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Has only got worse. >> for five years we've been able to permanently have more than 80,000 people out of homelessness and still more people on the sidewalks. >> peter lynn said the cities of angels has made progress during his tenure as executive director of los angeles homeless service authority but the crisis is growing too fast to address with current resources. those resources include $1.2 billion in housing construction bonds in 2016 and millions of dollars from new sales tax voters approved to address the crisis. despite that after five years, los angeles homeless population has increase...

Affordability. >> that was one of lynn's big goals, to change public opinion of what causes homelessness, the root causes, larger societal factors like lack of affordable housing, access to mental health care and racism but after several years and millions of dollars many angelenos are growing frustrated by the lack of progress. in a recent poll by the los angeles times, 65% said they agree police should be more involved in cleaning up the streets to address the growing health crisis homeless and comments are creating. >> motorhomes into the spreading grounds. it is a crisis of conscience or c...

he could not join us but i am sure he would have wanted him to be here as well. what i would like to do, since -- i have about 20 minutes, right? right. 23 cone 25 minutes. i am notorious for a rambling, so i will try not to fall into old habits. i will try to divide my remarks in two about the essence of the book. then i will move on to talk a little bit about how we came to write this book. and last week with the book means for where we are in the current economic conjuncture, not just in the u.s. but to put it in a global perspective. so those are the three pieces of my presentati...