From what I've read elsewhere, this is actually in Ontario, CA, which is east of LA.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-tents18mar18,1,5139391.story?page=1

Because there have always been homeless people, and probably always will be. And a lot of them don't deserve to be homeless--they had bad luck, or lost their jobs, or things that. This isn't really "unusual" in the eyes of the mass media, and therefore it isn't big news. People don't care. People are stupid.

I didn't mean to sound cavalier or dismissive in my last comment--I was just pointing to more information I thought you might find interesting. I think the homeless situation sucks, and always has. The point is that this isn't really a new thing--it's been around for a long time. The Tent City didn't really "spring up" outside of LA--it was established by the city of Ontario to give a place to homeless people who had already been there for a long time. It was a brave thing and I'm glad they did it.

But it isn't really new.

During the early 1900s there were tent cities in Washington D.C. where ethnic minorities and the poor were herded...and I believe there are shanty towns in present day America along the Mexican border. It's sad, but I don't know if it's new.