Opinion: Land Sale Doesn’t Help Homeless

Volunteers of America has lost its chance to pursue the most direct, effective, and “innovative” way to tackle the homelessness problem in Southern California, writes the Los Angeles Times in an editorial.

The newspaper chides the organization for selling 13 of the 28 acres it received from the federal government when it closed a military base on the land in San Pedro, Calif.

Volunteers of America says that by using the proceeds from the sale, it will have the money it needs to provide services to the homeless. But the newspaper says it would have been better to build low-cost housing on the former military base so fewer people would be homeless.