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L.A. project shows homeless housing can be done quickly, cheaply

For years it was just another dreary piece of the downtown Los Angeles backdrop — a vacant lot between the county jail and the rusted ...

Update on Conservatorships

Some of our local and state officials recognize that the current 50-year-old system of handling conservatorships is inadequate and...

Kevin de León wants 25,000 housing units for homeless by 2025

https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2021-01-12/councilman-kevin-de-leon-t-wants-25-000-ne

COVID job losses to worsen L.A. homelessness by 2023 - Los Angeles Times

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-12/new-report-foresees-tens-of-thousands-losing-homes-by-2023?fbclid=IwAR2GRPzv5tVoPdJAe...

For Some BART Panhandlers, Begging Is Their Job

Street Drugs and Homelessness: A Devastating Combination

Monday, January 25th, 2021 | 7 PM PST via Zoom Featured Speakers: Amanda Cowan, Outreach Director for Clarematrix Veronica DeLaCruz, Los...

Collaborative Housing A Winning Solution

SHARE! Collaborative Housing is a public-private partnership providing affordable, permanent supportive housing to disabled people in ...

How LA Profits from City-Wide Homeless Crisis

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Helping chronically homeless people requires new laws

We see them every day. They are people like C, a woman in her mid-50s who has for years lived mostly in the parking lot of a Hollywood ...

A Bridge Home homeless program has mixed results

Garcetti’s signature homelessness program, which has cost about $200 million, has had less success living up to its promise to move...

HOMELESSNESS AND MENTAL HEALTH—A look at the most recent California legislation gives us some hope.

Senate Bill 855 In late September, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Senate Bill 855, a bill authored by state Sen. Scott Wiener and...

A Conundrum: Helping Mentally Ill Homeless Peopled

NEWS ANNOUCEMENT UPCOMING COMMUNITY MEETING As you know, when we founded MBSAFE, we established a relationship with the President of...

Federal Lawsuit Could Force City and County to Address Homeless Crisis

A federal lawsuit was filed that claims politicians have breached their duty rto citizens and alleges violation of state laws to help the...

LAPD Officer John “Rusty” Redican Offers Thoughts on Homeless

This is an interesting read from Pacific Palisades Homeless Task Force PPHTF. MBSAFE is modeled after PPHTF which is a resident group...

She was homeless, sleeping outside a condemned house, 6 months ago. Now, she’s a published author

We love inspiring stories like this... and the model of the shelter program: adderss a person's personal goals vs. telling people what...

Covid and Homelessness

With the spread of the deadly Corona crisis threatening lives around the globe, we cannot help but worry about the homeless population...