The city’s unease could prove pivotal next year, when Los Angeles will elect a new mayor in a contest that civic leaders say will have the highest stakes in decades.
A poll says Latino and Black respondents were the most likely to have been homeless or know someone who had, and were also the most optimistic about solving L.A.’s homeless crisis.
For some candidates, thousands of new tiny homes, rented hotel rooms and other forms of short-term shelter are the place to start solving homelessness.