Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still the children run. Seattle, San Francisco and New York City are among the top destinations. But Hollywood is ground zero. Experts estimate that 10,000 homeless youths are on the streets on any given night in Los Angeles County, maybe 3,000 of them in Hollywood alone. They are lured by the persistent myth that Hollywood is where the rainbow touches down; they remain because it does offer a few shelters and services to the thousands of homeless youths seeking miracles there. For the nation's runaways, Hollywood is like a ) huge electric bug zapper that...
Three weeks on the streets and Beavis is slipping fast. On a Wednesday, another homeless teenager rapes Rainbow, who is one-month pregnant with Beavis' child. On Thursday Rainbow breaks up with Beavis. On Friday she takes two hits of acid. That evening she miscarries in an abandoned building. By Saturday Beavis is self-destructing again. "I did acid for the first time, plus a ton of orange juice and some vitamins because I really wanted to fry and have my eyes and hearing be more powerful. Then I huffed on rubber cement for three hours...
Mornings are quiet; like all teenagers, homeless youths sleep in whenever possible. Then they wander to youth centers like My Friend's Place in Los Angeles, which offers food, showers, friendship and counseling. "You've got to look beyond the drugs and the prostitution and see that these are just kids, kids who should be taking driver's ed right now or worrying about which corsage to wear," says executive director Steve LePore. Behind him, several , youths in worn clothing lie on the floor asleep...
...hours later, she can't stop laughing. She sits on the floor of a barren room in a Hollywood squat, giggling and staring at the flicker of a small candle. Her boyfriend, Troll, a 23-year-old from Dallas who has been homeless since he was 17, lies on the floor asleep. They met during a food fight at a local youth center. "I need a beer," she says. "Does anybody have some beer...
More than 15 familes were left homeless last night after a sevenalarm fire gutted two Cambridge St. apartment buildings...