#lafh

Harkening back to his time in Occupy LA, Mike and his wife Temper have set up camp on the sidewalk in front of the Los Angeles Family Housing site in North Hollywood. He makes a spontaneous call for action, calling for a demonstration of solidarity by those who have found it nigh impossible to acquire housing vouchers. Of course the sidewalk wouldn't be big enough to fit just the people that I have personally heard tales of frustration from in this regard....  

Rita Dunn, truly an expert in this field, weighs in...

Good for them. It's too bad that they will probably be harassed and moved before getting the voucher everyone is waiting for. Everyone is waiting for a voucher. Why? Because LA officials obfuscated the truth using the regurgitation effect.

Now Jamie Kim on the other hand, who was cradling a beat-up Nikon DSLR when we met at Dearborn Park, is another story altogether. Unfailingly alert, polite, intelligent, somewhat conflicted about the prospect of getting into some sort of housing environment and not too pleased (a tired refrain) with LA Family Housing’s caseworker “service.” He told me how his father, Kenneth Kim, a professional photographer, taught him the craft as a youngster; how his film cameras had all been stolen; how he worked for years as an E6 film processor at A&I lab (longtime premier photography lab in Los Angeles) until it all went south… health problems that will require hernia surgery notwithstanding, Jamie, (pleasant and really happy to meet a fellow photofile and just anyone for that matter who will accept his offer to sit and talk to a “homeless”) won’t go anywhere that won’t let him bring certain items inside. So now he’s playing a little waiting game with the authorities that have served him notice to vacate the park, and his tattered American flag was flapping somewhat defiantly in the breeze. #lafamilyhousing #poverty #medical#nikonphotography