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New tool to reduce homeless camps: L.A. County leases apartment building for former RV dwellers

Looking back, life in the RV camp wasn’t all bad. There were some good people living in the clusters of RVs scattered throughout...

California Is Burning

Recent fires in the Golden State seem linked to homeless encampments. Photo by Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images California...

Inside the world’s largest AIDS charity’s troubled move into homeless housing

After her eviction, Alisha Lucero returned to her apartment to find her belongings thrown away. Gone were Lucero’s passport and her...

If anyone’s gonna cause homeless deaths in this town, it’s gonna be us.

L.A.’S POLITICAL CLASS SHOCKED AND APPALLED THAT SOMEONE KILLED AS MANY HOMELESS PEOPLE IN A WEEK AS THEY ALLOW TO DIE EVERY DAY A gunman...

LOS ANGELES RESIDENT EXPLAINS THE IMPACTS OF RV ENCAMPMENTS IN HIS COMMUNITY

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

Allowing people to suffer in homeless encampments under our highways is a policy choice

A fire broke out under a major Los Angeles freeway. On Tuesday morning. KTLA’s Sky5 helicopter shot video of the fire burning next to the...

Emergency calls piling up at L.A.’s tiny home villages

Los Angeles now has 11 tiny home villages built by the city and largely operated with government funds. Chandler Blvd. was the first,...

A Monster’: Super Meth and Other Drugs Push Crisis Beyond Opioids

Millions of U.S. drug users now are addicted to several substances, not just opioids like fentanyl and heroin. The shift is making...

Frustration all across the board.' A day with homelessness outreach workers in L.A.

Imagine going to work every day knowing that people you're trying to help might hide from you. And even when they ask for help, you're...

Housing alone won’t solve homelessness. California must expand its mental health system

I have learned a lot about how easy it is for someone to fall through the cracks, especially when it comes to mental health care where...

NEWSOM ANNOUNCES STATE OF EMERGENCY AFTER FIRE SHUTS DOWN 10 FREEWAY IN DOWNTOWN LA. THE CAUSE OF TH

"It's quite a large population of people experiencing homelessness living out here on these streets and RVs and makeshift homes, and they...

Return of RVs, trash creates unbearable dilemma for Florence-Firestone residents

Just weeks after county officials took action, clearing Florence-Firestone streets of rampant debris and RVs illegally parked in the...

Phoenix Encampment Is Gone, but the City’s Homeless Crisis Persists

The city was under a court order to dismantle “the Zone,” a sprawling downtown homeless encampment, by Saturday. Brenda Lowery, a social...

Andy Bales made a big difference in Los Angeles

Union Rescue Mission CEO Andy Bales outside the mission on San Pedro Street in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles, Tuesday, August 30, ...

A matter of life and death

LA Metro directors ordered a new, comprehensive action plan to address the more than 800 unhoused individuals who use trains and buses as...

To tackle homelessness faster, LA has a kind of real estate agency for the unhoused

Dan Valdez's mission can seem impossible. .Valdez is with the nonprofit Brilliant Corners, which partners with L.A. County's Department...

To sweep homeless camps, California cities say they offer shelter. What that really means is up for

In summary Police can’t force homeless people from encampments unless the city in question has “adequate shelter” Cities in the West...

Fallout of Skid Row Housing Trust collapse big and small: broken promises, homelessness, lost dentur

By the time of the fire in February, half of the Dewey’s 43 units were empty. Many remaining residents had lived there for years. When ...

Supervisors demand urgency in L.A. County’s efforts to address homelessness, RVs

Los Angeles County supervisors on Tuesday pushed the head of the county's homeless initiative and other county leaders to move faster in...

He’s a Dab of Glue in a Broken City

“Two guys fighting on the side of our garbage chute,” read one alert, from a coffee shop." “Man threatening people with a dagger,” read...

SAN FRANCISCO CAN ENFORCE LAWS ON HOMELESS WHO REFUSE SHELTER SERVICES

An issue throughout the legal conflict has been whether or not the city can forcefully move people who are considered “involuntarily...

IN RARE ALLIANCE, DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS SEEK LEGAL POWER TO CLEAR HOMELESS CAMPS

Garbage, feces and needles run through the rivers in Missoula, Mont. On the streets of San Francisco, tents are so thick that sidewalks...

LA County: 3,000 new mental health, substance use treatment beds26. September 2023 0

Facing the prospect of a trial neither side wanted, Los Angeles County and the plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking more homeless services...

Why Recognizing Housing First’s Failure is So Important

As anyone who’s read my columns over the past few months can tell, I often write about how badly Housing First policies have failed Los ...

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