unhoused person

“To simultaneously deny an unhoused person a blanket and an alternative place to sleep is both mean and absurd,” she wrote.

“An unhoused person in Los Angeles was 79 times more likely than a housed person to receive a citation or arrest and 27 times more likely to be booked into jail,” it said.

The cost of incarcerating an unhoused person is approximately $106,000 per year — and that does not account for policing and court administration expenses.

The library system is “a place where John Lithgow can be found reading next to an unhoused person in the North Hollywood branch,” Jeffrey Fleishman wrote in that article.

That justification extends to "deadly physical force" in the event a defendant believes an unhoused person is attempting to "dispossess" them of the property, robbing them or committing arson.