Willie Brown recently attributed the homeless situation in San Francisco to the same thing he attributed it to decades ago when he was mayor; a perpetual bureaucratic obsolescence that serves some and underserves others, to paraphrase.
The dismantling of the homeless industrial complex is a vision come and gone. The bureaucracies, individual interests, some nonprofit advocates and big government contractors are dug in like an Alabama tic.
LA Weekly Skid Row series
I was on a yacht in St-Barths when MySpace started blasting “On Skid Row” on their landing page. I was just beginning to wrap my head around social justice journalism. Now it’s been almost two decades since I wrote my first Skid Row story. This LA Weekly series was my introduction, the doc series I followed up with was further education. I was living on the 6th floor of a loft building on Skid Row in 2004.
I followed up with “On Skid Row” a 5-part doc series for Good Magazine.
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Rise of the American Favela
I’ve been writing about immigrations since 2018, but find myself back on Skid Row again. Rise of the American Favela is a story of self agency. It’s my most recent piece on Skid Row.
Rise of the American Favela