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A graphic designer has testified at Sean “Diddy” Combs' sex trafficking trial that he once dangled her over a high-rise building's balcony in Los Angeles, leaving her so traumatized that she sometimes screamed in her sleep afterward
Homelessness is surging in Los Angeles County and across California, where most major cities have seen double-digit increases in their share of residents experiencing homelessness since last year. Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas told The Los Angeles Times,“At this point of ...
An alarming two-fold increase in percentages of overdose deaths involving fentanyl was observed among PEH in Los Angeles (LA) County from 2019 to mid-2020 (Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and Center for Health Impact Evaluation, 2021). Relatedly, even with the excess mortality ...
Christopher Giamarino, Evelyn Blumenberg, and Madeline Brozen explore another form of homelessness in "Who Lives in Vehicles and Why? Understanding Vehicular Homelessness in Los Angeles." They draw on a large local survey to show that people living in vehicles tend to have different ...
both requires and enhances a sense of predictability that gives meaning to future-oriented action (Plage et al., 2024). Such practices surrounding home cultivate caring relations as this participant noted when discussing a photograph of his balcony garden in permanent supportive housing (Fig. 4):...
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The city of Los Angeles opens a 102-unit apartment complex for the homeless in Skid Row. Other cities and states have figured out that just housing the homeless is actually cheaper than providing emergency services all the time -- but not every city has put a gym, a library, and an art...
COVID-19 vaccine access and attitudes among people experiencing homelessness from pilot mobile phone survey in Los Angeles, CA PLoS One, 16 (7) (2021), 10.1371/journal.pone.0255246 Google Scholar [14] A. Meehan, K. Aarvig, M. Kashani, A. Whitton, E. Mosites COVID-19 vaccine acceptabi...
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