Encountering the Homeless in LA and NYC

Check out Cord Jefferson on the the importance and value of public transit as, if not an equalizer, a way to expose us to different people than we normally encounter, particularly the homeless: “One bad thing about LA, I think, is how easy it is to avoid homeless people … At least New York — being a place of walking and public transit — makes you regularly confront the fact that there are homeless people all around, and that many of them are not receiving adequate care.”

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