Tag: Mental Illness

L.A. Doesn’t Have a Homelessness Crisis. It’s a Crisis of Abandonment.

Prickett and Timmermans’s other subjects struggled not with homelessness or addiction but with social isolation. Lena, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, spent decades on her own. She had barely entered adulthood, in the early 1930s, when a speeding car killed her father; her mother suffered a “mental breakdown” and was institutionalized. Lena married, but her […]

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