We can’t arrest our way out of the homelessness crisis in the San Fernando Valley

We can’t arrest our way out of the homelessness crisis in the San Fernando Valley

Yesterday, as I was driving down Balboa Boulevard to pick up my kids from school, I saw crews from the city’s Sanitation Department sweeping up belongings and shuffling unhoused residents from the sidewalk. When I was driving back up the street for the next morning’s drop off, the familiar tents were right back where they’d been. During the sweep, many people had simply packed what they could in shopping carts and walked to a nearby alley, waite…