To the editor: Benito Flores’ efforts in El Sereno should be recommended (“Elderly man builds tree house to protest eviction from state-owned home,” June 3). Given the Grants Pass vs. Johnson ruling, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s persistent encampment sweeps and native sit/lie bans, what choices do the unhoused have left however to reside in bushes? The displacement of elders from our communities is merciless and infrequently quantities to a demise sentence. Absolutely Newsom is conscious that a mean of almost seven people die on the streets of L.A. each day — many of them elderly.
How highly effective it will be to see actual management from our governor. Why are there dozens of vacant houses on state-owned land amid this humanitarian disaster? Does Newsom really consider he can appeal his solution to Washington whereas making negligible progress on our state’s central political and ethical disaster?
Zach Murray, Los Angeles
