allison, and there are so many obstacles to getting these 60,000 people housed in l.a. county, and it s not just the fact there s resistance in neighborhoods, but many of the folks we ve talked to who are living out on the streets are facing mental health issues, substance abuse issues, and these huge tent culture has really grown up here. and a lot of people want to stay in their tents, you know, feeling that if they re put in-housing they ll be subject to rules, they ll lose their freedom. and so it s just a really difficult problem that they re facing. some of the most vulnerable out here are women obviously, and one of the folks i spoke to, officer dan joseph who has worked with this population for two decades now talks about how difficult it is to get some of these women into housing and i think weave that sound, allison. a friend of mine named leana, she was 70 years old.
when we were with us they didn t give us anything to eat they were evil they kept on helping themselves to the gun. in the tent culture prepares bread. she doesn t want to leave the mountain it s the only place in iraq shift. she s still traumatized by her experiences as well as by the thought that three of her children are still prisoners of i.a. s. only knows that her fifteen year old daughter i ve been was forced to marry and. she has no idea what s happened to her two oldest sons i got so lucky i can t think of anything else i ll be working on something and leave it for a moment and i ll forget all about that right now i work in that it s awful that sometimes