Column: Is L.A. actually solving homelessness? The answer will start with perception, not reality
1 year, 3 months ago

Column: Is L.A. actually solving homelessness? The answer will start with perception, not reality

LA Times  

Mayor Karen Bass, accompanied by HUD official Richard J. Monocchio, left, and City Councilmembers Nithya Raman, far left, Hugo Soto-Martinez and Bob Blumenfield, speak to reporters in Hollywood on Wednesday. “I do really worry that it’s become normalized in public discourse to speak about people experiencing homelessness as, like, a problem for those who are not homeless — as opposed to fundamentally a massive societal failure that’s left usually older, vulnerable people terrified and totally unprotected,” she told me. “I don’t mean big, systemic impatience, like ‘I wish we could end homelessness faster,’” she said. “It has to be OK to say, ‘Yeah, this sucks that I’m walking my kids to school and I’m walking over people in tents,’” Kushel told me. “We’ve got to somehow make people believe again that this is solvable,” Kushel told me, “and it is solvable.” Hope can be elusive.

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Editorial: To understand homelessness, listen to homeless people. Here's what I learned
1 day, 5 hours ago

Editorial: To understand homelessness, listen to homeless people. Here's what I learned

LA Times  

Miles Templeman, who was formerly unhoused, shows off his room key during a “Welcome Home” celebration in February 2024 at the Dalton apartment complex for people who transitioned from encampments to apartments while participating in L.A. County’s Pathway Home program. When I began covering homelessness for the editorial board of the Los Angeles Times, a service provider told me something …

Los Angeles moves to take control of homelessness agency, citing audits that found reckless spending
5 days, 7 hours ago

Los Angeles moves to take control of homelessness agency, citing audits that found reckless spending

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles officials moved Tuesday to take control of hundreds of millions of dollars in homelessness spending, citing two scathing audits that found the government agency currently responsible for that money has spent it recklessly and without transparency. An audit this month found poor record-keeping prevented the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, or LAHSA, from tracking spending …

Editorial: Prevention is key to solving L.A.'s homelessness crisis
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Editorial: Prevention is key to solving L.A.'s homelessness crisis

LA Times  

People wait in line outside a food bank at Unity Fellowship of Christ Church in 2022. If homelessness prevention “is the last thing that is funded and the first thing that is cut when budgets get tight, we are not investing in prevention the way that we have to if we are going to end homelessness in Los Angeles and …

Letters to the Editor: These problems will always prevent L.A. from solving homelessness
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: These problems will always prevent L.A. from solving homelessness

LA Times  

To the editor: Both the city and county of Los Angeles are considering breaking up the L.A. According to LAHSA, the number of people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles County declined by 0.27% in 2024 compared to 2023. Nationally, for every 100 people who exited homelessness in 2024, another 118 entered into homelessness, according to the federal government. So the …

Editorial: Think twice before breaking up the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Editorial: Think twice before breaking up the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority

LA Times  

Los Angeles City Council member Nithya Raman, left, now former City Council member Paul Krekorian and LAHSA Chief Executive Va Lecia Adams Kellum kick off the first night of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s 2024 homeless count in North Hollywood on Jan. 23. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority is the closest the city and county have had to …

US homelessness up 18% as affordable housing remains out of reach for many people
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3 months ago

US homelessness up 18% as affordable housing remains out of reach for many people

Associated Press  

The United States saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, a dramatic rise driven mostly by a lack of affordable housing as well as devastating natural disasters and a surge of migrants in several parts of the country, federal officials said Friday. “No American should face homelessness, and the Biden-Harris Administration is committed to ensuring every family has access …

Opinion: On homelessness, liberal California and the ultraconservative Supreme Court largely agree
4 months ago

Opinion: On homelessness, liberal California and the ultraconservative Supreme Court largely agree

LA Times  

What does a small, solidly Republican city in Oregon have in common with California’s largest liberal enclaves? California’s response to the ruling has become a vivid reminder of not just the intractability of the homelessness epidemic but also the tension between national liberal politics and local policy in Democratic-dominated states and cities. Roughly 84% of the state’s voters believe homelessness …

A radical reshaping of L.A. County’s homeless services system is proposed
4 months ago

