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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
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Benjamin Oreskes and Doug Smith

LA says it can’t take care of its sickest and most vulnerable. The county isn’t buying it

LOS ANGELES — Earlier this month, with much fanfare, Los Angeles officials announced a partial settlement of a 2-year-old federal lawsuit over homelessness.

The city pledged to create housing, either permanent or interim, for 60% of the city’s unsheltered homeless population. Lawyers representing L.A. Alliance for Human Rights, the group that filed the lawsuit, endorsed the agreement.

Conspicuously absent from the event were representatives of Los Angeles County, which is also being sued by the group.

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