‘Remember that can easily be you’: Angelenos closest to the homelessness crisis urge compassion

On a recent morning, as the blanket of fog lifted into the sky, Aracelly Cauich hurried up a grassy knoll at Hollenbeck Park in Boyle Heights.

She recognized a man pacing nearby with a sandal on one foot and a frayed tennis shoe on the other. She smiled and the two caught up for a minute.

“I had housing,” the man told Cauich in Spanish, “but I lost it.”

Read more at the Los Angeles Times.