Homeless service demands soar

Tod "Malibu" Hamilton said he once raked in $100,000 a year as a Chrysler executive, built a custom home and parked two Harleys in the garage. Then came a long battle with booze, drugs, jail and homelessness.Dana Bartholomew in the Daily News.

"I was a winner then and a loser now," Hamilton said Wednesday after a restless night in an abandoned house. "I was a 29-year-old exec. Now I'm a 46-year-old panhandler living in the street. From Park Avenue to park bench. "I'm going to do my best to turn it around."

Hamilton is among the burgeoning number of homeless in the San Fernando Valley, where demand for homeless services has quadrupled since autumn at some San Fernando Valley agencies.