Justice
Why U.S. Cities Have Been Making it Harder to Feed the Homeless
Los Angeles is the latest city to consider a ban on providing meals to the homeless in public.
Every night around 6:15 p.m., the Greater West Hollywood Food Coalition parks its truck on the same street corner in Los Angeles – because, of course, people need to know where to go – and begins serving meals to the homeless. Often 200 of them in a night.
The scene has increasingly frustrated the neighbors, as Adam Nagourney describes in the New York Times. They're upset that the homeless then linger in the neighborhood with nowhere to go. They're upset by the noise. No one comes right out and says this, but it's easy to imagine that they're upset about their property values, too.