Myah Hasbany

The Skid Row area of Los Angeles is facing problems over the amount of public restrooms for the over 34,000 homeless people living there. City officials had promised nearly two months ago that 10 more public restrooms would be constructed by mid September, but that has yet to happen. These sanitation facilities are more desperately needed as the homeless population grows, and as outbreaks of hepatitis A are becoming more common. This year 16 people have died and nearly 300 were hospitalized for a disease that could have been prevented if more facilities were available to the homeless. If this plan is actually completed, Skid Row would receive a mobile " Hygiene Center" that would offer hand washing stations, showers, washers, dryers and toilets. This is much better than offering port- a - potties, because it would be regulated, have security, and have more outreach to get homeless people into shelters.

I think this article was written to shed light on an important problem most people would never think or know about. It also shows that we need to be more aware of the necessities that most homeless people don't have, but desperately need. To me, this problem is almost similar to the Flint water crisis. Both are problems about basic necessities that were ignored and need to be fixed.

http://beta.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-homeless-toilets-20170916-story.html