The challenges are enormous, even if everyone is pulling in the same direction. That reality was driven home this month by a new Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority report showing that the county’s homeless population i...
This map shows where people are experiencing homelessness Countywide according to the January 2023 Point-in-Time Count. The tallies on the left show the breakdown by Service Planning Area (SPA) as shown on the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA)reportsby SPA. This represents the ent...
People in marginalized groups are particularly vulnerable to falling into homelessness: Black people represent only 8% of Los Angeles’ population but make up34% of the city’s unhoused population. Centuries of American history contribute to this overrepresentation, including decades of racist housing...
Standing alongside Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and LA County Supervisors, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the state's latest round of funding and preached that urgency is the sole option in tackling California's homeless crisis.
Opinion: Homeless, when you just can’t afford the rent July 23, 2023 But many Californians will still remain unhoused. The best way to service this population is to move away from criminalizing and stigmatizing drug use. Recently, theSan Francisco Police Departmentarrested 4...
Watch:A look at the proposed Measure G, expanding the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Measure G, which is officially called the "Los Angeles County Government Structure, Ethics and Accountability Charter Amendment," was proposed by Supervisors Lindsey Horvath and Janice Ha...
The heartbreaking video on social media comes as the homeless crisis continues to haunt Southern California. A report published in 2023 revealed the homeless head count across Los Angeles went up 10% while the population went up by 9% countywide the year prior to that.....
Census; Los Angeles Leads the Nation in Homelessness; Blacks are Largest Segment of the Homeless PopulationOliver, Lela Ward
Homeless shelter beds going unused in LA County A recent audit by the Los Angeles Controller showed that nearly a quarter of homeless shelter beds in LA County went unused from 2019-2023, costing the city more than a quarter of a billion dollars. ...
Dec. 17, 2023 Or it may be because the conversation, when it does take place, too often devolves into ideological extremes, with one factioninsisting that the bulk of L.A.’s homeless populationis on the street because of drug use, and another faction equally adamant that homelessness is...