“Anyone can be homeless. Homelessness is like a prison without the keys. Society needs to care enough to come up with those keys.”
Tag Archives: hollywood
Amanda: You Are Not Alone
Dear Amanda Bynes, You’re not alone. Other people have been through this.
Happy Days to Homeless Days
Now, it is Erin Moran, the cute daughter from the 1970’s TV show Happy Days, who is now an adult struggling with homelessness. What happened? Her on-screen brother, Ron Howard, is a famous producer and director while poor Erin looks like the stereotypical image of homelessness.
The War Against Homeless Sweeps
John used to sit on top of his make-shift encampment like he was the King of the Hill, overlooking the famous lights of Hollywood. Within the homeless community, he was literally called “The Godfather” as if he was Marlon Brando, keeping the family protected. The homeless camp looked more like a staging area for embedded […]
Los Angeles County Supervisor Brings Hope to Hollywood’s Homeless
Written by Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky My alarm went off at 3:00 a.m., rousing me from bed for a trip to Hollywood to participate in a new count of homeless people—one in a series of such surveys conducted in Skid Row and throughout my supervisorial district during the past 2 ½ years. The […]