Letting the homeless sleep on streets - Is this the solution?

# LA officials on Wednesday released details of a proposed settlement with the ACLU that will allow the homeless to sit, lie or sleep on city streets between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. - as long as they are not within 10 feet of doors or access points to buildings.

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# The French government statistics bureau estimated the number of people living without a fixed address at 86,000 for all of France in 2004, about equal to the number of homeless in Los Angeles alone.

# The Christian Science Monitor reports that only 10% of the homeless in America are chronically homeless; for the other 90%, homelessness is a transitory problem

# The number of homeless in Western Europe is at its highest level in 50 years and rising.