Homeless and hoarding in L.A.: The special struggles and anxieties of unhoused people
LA TimesIn his dim motel room, flies and dust swirled through a slanted blade of sunlight. Moving is a lot different for a hoarder.” — Mario Blanco Vincent Stephens, a case manager with People Assisting the Homeless, a nonprofit based in Los Angeles, said people with hoarding disorders are some of the most challenging cases to handle. “Like spinning several different plates.” June 30 was moving day for Blanco and other unhoused tenants of the Chateau Inn & Suites in Downey, the place they’ve called home for a year. “You’re left with an empty hole and you just feel sadness.” Blanco says he has a difficult time processing the loss of anything. “That’s why I went to help her.” Blanco believes his hoarding disorder may have developed when he was a child and worsened with each hardship he faced.
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