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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,...
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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...
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