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NEWS
RITA CRABTREE-KAMPE, MBSAFE PRESIDENT, INTERVIEWED BY MBWEEKLY
https://mbweekly.net/2024/08/
Gavin Newsom’s Homeless Accountability Veto
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/california-gavin-newsom-homelessness-accountability-state-agencies-30a7849c?fbclid=IwY2xjawGOYuVleHRuA2FlbQIx...
70% of L.A. County rooms for the homeless remain vacant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKJ5CBzhD5o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKJ5CBzhD5o
LA County taking action to transform 162 acres of long-vacant property into a "mental health village" with 219 beds for those struggling with homelessness and mental health challenge
https://www.whittierdailynews.com/2024/09/23/newsom-oks-la-county-plan-to-build-norwalk-mental-health-village-at-unused-state-facility/?c...
'We Have A Responsibility To Do More And Better': Newsom Highlights Efforts To Remove LA Encampments
With television cameras rolling and traffic on a busy San Fernando Valley freeway humming in the background, Gov. Gavin Newsom threatened...
GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM URGES COUNTIES TO EXPAND CONSERVATORSHIP LAWS TO COMBAT HOMELESSNESS, OTHER CRISIS
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is urging California counties to implement a new law that makes it easier to appoint a conservator to direct...
Behind the Homeless Surge in California’s High Desert
A homeless individual lives in an old RV that sits in the Mojave desert, near Lancaster, Calif., on July 10, 2024. (John Fredricks/The...
NEWSOM WILL ORDER CALIFORNIA OFFICIALS TO REMOVE HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS
The directive from Gov. Gavin Newsom is the nation’s most sweeping response to a Supreme Court decision last month that gave local...
After Homelessness Ruling, Cities Weigh Whether to Clear Encampments
FOLSOM, Calif. — K.C. Alvey treads carefully when she and her dog, Stuart, walk the dappled trail behind their apartment in Folsom,...
$143 million mental-health treatment facility approved for Boyle Heights hospital campus
The Board of Supervisors today approved the $143 million development of a 96-bed mental-health treatment facility at Los Angeles General...
Supreme Court ruling may push more homeless into L.A., Mayor Karen Bass says
A homeless man sleeps on a Metro bus bench at 8th and Alvarado streets in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. A community group found...
For the first time since 2018, homeless count finds fewer people living on L.A. streets
Thomas Richardson, left, and cousin Tatayana Noles, right, gather up belongings in a tent encampment at 86th Street and Broadway on...
Metro outreach team takes the early shift in Los Angeles, helping the homeless
Demetric Woodard, a case manager with PATH’s early morning Metro outreach team, approaches Cedrick Cosey and Marlow Johnson outside the...
Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Sleeping Outdoors in Homelessness
Likely to have broad ramifications throughout the West, the court found an Oregon city’s penalties did not violate the Constitution’s...
OPINION: LA Is the Go-To Destination for Transients: Just Ask Burbank PD
The reactions were swift. The City Council reacted in disbelief and demanded answers. Council president Paul Krekorian was outraged. For...
Homelessness isn’t helplessness, but Housing First assumes it is
In a 2006 New Yorker article, “Million-Dollar Murray,” author Malcolm Gladwell told the story of Murray Barr, an alcoholic who had spent...
Has historic investment reduced LA’s homeless population? We’ll know next week
2024 homeless count results will be released June 28, shedding light on push to house Angelenos The city and county of Los Angeles made...
Westside Current Investigation Finds Hundreds More Vacant Units of Homeless Housing in 3 California Counties
Executives at a development company that received $121 million in taxpayer funds through Project Homekey are accused of running a “real...
For an Older Homeless Population, a New Type of Care
Programs are sprouting across the country to provide nursing home and rehabilitation services to homeless people who would otherwise...
Is Another $1.2 Billion Tax Increase Justifiable?
The Homeless Industrial Complex has obtained enough signatures to place the Affordable Housing, Homeless Solutions and Prevention Now...
Homelessness: PIT Counts, Trust, and People
“If you want a friend you can trust, get a dog”. -Harry S Truman Sacramento just released the results of its most recent Point in Time...
How shots instead of pills could change California’s homeless crisis
IN SUMMARY Doctors on the front lines of California’s homelessness and mental health crises are using monthly injections to treat...
California's Big Plan To Get Help For People With Serious Mental Illness Is Off To A Slow Start
It’s been six months since Los Angeles County launched a new program aimed at getting more people with serious mental illness into...
Democrats kill California homeless camp ban, again
A bill to ban homeless encampments statewide near parks, schools and transit hubs failed to get out of the same legislative committee as...
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