Fortress Los Angeles

This particular reading upset me for a couple of reasons. When I read the part about the bathrooms inside of office buildings, restaurants, art galleries, e.t.c and how they would be built only for the use of tourists and white collared workers but not for the homeless or poor. That, to me, was just wrong. You cannot deny anyone access to a public place. Regardless of how they may appear, they still have the right to be treated with their dignity and respect. It is not right that they will sit there and say that tourists, whom they know nothing about or where they came from, can use their facilities, but a homeless man/woman cannot. That is just morally wrong. All throughout this reading, they just complain of the amount of poor people and how they are in all these different places of Los Angeles. I know that is a problem for them but unless they decide to find funding for shelters or programs that may ultimately get these people off of the streets and stop complaining, then they just need to shut their mouths and move on. Honestly, poverty and homelessness is everywhere. It's not going anywhere.