How Los Angeles Is Becoming a ‘Third World’ City (xpost from GD)

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/06/opinion/welcome-to-hooverville-california.html

A GENERATION ago, this West Coast metropolis became a “third world city.” At least in the rhetoric of certain East Coast thinkers....

Its center is not in East Los Angeles, or any other Latino neighborhood; nor in our recently christened “Little Bangladesh.” The third world exists everywhere here — in the spread of inequality.

The deepening gap between rich and poor is both a sociological fact and a state of mind. The cost of housing is up dramatically, and so is homelessness.

“If it feels like there are people living on the streets and under bridges everywhere you look, it’s because there are,” Bianca Barragan wrote for the website L.A. Curbed last month, after a survey by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority found an 85 percent increase in the number of people living in tents and cars over the past two years. In all, the census counted more than 25,000 homeless people in the city, up 12 percent over the same period.

h/t B2G

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1. 25.000 in the " City "

the so called city is tiny compared to the sprawl of L.A. The true number of homeless is L.A. county is staggering .