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LA Metro survey: About 600 homeless riders exit nightly when train service ends

The unhoused riders on LA Metro buses and trains are only half the problem. The county transit agency has learned that the other half —...

California shifts to an experiment in coercion to treat the homeless

A new court system seeks to find a middle road between jail and ignoring the mentally ill, many of whom live on the streets A homeless...

How compulsory arrest and recovery could help homeless addicts

Author Jared Klickstein was once one of the thousands of homeless drug addicts living on the streets in Los Angeles. Sick, a criminal and...

California cities are cracking down on homeless camps. Will the state get tougher, too?

Technically, the encampment of about a dozen tents at W Street and Alhambra Boulevard in Sacramento is illegal. The tents, tarps and...

Torrance gives tiny home village for homeless another 2 years

Armed with grant funding, the Torrance City Council on Tuesday voted to give its temporary housing village another two years of...

Popular Boyle Heights jogging path blocked by RV dwellers; some residents complain

As he walked briskly around Evergreen Cemetery in Boyle Heights, Tony Marquez used his cane to bat away empty soda and beer bottles....

@JohnandKenShow talk to Rev Andy Bales about the Homeless Industrial Complex on Skid Row

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SACRAMENTO HOMELESS ENCAMPMENT WINS A LEASE — AND HOPES TO BE A MODEL FOR CALIFORNIA

Residents at an encampment who successfully negotiated a formal lease with the city of Sacramento called on homeless people across the...

When homelessness and mental illness overlap, is compulsory treatment compassionate?

But the combination of homelessness with substance use or untreated mental illnesses has led to a lot of very public tragedies. People...

Prescription for housing? California wants Medicaid to cover 6 months of rent

Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose administration is struggling to contain a worsening homelessness crisis despite record spending, is trying ...

Gavin Newsom wants voters to approve his plan to fund housing for mentally ill people

Californians would vote on a plan to fund housing for people with mental illness under a proposal Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled Sunday....

Los Angeles plans to help stabilize Skid Row Housing Trust buildings

The degraded state of the Sanborn Hotel Apartments is apparent from the sidewalk. Holes have been smashed in the wire-reinforced windows...

A SANDWICH SHOP, A TENT CITY AND AN AMERICAN CRISIS

Espy said as she took out a pair of scissors, scrubbed them with hand sanitizer and started to cut away a few of his stitches. She wiped...

Governor Newsom Homelessness Funding and Housing

As part of his tour of the state, Governor Gavin Newsom joins legislative partners and local leaders for an announcement on and a new...

Newsom raises the bar with a goal to cut homelessness by 15%

After criticizing local officials for failing to adequately address the pernicious problem of homelessness in California, Gov. Gavin...

Angelenos taxed themselves to raise $1.2B to house homeless. Did it work?

In 2016, as the number of people living on the streets of Los Angeles climbed ever higher, Angelenos were itching for a solution to the ...

A failing mental health system leaves this mother pleading to keep her son in jail

According to the California Healthcare Foundation, nearly one in seven adults in California experience some form of mental illness. And...

The real reason why L.A. has so many RV homeless encampments

For five nights, Melissa Grady refused to sleep. She told me this on a recent afternoon, rubbing her eyes with blackened hands, while ...

INSIDE LA COUNTY'S LARGEST CONCENTRATION OF HOMELESS RVS

In LA County, more than 500 homeless RVs line the streets for miles, creating a scene that looks more like a third-world country than...

'Tranq,' aka xylazine, may worsen California overdose crisis

A new drug — a sedative normally used for animals — is increasingly making its way into the illicit drug trade in California, and local ...

To Save Her Son, a Mother Wants Him Treated Against His Will

Her son was “losing his mind.” But how do you help someone who doesn’t believe he is mentally ill? Kimberly is a mom whose 22-year-old son...

Long Beach axes plan to use community gym for unhoused residents

Long Beach officials on Tuesday announced they had halted plans to set up a temporary winter homeless shelter at a community gym after ...

Startling increase in deaths of Orange County homeless people

More homeless people in Orange County are dying each year, and accidental drug overdoses involving fentanyl are a leading reason why, ...

HUNTINGTON BEACH MOVES ON NEW LAWS TARGETING HOMELESS PEOPLE IN PARKS AND PARKING STRUCTURES

The proposed rules come as a new council majority campaigned on a 90-day plan to end homelessness in city limits, pledging in a January ...

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