LA County audits City's homeless services The city of Los Angeles spends millions of dollars to try and house the homeless, but after an audit of the city's services, the County Board of Supervisors is proposing the services move to the county's jurisdiction. ...
Los Angeles County’s homelessness situationis unlike any other in the United States.1By recent estimates, LA’s population of people experiencing homelessness has surpassed New York City’s to become the largest in the nation—and it is still growing, with about one in 150...
While slightly over 10% of the US population lives in California, over 25% of the nation’s homeless reside in the Golden State, and nowhere is that statistic more visible than in the City of Los Angeles (Howle, 2018). Quantitative data from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAH...
"We want to be there for them," said Dr. Coley King, the clinic's director of homeless health care. There are more than 45,000 people experiencing homelessness in the city of Los Angeles, according to the city's Homeless Services Authority. King says many of them suffer fro...
A homeless woman sets up a barricade in front of her tent near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles on June 20, 2017. Advocates say "single women," a term referring to women on their own, often separated from spouses or children, make up the fastest growing group in the homeless population...
FOX 11’s new documentary, Lost Angeles: City of Homeless, takes a close look at the out-of-control homeless issue in Southern California. IN-DEPTH LOOK AT UNDERSTANDING LA’s HOMELESSYouTube Tips ⓘ Homelessness in Los Angeles in January 2020, estimated at 41,290 people in the City of...
Los Angeles County has developed this data-driven, multi-layered Geographic Information System (GIS) planning tool to help guide City and County policymakers’ efforts, both at the County and city level, to respond urgently and effectively to homelessness and inform the public and community stakehol...
These encampment communities emerged in a critical moment when Los Angeles became the homeless capital of the nation while the demographics of the homeless became predominantly Black. The article shows the emergence of encampment communities as both a result of rising homelessness and as a necessity...
The homeless population was once largely confined to downtown LA’s notorious Skid Row, but encampments have spread widely, including within sight of City Hall and the Hall of Administration, where the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors meets. ...
LOS ANGELES VIEW FROM HERE-(1) We could wave a gigantic magic wand and poof make all the homeless disappear. Who has the magic wand? Anyone? Speak up!Who has the magic wand? (2) We could tear down more Rent Controlled apartments (RSO) to construct more Mixed-Us...