South LA Podcast: Mayor's Office Tries to Solve Homeless Problem With Sock Drive

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Los Angeles has a diverse population spread out over a large area, and that's true of the city's homeless population too. That makes counting the homeless for the 2010 census incredibly difficult. The Mayor's census office thinks it has a solution: offer them socks. The organization is collecting socks to give away to homeless people who participate in the census at the end of March. The census information will help determine funding allocations for the next ten years, and since Los Angeles is the homeless capitol of America, the city needs all the help it can get. Timothy Beck Werth talks to Jazmín Ortega with the Mayor's Census Office about the logic behind the sock drive. Then he speaks with David Howard, author of Unsheltered, a special report on homelessness in South LA.