There’s an urgent public health risk here in Los Angeles -- the lack of toilets available to the roughly 36,000 homeless people in the city. 

NBC4 investigative reporter Joel Grover has a new report out on this health risk. Most homeless encampments in the city do not have access to a nearby toilet, leaving residents to use the streets rather than a restroom. Even passersby are at risk of diseases like Hepatitis A.

Have you seen homeless encampments in the city that looked unsanitary? What do you think needs to be done?

Guests:

Joel Grover,  investigative reporter working on NBC4’s Streets of Shame project; he tweets @JoelNBCLA

Michael R. Cousineau, is a professor of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California; an expert in public health