Marksist, writing "Pledge to Help the Homeless" in dailykos on Sunday, January 9, 2011, wrote:
Did you know that on any given night in Los Angeles County that two out of every three homeless people sleep on the streets? And that 7,000 veterans are homeless? That an additional 7,000 homeless people are youth, age 24 or younger?
Data is power... and these are staggering numbers. Numbers that tell us that more attention, brain power, stakeholder collaboration and resources need to be brought forward in LA County, statewide and nationally.
Here in Venezuela,homelessness has been a problem for over a hundred years. With the recent floods and landslides, 130,000 more people have joined the homeless. But, under the Chavez administration, we can see what can be accomplished when the needed attention, brain power, funding and other resources are brought to bear on solving the problem.