Rowe rejected the idea homeless people were 'service-resistant,' feeling they would come indoors if people would only listen to them.
Jeanette Rowe, a pioneer in bringing homeless services into the streets instead of dumping people on Skid Row, or expecting them to scale bureaucratic mountains, has died at 72.
Rowe called herself “an old hippie,” but few hippies ever worked her punishing six-day weeks, helping people at encampments from the San Gabriel riverbed to Union Station, where she spent a two-day Christmas holiday helping relocate hundreds of people swept out of the landmark’s ornate lobby. Rowe grew up in Newark, N.J., in a poor household that never felt that way. “My mother always said you only need one pair of shoes,” she said.“I never slept by myself until I left home for college” at Cal State Los Angeles and Dominguez Hills, where she studied music, Rowe said.
“Jeanette realized what she learned applies to everyone being traumatized on the street,” said Arnold, who also headed LAHSA during Rowe’s tenure there.
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