In Los Angeles, a new project has started to build small homes in the backyard of homeowners to rent out to people in need that live on the street or in their cars. This helps the homeless find shelter and is a solution to the housing crisis. This is taking effect in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Portland. Programs are being set up and the cities are looking into paying the homeowners subsidies and money incentives for housing these people. Many people in these cities are interested in being apart of this movement and want to do something to help others. However, there are negative points to this solution such as an issue of privacy on both sides, communication, quality of landlords, and many more. Even though all of these could pose as issues later on, I believe this is good thing and will benefit many people in need. This shows that we as people want to make a difference and do something to help out in our community. I hope we see more efforts like the ones demonstrated in this article in the very near future.
This article was published in The New York Times and was written by Jennifer Medina who focuses on economic recovery, immigration, and education in Southern California. The article was published today, October, 29, 2018, so it is very recent and contains up-to-date information. This movement can be connected to others of its kind such as the tiny houses in Dallas, Portland, and Syracuse built to house homeless or low-income families. In these housing projects, they built a community of tiny homes all around the country where they can get back on their feet while having a new and decent place to live. The audience of this article are the people of the United States to inform us of these beneficial program being started. It can also inspire others to help in their communities and cities as well. This article is important to understand that there is always something we can do to help other less fortunate.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/29/us/homeless-housing-los-angeles.html
This article is very important in encouraging people to give back to their community.
ReplyDeleteI think this project is amazing and very important because it helps the people in need. Hopefully we can expand this project world wide so we can help as many people as possible ~ Stephannie Hernandez
ReplyDeleteThis is so awesome and so great! Its important that as humans we all look out for each other and this project is a perfect example. Im so glad that there is some light in a pretty tough and darkened world!
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