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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...

Michael Shellenberger: Does Poverty Cause Homelessness?

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...