среда, 14 марта 2012 г.

Mayor mustn’t forget city’s ‘invisible’ poor

Living close to two expressway overpasses, I often notice carefully stashed bundles, shopping carts, sleeping bags and cardboard shelters stored below. Sometimes the owners of these items are called "invisible," but look around and you'll find people living outdoors anywhere in the city.

A few years ago, a skate park was built under the overpass at Logan Boulevard, and so the bridge-dwellers were evicted. Three years later, people are camping up in the weeds banking the highway along Logan. They fill their water bottles at the skate park water fountain. They check the Dumpsters behind nearby restaurants for cast-off food.

At the Fullerton westbound off-ramp, you may have …

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