On skid row, where physical and mental distress are on parade, 'we are forecasting a tsunami of seniors and families with children,' says the Rev. Andy Bales.
Earlie King Jr. says he was in his late 20s when he took up residence in a skid row alley downtown.When King finally moved indoors, about three weeks ago, he was 65. Leaving the Los Angeles alley, where he and friends scratched out an existence by unloading shipments to toy district merchants, felt like leaving home.
, 74, who distributes masks, psalms and information on housing and social services from his volunteer post in the little park at 5th and San Julian streets. “It’s a godsend,” said Margo Fitzsimmons, 66, an unemployed security guard who’d been living with a cousin in Inglewood. When he died, she became homeless.
“I’m still trying to move on,” said Fitzsimmons, who doesn’t feel safe on the streets of skid row. “I walk in faith that eventually something will happen…I’ll pull out of this because I’m healthy, I don’t smoke, I don’t do drugs.” “I’ve got a vision of a house in the countryside with a stream, so I could do a little fishing,” he said. “That would be my dream.”
“One mark of a civil society is that it takes deferential and better care of its people as they age, and we do that horrifically in this country,” said Behforouz. “We don’t have enough of a safety net system to catch people as they age who are becoming socially and fiscally disenfranchised.”
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