For many Californians, reducing homelessness comes down to the encampment next door

For many Californians, reducing homelessness comes down to the encampment next door

This is both an admission and an observation: The ramifications of homelessness, for most people, are anecdotal. Statistics don’t do much to convince people of the seriousness of the problem or persuade them much that it’s getting better or worse. What matters is how it brushes up against them directly. I was reminded of this last week, when I passed an encampment that is a part of my everyday life in Los Angeles, an unsightly and vaguely threat…