Photo Essay: On Venice Beach

There are fewer and fewer places to be poor in the city of America’s future. Walk down any residential street on the periphery of downtown; it teems with immigrant families doubling and tripling up in small apartments. A Los Angeles Times survey last year found 200,000 persons throughout the county residing in garages in the backs of homes and apartments, invariably without running water, frequently without electricity. “Stuff they used to find in the rural South some twent...