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Hundreds of young people live on the streets of Hollywood -- without jobs, without housing, often without enough food to eat. Many turn to My Friend’s Place, a privately funded center that provides them with what food it can afford as well as clothes, hot showers, clean underwear, toilet paper and toiletries.
For my latest City Beat, I headed to the stretch of Hollywood Boulevard where My Friend’s Place sits perched over the 101 Freeway.
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All day long every day, young people congregate there. I spoke to them about their lives.
Former Los Angeles Times columnist Nita Lelyveld wrote City Beat stories about moments in the life of Los Angeles. She was born in New York and grew up around the world, but lived in L.A. longer than she lived anywhere else. Before joining The Times in 2001, she wrote for the Tuscaloosa News, the Associated Press and the Philadelphia Inquirer, which sent her to L.A. as a national writer in 1997.