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What Will It Take to End Homelessness In L.A.? | Zocalo Public Square • Arizona State University • Smithsonian

What Will It Take to End Homelessness In L.A.?

Today, more than one-quarter of all unsheltered people in the United States live in L.A. County. And of all Angelenos experiencing homelessness, more than 70 percent are sleeping in the streets, or in makeshift structures, tents, or vehicles. Homelessness has always been a public health and humanitarian crisis, but the crisis has been exacerbated by the continued lack of affordable …

What Makes A Good Small Town? | Zocalo Public Square • Arizona State University • Smithsonian

What Makes A Good Small Town?

California’s smaller cities are pitied, when they’re thought about at all. Media coverage of towns, especially in rural areas, emphasize their poverty, their lack of amenities and people, or their supposedly clannish cultures or peripheral politics. But the reality is that small towns stand at the center of California’s biggest challenges—climate, energy, inequality, public health, education, water, broadband access, and …