Bellflower’s homeless problem
In 2018, the leaders of Bellflower, had what Mayor Juan Garza calls a “wake-up moment.” For the first time in the Bellflower’s history, a citywide poll had found homelessness, not crime, to be the issue that most concerned residents. “Bar none, every single year, crime had always been the number 1 issue,” Garza says. The city didn’t have a single homeless shelter; however, it did have 166 homeless residents, according to a point-in-time survey, and most of them were living on
