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If anyone’s gonna cause homeless deaths in this town, it’s gonna be us.
L.A.’S POLITICAL CLASS SHOCKED AND APPALLED THAT SOMEONE KILLED AS MANY HOMELESS PEOPLE IN A WEEK AS THEY ALLOW TO DIE EVERY DAY A gunman...
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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...
Allowing people to suffer in homeless encampments under our highways is a policy choice
A fire broke out under a major Los Angeles freeway. On Tuesday morning. KTLA’s Sky5 helicopter shot video of the fire burning next to the...
Emergency calls piling up at L.A.’s tiny home villages
Los Angeles now has 11 tiny home villages built by the city and largely operated with government funds. Chandler Blvd. was the first,...
A Monster’: Super Meth and Other Drugs Push Crisis Beyond Opioids
Millions of U.S. drug users now are addicted to several substances, not just opioids like fentanyl and heroin. The shift is making...
Frustration all across the board.' A day with homelessness outreach workers in L.A.
Imagine going to work every day knowing that people you're trying to help might hide from you. And even when they ask for help, you're...
Housing alone won’t solve homelessness. California must expand its mental health system
I have learned a lot about how easy it is for someone to fall through the cracks, especially when it comes to mental health care where...
NEWSOM ANNOUNCES STATE OF EMERGENCY AFTER FIRE SHUTS DOWN 10 FREEWAY IN DOWNTOWN LA. THE CAUSE OF TH
"It's quite a large population of people experiencing homelessness living out here on these streets and RVs and makeshift homes, and they...
Return of RVs, trash creates unbearable dilemma for Florence-Firestone residents
Just weeks after county officials took action, clearing Florence-Firestone streets of rampant debris and RVs illegally parked in the...
Phoenix Encampment Is Gone, but the City’s Homeless Crisis Persists
The city was under a court order to dismantle “the Zone,” a sprawling downtown homeless encampment, by Saturday. Brenda Lowery, a social...
Andy Bales made a big difference in Los Angeles
Union Rescue Mission CEO Andy Bales outside the mission on San Pedro Street in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles, Tuesday, August 30, ...
A matter of life and death
LA Metro directors ordered a new, comprehensive action plan to address the more than 800 unhoused individuals who use trains and buses as...
To tackle homelessness faster, LA has a kind of real estate agency for the unhoused
Dan Valdez's mission can seem impossible. .Valdez is with the nonprofit Brilliant Corners, which partners with L.A. County's Department...
To sweep homeless camps, California cities say they offer shelter. What that really means is up for
In summary Police can’t force homeless people from encampments unless the city in question has “adequate shelter” Cities in the West...
Fallout of Skid Row Housing Trust collapse big and small: broken promises, homelessness, lost dentur
By the time of the fire in February, half of the Dewey’s 43 units were empty. Many remaining residents had lived there for years. When ...
Supervisors demand urgency in L.A. County’s efforts to address homelessness, RVs
Los Angeles County supervisors on Tuesday pushed the head of the county's homeless initiative and other county leaders to move faster in...
He’s a Dab of Glue in a Broken City
“Two guys fighting on the side of our garbage chute,” read one alert, from a coffee shop." “Man threatening people with a dagger,” read...
SAN FRANCISCO CAN ENFORCE LAWS ON HOMELESS WHO REFUSE SHELTER SERVICES
An issue throughout the legal conflict has been whether or not the city can forcefully move people who are considered “involuntarily...
IN RARE ALLIANCE, DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS SEEK LEGAL POWER TO CLEAR HOMELESS CAMPS
Garbage, feces and needles run through the rivers in Missoula, Mont. On the streets of San Francisco, tents are so thick that sidewalks...
LA County: 3,000 new mental health, substance use treatment beds26. September 2023 0
Facing the prospect of a trial neither side wanted, Los Angeles County and the plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking more homeless services...
Why Recognizing Housing First’s Failure is So Important
As anyone who’s read my columns over the past few months can tell, I often write about how badly Housing First policies have failed Los ...
