Building A Better Los Angeles Organization

The city of Los Angeles will buy 67 mobile homes to house homeless families after the city's urban campground closes next month, Mayor Tom Bradley announced Monday. The 29 three-bedroom and 38 two-bedroom units will be placed "in various locations," Bradley said, though he did not specify where. Disclosure of the $401,000 purchase came as the campground, which the mayor opened as a "temporary solution" for a two-month period at 320 S. Santa Fe Ave., nears the halfway point in its life span.

The city of Los Angeles will buy 67 mobile homes to house homeless families after the city's urban campground closes next month, Mayor Tom Bradley announced Monday. The 29 three-bedroom and 38 two-bedroom units will be placed "in various locations," Bradley said, though he did not specify where. Disclosure of the $401,000 purchase came as the campground, which the mayor opened as a "temporary solution" for a two-month period at 320 S. Santa Fe Ave., nears the halfway point in its life span.

I just read the article in the Business Section concerning ads that will try to jolt L.A. about its homeless and the Building a Better Los Angeles organization's hopes to raise $1 million over the next six months to aid the 35,000 homeless here. How ironic it is that the City of the Angels can readily find large sums of money to provide security for the Pope's two-day visit. I certainly hope John Paul has something to say about such a distorted sense of values. ALEX BRITTON Los Alamitos