Los Angeles Residents Are Working Around the City’s Dysfunctional Homeless Policies

LOS ANGELES—It started with one street in Hollywood. A retiree began chatting with a neighbor who was picking up trash and volunteered to help. Keith Johnson had spent years as a high school photographer. Now, looking around at what he saw as a humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in front of him, he thought the homeless crisis wasn’t being accurately reflected in media coverage—or in official responses coming from City Hall. So he began taking photos, and asking questions. “There was a big encampment at Hollywood Boulevard and El Centro. It was there for the longest time. That was kind of one of the first encampments I started on,” Mr. Johnson told The Epoch Times. “And by starting on, I mean, I was just taking pictures and posting on NextDoor, just getting a conversation going, figuring out, ‘what the heck are we gonna do?’”...