Columnist LATstevelopez met with L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti to discuss what Garcetti's administration is doing to fix L.A.'s homelessness crisis. 'This is not all Eric Garcetti’s fault. But doing a lot is not necessarily doing enough,' Lopez writes.
; and when even the most compassionate of L.A.’s residents wonder why you can’t do more about the public health threat from mounds of trash near encampments.On Tuesday, in an obvious response to critics, Garcetti sent a “Rising to the Challenge” letter to constituents.
The inescapable truth of the matter is that when the $1.2 billion Garcetti helped deliver with Measure HHH is gone and all the planned bridge housing and other projects are completed, we still figure to have tens of thousands of people on the street.
On Thursday, after walking past the people sleeping on the grounds of City Hall, I met with Garcetti for more than an hour. I told him I never doubted that he cares and works hard. He’s absolutely right when he says he’s done more than anyone, though that’s partly because years of underwhelming response magnified the crisis.
I reminded him that 18 months ago, he and I talked about there being no “buck stops here” agency when it comes to homelessness, because power is divided among city and county agencies. The Los Angeles Housing Services Authority, Garcetti and L.A. County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas said at the time, might need to be restructured to give it more authority.
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