How #Los_Angeles Is Becoming a ‘Third World’ City - The New York Times
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/06/opinion/welcome-to-hooverville-california.html
Its center is not in East Los Angeles, or any other Latino neighborhood; nor in our recently christened “Little Bangladesh.” The third world exists everywhere here — in the spread of inequality.
The deepening gap between rich and poor is both a sociological fact and a state of mind. The cost of housing is up dramatically, and so is homelessness.