How can LA combat its fentanyl crisis? MacArthur Park offers clues
Fentanyl is a highly addictive, synthetic opioid 50 times as potent as heroin. It was the primary contributor to the 55% uptick in the...
ILLICIT FENTANYL KILLS USERS MORE QUICKLY THAN ANY OTHER DRUG TO EVER APPEAR ON AMERICAN STREETS
In a time of fentanyl and meth, we need to use law enforcement differently—and more often. By Sam Quinones Preliminary data from the CDC...
A $28 Million Low-Income Apartment Complex Descends Into Chaos in Just Two and a Half Years
“I thought I was moving into Shangri-La.” At first glance, the Buri Building in the Hazelwood neighborhood looks like an ideal way to...
Next Month, Portland Police Can Arrest People Camping Who Refuse Shelter
Next Month, Portland Police Can Arrest People Camping Who Refuse Shelter The City Council vote signals a marked departure in how the city...
Housing First has failed. The homeless crisis in California demands a swift, effective response.
A recent article I read asked, “Is a philosophy destroying Los Angeles?” The answer is a resounding yes, unfortunately. I’ll never forget...
Bass' Inside Safe plan faces resistance in downtown L.A.
Homeless outreach workers went to the streets of downtown Los Angeles last month and delivered what is now a seasoned sales pitch: Give...
Seniors are flooding homeless shelters that can’t care for them
Nearly a quarter of a million people55 or older are estimated by the government to have been homeless in the United States during at...
With fentanyl deaths soaring, L.A. County is giving out drug pipes and other supplies
By a line of ragged RVs slung along 78th Street in South Los Angeles, a seven-member team passes out glass pipes used for smoking...
A path forward for cleaning up California’s cities?
By Austin Vanderheyden May 21, 2023 at 6:05 a.m. Californians are fed up with watching homeless encampments take over their streets. ...
RV Encampment Clean-Up Day: Harbor Gateway
RV encampments take over Harbor Gateway
Two years to get a homeless friend housed
Los Angeles resident Nicholas Melillo explains how he spent more than two years maneuvering through bureaucratic red tape to secure...
California cities are cracking down on homeless camps. Will the state get tougher, too?
In summary Democratic voters in California cities are pushing mayors and city councils to clear homeless camps. Leaders are responding...
A 15-story hotel could help L.A.'s mayor fight homelessness
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ homelessness team is looking to purchase a 15-story hotel in the city’s Westlake neighborhood, the latest...
NIMBYism over housing spans race and politics, firing up suburban protests
Residents oppose L.A. County’s plan to convert a Motel 6 into permanent housing for homeless people in Hacienda Heights.(Luis Sinco / Los...
San Diego clears homeless encampment after residents get criminal acts on video
https://www.kusi.com/san-diego-clears-homeless-encampment-after-residents-get-criminal-acts-on-video/
LA nonprofit hands out meth pipes to homeless on Skid Row
A local nonprofit is passing out crystal meth pipes to the homeless population of Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. According to...
Phoenix to Start Clearing Sprawling Downtown Homeless Encampment
Phoenix officials will begin clearing one of the nation’s largest homeless encampments this week in a downtown area known as the Zone,...
Fentanyl overdoses fuel surge in L.A. County homeless deaths
To save lives, the L.A. County Public Health Department argued that many changes are needed, including ramping up the distribution of...
California’s next housing crackdown could force cities to plan more homeless shelters
In summary California cities of every size lack shelter beds for the state’s growing homeless population. A new bill would force local...
‘Whatever It Takes’: The Street Teams Who Help Mentally Ill New Yorkers
Intensive mobile treatment teams meet mentally ill clients where they are. Chris Payton and Sonia Daley visited M in Lower Manhattan....
Low wages, short hours drive many fast-food workers into homelessness - Los Angeles Times
When Jose de la Torre began delivering pizzas for Papa Johns in 2019, he made $15 an hour and shared a one-bedroom apartment in the ...
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...
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