Miami Beach initiative encourages people experiencing homelessness to use services, sheltersThe mayor, commissioners, police chief and leaders of Miami Beach homeless outreach said Operation Summer Relief will deliver an extra boost of resources offered, including access to shelters.J...
*The above shows data from the Los Angeles Continuum of Care, which excludes the cities of Glendale, Long Beach, and Pasadena. Current Interim Housing This map shows where existing shelters and other forms of interim housing are located as of June 2024. These locations provide people experiencing...
More than 230 people were seriously injured. Thousands of homes and buildings were damaged and those displaced camped wherever they could — in sports fields and on roadsides, cobbling together ramshackle shelters and building campfires for warmth. Sahril, who uses one name, said he escaped hi...
I’ve never had it easy, but now, I’ve lost everything By Willi Boepple, Broadview, November 25, 2021 https://broadview.org/willi Over the course of 2021, Willi Boepple sent more than a dozen emails to Broadview magazine. The letters told of life in homeless shelters and the people...
cities are overwhelmed with homelessness needs and the proliferation of encampments in their communities,” said Bea Dieringer, president of the Los Angeles County Division of the League of California Cities. “They desperately need the county’s help to ...
The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday is slated to take up an emergency declaration to attack the city’s homelessness crisis with initiatives that could include opening shelters on public and private land, authorizing parking lots where homeless people can sleep in cars and vans, and developing...
Meanwhile, the number of people living unsheltered increased by 24% as the number of those in shelters and other temporary living situations dropped by 27% [36]. The 2020 point-in-time count indicated that of the 2034 total homeless population in Long Beach, 1582 (78%) were unsheltered....