Actress Jennifer Garner, famous for her roles in 13 Going on 30 and Daredevil, enlisted a paparazzo filming her on Sunday to help a homeless man needing shoes and socks.
Garner, a supporter of the current Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, was seen helping a homeless man in Santa Monica, California, by providing him a goody bag and finding shoes and socks for his feet.
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Garner rushed over to the photographer filming her and asked him if she could buy his shoes to give to the homeless man.
“What size feet do you have?” she asked the man filming her. “Can I buy your shoes for him? He needs a shoe.”
A camera just happened to be there while Jennifer Garner gave her shoes to a man in a wheelchair. I just know her and Jonathan Majors share the same PR team. pic.twitter.com/jFs2KCPyPD
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The photographer reportedly gave the shoes for free, in addition to clothing for the man.
The actress hosted a food drive in April at her home to support the group Rise Against Hunger.
Garner also supported Bass in her bid for office last year. Bass has aggressively tried to get homeless people off of the street with the goal of ending street homelessness in the city by 2026. One of her first initiatives was the creation of the "Inside Safe" program, dedicated to moving the homeless living in tents into hotel rooms.
"You said your first plan of action was to declare a state of emergency to tackle that homelessness. Why hasn't it made more of a difference?"
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Los Angeles Democrat Mayor Karen Bass: *chuckles* pic.twitter.com/9wlUquZT8D
The mayor made a state of emergency on homelessness declaration this summer amid newly released data that homelessness in the county had increased by 9% and by another 10% in the city of Los Angeles despite large investments to get people off the street.
The largest group of the "unhoused population" is the Hispanic community, followed by the African American community.
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Few people have reportedly moved from hotels into permanent housing, and the city is struggling to produce evidence of the Inside Safe program's effectiveness.
Unite Here Local 11, a hospitality union in Los Angeles, has been running ads in protest of a ballot initiative for voters to weigh in on next March. The latest initiative would force hotels to report empty rooms to the city’s housing department and would then use those available rooms to place homeless people with prepaid vouchers. The dispute has led to widespread strikes in California.