One, considering this is an emergency beyond the scope of current solutions, the city should press the FAA to *temporarily* waive that restriction for three to five years until the homeless can be transitioned to more permanent housing. President Trump has said he is eager to step in and help solve a problem our own officials have not been able to– getting the FAA to waive that rule would be a huge start. Seattle and Portland rewrote their zoning laws to allow for homeless villages. In a crisis, rules can be waived and laws rewritten.
Two– so don’t use LAX. In the column, I made it clear there were other options as well. The city, county, and public agencies own huge swaths of land around the region. Use multiple locations. There are large parts of Griffith Park unused by the public. There are areas downtown. City Controller Ron Galperin has the list. We are living in an upside-down world where a safe, large-scale homeless village with all the necessary services is “mythical,” but homeless people strewn along our sidewalks is realistic. (By the way, The Guardian newspaper conducted a study of these homeless villages in the Pacific Northwest and found they did not lead to an increase in crime in the village or in surrounding neighborhoods).
Now, a sidebar. I appreciate and love working with the LA Times folks. The pieces I’ve written for them since leaving the Jewish Journal have received a wide readership and far-reaching responses. Very few columns I’ve written have had the kind of reaction this last one did. That wouldn’t have happened if editor Sue Horton wasn’t been willing to accept an admittedly new and controversial idea. And as for research, I relied heavily not just on interviews, but on the Times’ own reporting, including Steve Lopez’s numerous heavily-reported columns on homelessness.
So all that just made it more surprising that the editorial so blithely dismissed my call for a bold, big, scaled-up homeless solution. At a time when we all realize the current approach is broken, every thoughtful idea needs to be considered and critiqued, not mocked. The only thing mythical is the idea that we can fix homelessness with more trash cans, toilets, or old ideas.
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