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Homeless Man Shares the Harsh Reality of Skid Row

Skid Row hurt me in ways I can't ever explain. It made me do things and made see things I wish I would have never seen." ~ Luke Luke's...

L.A. homeless people finding refuge of their own in historic storm

As L.A.’s overwhelmed shelters filled up Friday, finding refuge from the pounding rain and freezing temperatures became a personal...

As counties set up new mental health courts, people with mental illness face a broken system

Melanie Klinkamon said she finds herself hoping that her daughter will break her foot. Klinkamon, a West Sacramento resident, said she ...

Former Sheriff Reveals What's Behind Los Angeles' Homelessness | Alex Villanueva

We achieved incredible amount of progress in four years. But the progress is threatening to a corrupt administration. That's why I'm now...

Crack Addict interview-Annette

She is wise beyond measures......

Los Angeles is offering the homeless motel rooms ... but with some tricky conditions

Nick Watt reports on Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass' initiative to clear encampments on city streets and house the homeless in motels until...

Why hotel rooms for L.A.'s homeless sit empty

A room at the Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) More than 40,000 people are experiencing homelessness...

Skid Row Housing Trust is in financial trouble

Skid row’s flagship owner and operator of subsidized housing is on the verge of financial collapse and seeking a lifeline to keep its...

Southern California homeless shelters struggle to bring people in from cold temperatures

Unhoused people can be seen on the sidewalks and in the alleys in Venice during the Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count on Wednesday,...

Weekly Restroom Encampment Clean-up in Venice

City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works sanitation workers in white hazardous materials suits, with Action Environmental Services,...

Lost Angeles: City of Homeless

A new documentary, Lost Angeles: City of Homeless, takes a close look at the out-of-control homeless issue in Southern California....

A vast, teeming retirement community called skid row

Earlie King Jr. says he was in his late 20s when he took up residence in a skid row alley downtown. He didn’t intend to grow old there,...

California’s most famous homeless man is dead. His life should guide CARE Court

Officially, he was killed by pneumonia and sepsis that led to organ failure, but the real cause is the ugly fight between civil...

CARE Courts coming to California in 2023

A faded American flag hangs outside of a pitched tent on the Santa Ana River trail as an unhoused person walks into the tent in Anaheim...

LA is losing the battle against mental illness among its homeless

Dr. Brian Benjamin, a psychiatrist specializing in serving the homeless, was excited to tell one of his regular clients that a shelter...

THE HIGH COST OF OUR STATE’S HOMELESS CRISIS

California spent $13 billion on homelessness between 2018 and 2020, and in 2021 Gov. Gavin Newsom signed bills to spend another $12...

CARE Court opponents take their complaints to the California Supreme Court

CARE Court is a program that empowers or compels – depending on who you ask – individuals with severe mental illness to access...

HOMELESSNESS AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING!WHAT TO DO?

SPEAKER: Brian Ulf, Board President of SHARE! With Los Angeles struggling to find cost effective housing and supportive services for its...

Opinion: The Homeless Industrial Complex

Insisting housing construction is the only solution to homelessness, a policy that’s resulted in an “unacceptably slow” rate of building...

Homeless count: Experts tweak methodology this year, but it remains a mammoth task

Every year Los Angeles County faces the daunting task of counting its growing, ever on-the-move homeless population. While some view the...

Housing First’s Imperial Overreach

The policy shouldn’t be as dominant as it is. Housing First is the dominant approach to homelessness policy in America. Housing First...

More street medicine teams tackle the homeless health care crisis

Physician's assistant Brett Feldman does a checkup on his patient Gary Dela Cruz on the side of the road near his encampment in downtown...

How Frighteningly Strong Meth Has Supercharged Homelessness

Sam Quinones has covered gangs, crime, and the border for 35 years, including a ten-year stint at the L.A. Times. He established himself...

Amid homelessness crisis, why is L.A.'s Cecil Hotel mostly empty?

At a time when more than 40,000 people are experiencing homelessness in the city, it may seem unfathomable for 400 units to be sitting...

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