To the editor: The outline of the destruction of Alejandro Diaz’s stunning hand-built dwelling alongside the Arroyo Seco channel in Highland Park was one of many saddest issues I’ve ever learn. In what approach does this resolve any drawback or do any good? (“He spent 5 years constructing makeshift dwelling. It took in the future for authorities to dismantle it,” Feb. 24)
The residents of the encampment have been despatched warning notices saying that “their private property couldn’t be saved in a metropolis park” — a fundamental cease-and-desist order. Solely on this case, the actual message to them was to stop to exist.
Our housing disaster is a matter of malfunctioning financial constructions. Trashing the meager earthly possessions of members of our society who’re unable to seek out official housing doesn’t finish homelessness and is a shameful strategy to method this problem.
Do we actually desire a cleanup? Then provide homeless residents a city-owned area the place they will camp, geared up with bogs, showers, a cooking space and trash pickup.
Anne Hormann, Pasadena
