Paul Webster is Executive Director of the Los Angeles Alliance for Human Rights and Founder and Director the Hope Street Coalition, with...

If you’ve been following the news lately, a few stories about homelessness may have caught your eye. The County released the latest...

He was ensnared in Ithaca’s homeless encampment. Then, in a blur of violence, he was gone The sprawling homeless encampment behind a...

Hans Christian Anderson wrote a folk tale about an emperor who is obsessed with fancy new clothes, and spent lavishly on them at the...

An NBC4 I-Team investigation finds some fires are apparently started when the homeless tap into city electrical wires to bring power to...

Neighborhoods from Imperial to Del Norte Counties resemble third world war zones — What is it going to take? It was supposed to be...

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health released a report on Thursday highlighting that drug and alcohol overdoses continue to...

In May 2024, Los Angeles is grappling with a significant public health crisis: an outbreak of Hepatitis A among the homeless population....

Californians for Safer Communities Coalition announced Thursday in Culver City it will submit over 900,000 voter signatures to qualify...

Useful it may be. User-friendly or transparent it’s not. That’s the judgment of a 10-page report card on the website mounted by the city...

Can the Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act rein in the state’s property crime and drug problems? Congressman Kevin...

Most people know the definition of the word bedlam; a scene of confusion, panic and hysteria. The word is derived from an old English...

Most of my columns focus on the numbers and costs of homelessness policy.  I believe if you present facts and figures in their proper...

In summary A bill to ban homeless encampments statewide near parks, schools and transit hubs failed to get out of the same legislative...

The U.S. Supreme Court is about to hear the biggest case about homelessness in decades, and it seems like everyone in California has an...

The US Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments about what cities can and cannot do to end homelessness. "What if there is a bed...

The City continues to add data to its new homelessness program website; one of the latest additions are reports and billings for the Safe...

Siyamak sits down with Mark Ryavec, president of the Venice Stakeholders Association, who served as a municipal staffer for the LA City...

The Supreme Court is poised to hear its most important case ever on the homelessness crisis, and to decide whether cities in California...

A majority of the justices appeared skeptical of courts wading into the thorny policy questions around when local governments can punish...

California has failed to adequately monitor the outcomes of its vast spending on homelessness programs, according to a state audit...

In summary Public agencies are funding private security guards in homeless shelters and on the street, opening a new front in the state’s...

California is not doing enough to track and evaluate efforts to address homelessness — despite billions of dollars spent to address the...