Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
In Hollywood, a home for families who are transitioning out of homelessness is shutting down.
The L.A. Mission is closing a 45-unit apartment building it owns, saying residents must leave within two weeks.
The reason? The Mission's president Herb Smith told the LA Times it's because the building was too far from the services it offered in downtown L.A.'s Skid Row.
It points at a problem in tackling homelessness -- how to offer assistance to people without concentrating them in one particular neighborhood.
Joel Roberts, CEO of the organization People Assisting the Homeless (PATH) has more.