turns out DNA says otherwise. Oh well, nobody is perfect.

    • Education, huh? Guess what? Your education won’t mean jack after 40 or 45 or 50 – nothing. Experience? – nobody cares. America’s sick twisted culture eats it’s young and abandons it’s old. Youth worship to the point of fetishization; essentially a nation-wide mental disorder, among other mental disorders characterized in American business practices and “culture.” There’s a reckoning coming and it will devour everybody. It already is. Until this cultural mental illness of money and youth worship above all else is addressed the future is grim for all of us. The growing homeless encampments we see now are just the beginning. Take note smug 20-somethings that think they know everything – you’ll be 50 before you know it.

  6. The economy is booming!!! Unless you’re black or over 40 or rent your housing or don’t have a family member/friend to back-door you in to a job opening or didn’t have mommy and daddy pay your tuition to UCLA.
    This country sucks, period. Greatest.Country. Ever – Yeah, according to whom? I’d expatriate myself SO fast if I had he means to move away and watch the USA decline on TV rather than having to live it in real time.

    • The Jews had it worst and they now run the U.S.A. They did it not by blaming Hitler or some other white dude. They did it through education

      • Uh, the Jews already had their hands in the money pile which is why Hitler, the charmer that he was, decided they were a threat. Always near the money

    • you don’t have to stay in America, get a cheap one way somewhere far away. Only people who appreciate the opportunities here. Sounds like your probably on welfare whining. Man up, go looking for a job and if you need more than one job take a second one too. I had three jobs at one point and was GRATEFUL for everything I had. Your attitude smells like millennial crap.

      • many homeless are mentally ill, or on drugs. Again I said many not all. We work with the homeless and unfortunately this is real first hand experience. they refuse housing because that means they would have to abide by laws they don’t want to follow. so once again move to a country that you like, we don’t need your woe s me attitude in this country.

        • Yolanda….you have no idea hat you’re talking about. I also work with the homeless humans, and your attitude stinks.

      • So you are grateful for having the opportunity to hold 3 minimum wage jobs? That’s considered Exceptional(TM)?

    • Governmental pets. They like to keep them this way so they are dependent. If the Government really thought this was a problem, they would direct millions/billions to this direction instead of funding the sanctuary state and all the millions set aside for their defense.

  8. “The report, which includes 67 recommendations, concludes that racism, discrimination and unconscious bias…”

    Alcohol and drug abuse, mental illness, lack of education/skills, and unemployability…

  9. Of course this is sanctuary city did discriminate against everyone except for Hispanics it’s ridiculous build the damn wall

    • I agree. Building should begin around Sierra Hwy, curving around Pearblossom, and north along 70th. Make it 10 feet tall and made of titanium, with pretty windows to let natural light come in.

      After this, no Hispanic is getting to the Antelope Valley. NOT. A. SINGLE. ONE. Except those from Tahachapi. Them are cool.

    • The black is being left behind because they are unwilling to rid themselves of their bad boys and girls and protect right or wrong these bad actors procreate and now you have a homeless,unemployment, incarcerated black population, START TO CLEAN HOUSE

    • One thing that I might “blame on whites” is how you insist on making everything about you. That was the personal you, Gil, not the ‘you white people.’ YOU look at an article about the hard statistical realities showing inequities in our society, and your first response, no doubt while tucked in your cozy little suburban castle, is some sort of ‘oh woe is me’ nonsense about how picked on you are. Disgusting.

        • Why people don’t take responsibility for their actions crack cocaine damage the black community but that time is over with now is meth time you have white people raping sleeping with their own incest and you have Mexicans with more do I need to say God bless Gabriel