The Region - News from Dec. 30, 1985

Mayor Tom Bradley, in a national television news broadcast, accused the Reagan Administration of not doing enough to ease the plight of the homeless. Bradley and New York Mayor Ed Koch were interviewed on ABC’s “This Week With David Brinkley.” Both mayors blamed cuts in federal assistance programs as the major cause of the rapidly growing number of people living on the streets. Bradley called for more state, federal and private aid to help build shelters and rehabilitate the city’s 40,000 homeless, half of whom are mentally ill, he said.