Tiny homes, big problems
Re “Bass and Caruso fill in housing details,” Sept. 4
Seeing that Los Angeles mayoral candidates Karen Bass and Rick Caruso are providing some details about their plans for homelessness and housing, I’d like to ask them:
Have you made friends with homeless folks? Your tiny homes and shelters in warehouses will be just more visible signs that these people are not equal persons in this great city.
Have you stepped back
to take a look at the tiny homes? They are unsustainable. One can tell by looking at them. Why are we using our beautiful land for these shacks where no one wants to live?
Why does no one want to live in them? Because living there is not really living. The rules are for no person. One’s time is not free. You cannot entertain visitors. Services are intermittent.
Makes a tent in the woods by a freeway seem attractive, doesn’t it?
Let’s get some real people who are homeless to make real plans to help our homeless citizens like real people. Can we please get a committee of them, with a small group of interfaith people to address ethical issues, and ask what they believe will help?
Dave Saltzman
Los Angeles The writer is a chaplain with Church of Hearts Los Angeles, which serves unhoused people.