How One Man Is Working to Solve Los Angeles’s Homelessness Problem on His Own
How One Man Is Working to Solve Los Angeles’s Homelessness Problem on His Own
John Alle, a property manager and activist in Santa Monica, has launched a controversial hotline offering one-way tickets home to homeless individuals in Los Angeles. Frustrated by the city's slow progress on homelessness and personally affected by an attack, Alle's program, a two-man operation with minimal bureaucracy, aims for a faster, cheaper solution than traditional methods. The article follows the journey of Jason Narron and his husband, Alterrick Hooker, as they navigate life on the streets of Los Angeles and ultimately use Alle's program to return to North Carolina, highlighting both the hope and the unresolved challenges of such initiatives.
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this story echoes institutional breakdowns that have led to eradicating of homeless camps or sending immigrants by bus to another state.
it is action that drives short term vanity metrics (ex: one more person off our streets) but may possibly contribute to the longer term issue the community actually wants to address.
there are no easy answers and it is important to sympathize with need to just do something.
i just wish the "something" was more akin to UBI, as opposed to just moving people around.
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