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Guardian:

Los Angeles county is home to more than 69,000 unhoused people, count finds

…rates that are significantly higher than other US cities with homelessness crises. The humanitarian disaster in the largest county in the US has pushed unhoused people to live outside in tents, encampments, cars, RVs and makeshift structures, scattered under freeways and bridges, in major city parks and beach communities, on streets and sidewalks, and in remote desert terrain. An average of five unhoused people now die every day in LA county,…

Serious question: semantically how long may a „crisis“ continue? A „disaster“? US cities that I pay attention to, Philadelphia, San Francisco, LA, regularly have media stories which mention the „crisis“ of drug overdose deaths, homelessness. I think of a crisis as

How many years is it semantically correct to speak of a crisis continuing?

Le vieux monde se meurt, le nouveau monde tarde à apparaître et dans ce clair-obscur surgissent les monstres.

—Gramsci, loose translation by Gustave Massiah

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