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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 ...
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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 ...
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...
What To Do About Homelessness The Smerconish Podcast
Michael looks at a plan set forth by New York City Mayor Eric Adams to involuntarily hospitalize certain homeless people, and asks what...
California is fighting homelessness, but New York is taking on the real problem
How do we know when someone is too mentally ill to make their own decisions? When to take away rights is a problem we have dodged for...
‘Housing first’ is a failed approach to chronic homelessness in California
How much money is enough to solve the homelessness crisis, and on what should it be spent? Every poll shows that Californians list...
‘We’ let blind, mentally ill, homeless Mark Rippee die in Vacaville. But let’s name names
Melinda Henneberger Thu, December 1, 2022 at 8:30 AM James Mark Rippee, who was blind, severely mentally ill, homeless — and unhelped,...
On City Streets, Fear and Hope as Mayor Pushes to Remove Mentally Ill
Mayor Eric Adams intends to remove people with severe, untreated mental illness from the streets. That will mean involuntary...
New York’s Plan to Address Crisis of Mentally Ill Faces High Hurdles
Many city residents agree something needs to be done to remove people with severe mental illness from public places. But some experts...
Mayor Eric Adams says New York YC will treat mentally ill, even if they refuse
New York City’s mayor on Tuesday said he was directing police and city medics to be more aggressive about getting severely mentally ill...
Fentanyl’s scourge is plainly visible on the streets of Los Angeles
Ryan Smith, a 36-year-old homeless addict, falls asleep after smoking fentanyl in Los Angeles, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. Nearly 2,000...
About-face: Why Newsom relented, released $1 billion despite lackluster local homeless plans
Two weeks after withholding $1 billion in homelessness funding over lackluster local plans, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday that ...
Elections Delay Homeless Lawsuit Resolution
A U.S. District Court judge put off Monday a final resolution of a lawsuit that could force L.A. County and City to expand services and...
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