‘I was flooded out’: L.A. shelters near capacity as the unhoused seek refuge from storm
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‘I was flooded out’: L.A. shelters near capacity as the unhoused seek refuge from storm

LA Times  

Ansel Perez, 46, stays beneath an overpass in South L.A. during the rainstorm on Tuesday. Smoking a cigarette outside the shelter at the South Los Angeles Sports Activity Center on Tuesday, with rain still coming down, she said she was grateful. “I’m able to sleep.” Brandon Ellis, 44, stood beneath the 110 Freeway in South Los Angeles to escape the rain. “I don’t believe we could ever have enough shelters, I mean, considering we have 46,000 people who are unhoused” in the city, she said. is the need for additional shelters.” At the South Los Angeles Sports Activity Center, which is one of the six additional winter shelters, people walked in and out to smoke or purchase snacks from a nearby liquor store.

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