LA Times Editorial Deplores Failure of City and County Governments to Cover Costs or Pay Sufficient Wages for Homeless Service Providers
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Editorial: Service providers get homeless people off the streets and into housing. Pay them what they need
By The Times Editorial Board, May 10, 2021
In the struggle to help homeless people move off the street, service providers — the entities that supply them food, guidance and other crucial forms of support — are the ones on the front lines. Their staff are the outreach workers who go to encampments and underpasses, and who seek out people slumped on sidewalks in plain view, huddled in the brush out of sight or living in cars. It can take days, weeks, even months to earn the trust of homeless individuals inured to street life and suspicious of anyone who wants to move them to an unfamiliar locale. Even as the pandemic raged in the past year, outreach workers were the ones who never stopped toiling in the streets.
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