Robin Abcarian: Meet the man getting LA's homeless off the streets — by illegally renting them vans

I don't know anyone who is not frustrated, saddened and appalled by our homelessness crisis.

The tent cities, the garbage-strewn sidewalks, the plein-air bicycle chop shops - they're all signs of a great social apocalypse.

We have failed on such a massive scale.

Because of that, I simply cannot hold it against people who live in cars or vans.

For many homeowners in neighborhoods such as Venice, vehicle dwellers are a scourge. For a homeless man named Gary Gallerie, they presented a business opportunity.

Some years ago, Gallerie, a former beer truck driver and World Series of Poker dealer, decided to buy cheap vans and rent them to people who were homeless or unable