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A homeless encampment sits in entrance of a metropolis water and energy constructing within the Skid Row group in Los Angeles, California.
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A homeless encampment sits in entrance of a metropolis water and energy constructing within the Skid Row group in Los Angeles, California.
Mario Tama/Getty Photographs
Final yr, the speed of homelessness in the USA was the very best ever recorded. The disaster is at its worst in California; Extra folks reside exterior of California than wherever else within the nation. California Governor Gavin Newsom has pushed a bundle of reforms aimed toward decreasing homelessness, together with CARE Court docket: a brand new sort of courtroom that’s imagined to help folks with critical psychological well being issues. The governor has made the rounds on native and nationwide information presenting CARE Court docket as an answer to homelessness. However Anna Scott, a Southern California reporter who has coated homeless points for KCRW, finds there is a hole between how these courts are bought and actuality. right this moment in Sunday’s storyAyesha Rascoe and Anna Scott discover what this coverage experiment in California will help us perceive in regards to the causes and options to homelessness.
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