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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...