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'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...
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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...
Paul Webster Los Angeles Alliance for Human Rights 05/21/2024
Paul Webster is Executive Director of the Los Angeles Alliance for Human Rights and Founder and Director the Hope Street Coalition, with...
Homeless Havoc Exposes Fatal Flaws in Advocacy with Rising Overdose Deaths and Safety Concerns
If you’ve been following the news lately, a few stories about homelessness may have caught your eye. The County released the latest...
When Tommy Rath Vanished From ‘the Jungle’
He was ensnared in Ithaca’s homeless encampment. Then, in a blur of violence, he was gone The sprawling homeless encampment behind a...
Safe Parking: The Emperor’s New Clothes
Hans Christian Anderson wrote a folk tale about an emperor who is obsessed with fancy new clothes, and spent lavishly on them at the...
Up in flames: Rising number of homeless fires threatens LA neighborhoods
An NBC4 I-Team investigation finds some fires are apparently started when the homeless tap into city electrical wires to bring power to...
When it comes to homelessness, how many more ways can California fail?
Neighborhoods from Imperial to Del Norte Counties resemble third world war zones — What is it going to take? It was supposed to be...
Homeless Deaths in LA County: Drug and Alcohol Overdoses Remain Leading Cause in 2022
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health released a report on Thursday highlighting that drug and alcohol overdoses continue to...
Hepatitis A Outbreak Amongst Homeless in LA: A Growing Crisis in May 2024
In May 2024, Los Angeles is grappling with a significant public health crisis: an outbreak of Hepatitis A among the homeless population....
Community Safety Measure Gains Momentum with 900,000 Signatures for November Ballot
Californians for Safer Communities Coalition announced Thursday in Culver City it will submit over 900,000 voter signatures to qualify...
L.A. City’s homelessness website falls short of goal to be transparent, critics say
Useful it may be. User-friendly or transparent it’s not. That’s the judgment of a 10-page report card on the website mounted by the city...
Reversing California’s Decline
Can the Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act rein in the state’s property crime and drug problems? Congressman Kevin...
Los Angeles: A Modern-Day Bedlam, a Madhouse
Most people know the definition of the word bedlam; a scene of confusion, panic and hysteria. The word is derived from an old English...
Morality, Homelessness Policy, and the Supreme Court
Most of my columns focus on the numbers and costs of homelessness policy. I believe if you present facts and figures in their proper...
Democrats kill California homeless camp ban, again
In summary A bill to ban homeless encampments statewide near parks, schools and transit hubs failed to get out of the same legislative...
California leaders take sides in monumental Supreme Court case on homelessness
The U.S. Supreme Court is about to hear the biggest case about homelessness in decades, and it seems like everyone in California has an...
The Dirty Little Secret About Homelessness Is Also The Key To Ending It
The US Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments about what cities can and cannot do to end homelessness. "What if there is a bed...
Unraveling the Knot: Discrepancies in LA's Safe Parking and Homelessness Program Metrics and Billing
The City continues to add data to its new homelessness program website; one of the latest additions are reports and billings for the Safe...
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...
Supreme Court tackles homelessness crisis. What that means for California
The Supreme Court is poised to hear its most important case ever on the homelessness crisis, and to decide whether cities in California...
Supreme Court Seems Poised to Allow Local Laws That Penalize Homelessness
A majority of the justices appeared skeptical of courts wading into the thorny policy questions around when local governments can punish...
California spent billions on homelessness without tracking if it worked
California has failed to adequately monitor the outcomes of its vast spending on homelessness programs, according to a state audit...
Meth, death and abuse: Inside the private security forces patrolling California’s homeless
In summary Public agencies are funding private security guards in homeless shelters and on the street, opening a new front in the state’s...
California’s $20 Billion Effort to Combat Homelessness Fails to Curb Rising Unhoused Population
California is not doing enough to track and evaluate efforts to address homelessness — despite billions of dollars spent to address the...
Ghost Town Management Sweeps Away Encampment, Reclaims Lincoln and Rose from Homelessness
Following the City of Los Angeles' weekly cleanup operation at Lincoln and Rose Avenue, Ghost Town Management has been instrumental in...
Malibu's homeless numbers are down, city blurts out ahead of official count
"Malibu hasn't done anything for the homeless," says Elvin Rudolph Dekle, 69, who spends most of his days in Legacy Park. The city, which...
Audit Blasts LA County for Failing Homeless and Mentally Ill, $286M Unspent
A recent audit, conducted by Tim Campbell for the LA Alliance for Human Rights, —an organization consisting of a wide range of Los...
ICYMI: Federal Judge Greenlights Scope of Audit on L.A. Homelessness Initiatives
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Friday adopted plans for a comprehensive financial and performance audit of each and every homelessness...
Where did homeless people die in Los Angeles in 2023?
City Council District 3 in San Fernando Valley had least deaths and District 14, including Skid Row, had most Nine hundred homeless...
California’s Multi-Million Dollars CARE Court Program Flops After 6 Months
California has invested significant resources in a new mental health court program aimed at helping individuals struggling with...
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