Rats at the police station, filth on the streets — scenes from the collapse of a city that’s lost control

Housing gets refused all the time, especially shelters spots. Some homeless people I work with suffer from a sense of entitlement and are very selective about where they will consider living. No one want to live downtown or south central and that's where a lot of emergency housing is. My client was matched to a SRO in Skid Row and he noped out so fast after seeing the spot...can't say I blame him.

Part of the problem as I see it is people not understanding how desperate their situation is and that they are in last resort kind of space. They have a sense of entitlement that the county/state can put them up in their own new studio apartment near the MTA if they just hold out and act crazy enough. The other problem is the housing on offer is often horrible, dangerous, unsafe, and a worse situation than street sleeping.

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