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Large open space, high ceilings, lots of windows and natural light, walk-in closet, private hot tub spa. Sounds like a multi-million dollar luxury loft penthouse, but wait! We’re describing a homeless tent in the Skid Row neighborhood of Downtown Los Angeles.

Stephanie Williams says that she is living her best life on Skid Row. A fashion designer, she sews for the community. Not just sleeping in a tent, she controls a sprawling estate compound of several large, upscale tent-like residences with deluxe features. Her real estate is free for her. Her tent mansion boasts a hardwood floor, a bamboo bed with upscale mattress and linens, appliances, full size Christmas tree set up, walk in closet, private toilet, electric generator and hot tub spa. She pays no rent to use the valuable, sprawling Central Los Angeles land that she enjoys. Take a look at Skid Row’s White House! | VIDEO | INTERVIEW

Keeping homeless on the street is not sustainable. Only a structure with a roof can be acceptable. It’s on the taxpayer’s dime, but neither taxpayers nor homeless can use the sidewalks because they are completely blocked by tents. Pedestrians must walk in the street, which obstructs traffic, creates extreme safety hazards, resulting in injury and death for countless homeless pedestrians.

A Penn State report says that substance abuse rate is 20% to 35%, but witnesses who live on the street say almost unanimously that nearly 100% of homeless suffer from substance abuse issues. It does not help homeless, and it does not help society when taxpayers provide billions of taxpayer dollars to support unhealthy, dangerous lifestyles of substance abuse on the street. Homeless who are currently on the street absolutely must be provided with the respect of an environment, care and law enforcement that reduces the incidence of substance abuse. Ultimately, rich, middle class and poor must follow the same laws. The sooner this happens in Los Angeles, the better off everyone will be. | COMMENT

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Focus on receiving more and giving more.

In the season of giving and hoping for a better future, the L.A. Loft Blog reminds everyone that receiving is a prerequisite so that we may give. Loft Blog readers are a very kind, giving and considerate bunch. As we feel increasing pressure to ignore our own livelihood, we risk falling, sliding down into a crevasse of limitations, in an environment that demands our fullest strength and resources. If we fail to focus enough on receiving, then we end up with nothing to give. Let’s re-double our efforts to ask tough questions, and to acknowledge that all jobs are essential. We must all receive more, not less, so that we have the resources to overcome all obstacles, while still coming out better able to help others in a more powerful way.

In a time of alarm, confusion and irrationality, we must not let fear or coercion distract us from the increasingly challenging tasks before us. We’re in for tough times amid a rapidly changing environment of bifurcating wealth. More than ever before, affluence and means become fleeting and flitting from the hands of the unwary to the clutches of the crafty. The honor of giving begins with the necessity of receiving. The path forward, the way of generosity, charity, survival and changing the lives of others, starts by being open to receiving more, not less. We’re in for an obstacle course of narrowing safety, and growing distraction. Rather than letting panic and overreaction prostrate us, we must open our eyes and hands in order to receive the resources that enable us to give more to others.

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