Las Vegas officials blame the pandemic, inflation and an affordable housing shortage for the region’s growing number of homeless people, who are often viewed as society’s castoffs and include many struggling with mental illness and substance abuse.
Some have literally been forced underground, turning aqueducts and tunnels built for flood control beneath the Las Vegas Strip into shelter for themselves. But homeless people have been under attack for decades. Staged fights between homeless men were videotaped and sold under the name “Bumfights” in the early 2000s, and a homeless man was burned alive in Los Angeles in 2008.
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