A radical reshaping of L.A. County’s homeless services system is proposed

LA Times  

Los Angeles City Council President Paul Krekorian, from right, and L.A. County Supervisors Lindsey Horvath and Kathryn Barger join other volunteers to count the homeless in North Hollywood on Jan. 23. Responding to long-standing dissatisfaction over the effectiveness of homelessness programs, Supervisors Lindsey Horvath and Kathryn Barger are proposing a new county department that would take over hundreds of millions …

Nearly half of L.A.’s record homelessness budget went unspent, city controller finds
4 months, 1 week ago

Nearly half of L.A.’s record homelessness budget went unspent, city controller finds

LA Times  

Mayor Karen Bass, left, chats with Jawonna Smith before Smith was moved from a tent to a motel under the Inside Safe program. Nearly half of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ record $1.3-billion homelessness budget for fiscal 2023-24 went unspent, an analysis by the city controller found. According to Mejia, the city spent or encumbered only about 30% of its …

Trump takes a hard line on homelessness. Why L.A. Mayor Karen Bass hopes to find common ground
4 months, 1 week ago

Trump takes a hard line on homelessness. Why L.A. Mayor Karen Bass hopes to find common ground

LA Times  

President-elect Donald Trump has promised to arrest thousands of homeless people sleeping in American streets and move them to large tent cities on “inexpensive land,” one of several planks of his agenda that would upend a national strategy that focuses on finding people housing on a voluntary basis. But Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who is trying to combat one …

What should L.A. do about homelessness? Renters and homeowners answer differently, poll finds
5 months, 1 week ago

What should L.A. do about homelessness? Renters and homeowners answer differently, poll finds

LA Times  

Poll after poll shows that just about everyone in Los Angeles believes homelessness is one of the biggest problems facing the region. Renters in Los Angeles County were at least 14 percentage points more likely to support rent control, affordable housing construction and the use of housing vouchers in their own neighborhoods than homeowners, the survey found, while homeowners backed …

Los Angeles’ $22-billion homelessness problem gives leaders a choice: Double down or change strategies
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Los Angeles’ $22-billion homelessness problem gives leaders a choice: Double down or change strategies

LA Times  

City of Los Angeles officials are finally confronting a question that has seemed too big to answer: How much would it actually cost to get every person living on the street today indoors and make sure that no one languished there for years again? “In other ways, it doesn’t seem that eye-popping to me for the scale of the problem.” …

Bass vows not to bus homeless people out for 2028 Olympics. But what will L.A. do?
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Bass vows not to bus homeless people out for 2028 Olympics. But what will L.A. do?

LA Times  

In Paris, the French government packed homeless people and migrants onto buses and sent them out of the city as the Summer Olympics approached. Mayor Karen Bass’ Inside Safe initiative went to Hollywood Boulevard on Thursday, moving about three dozen people indoors. Mayor Karen Bass’ Inside Safe program senior director Annetta Wells, right, coordinates with the Los Angeles Sanitation Bureau …

As San Francisco cracks down on homeless encampments, a question rises: Where will people go?
7 months, 4 weeks ago

As San Francisco cracks down on homeless encampments, a question rises: Where will people go?

LA Times  

Outreach workers, backed by law enforcement officers, have fanned out across San Francisco in recent days in targeted efforts to dismantle some of the city’s most visible encampments. A week into what Mayor London Breed has called a “very aggressive” effort to clear homeless encampments across San Francisco, a key question looms: Where will the people living in those tents …

L.A. County supervisors reaffirm policy against jailing homeless people after anticamping high court ruling
8 months ago

L.A. County supervisors reaffirm policy against jailing homeless people after anticamping high court ruling

LA Times  

Tents along Grand Canal Street in Venice a block from where the Venice Dell Project is to be built as housing for homeless people on July 10. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted unanimously to support a motion affirming that its jails won’t be used to hold homeless people arrested in the enforcement of anticamping ordinances. …

Homeless encampment cleanups do little to change numbers of people on the street, study finds
8 months, 1 week ago

Homeless encampment cleanups do little to change numbers of people on the street, study finds

LA Times  

Inside Safe workers clean up a homeless camp at 86th Street and Broadway to get people out of the encampment and into hotel and motel rooms June 26, 2024, in Los Angeles. “They just tend to move them around and the numbers tend to return in our relatively small area to previous trends pretty quickly.” Dwight Thomas, 62, right, gathers …

Editorial: Cities in L.A. County shouldn’t race to criminalize homelessness after Grants Pass ruling
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Editorial: Cities in L.A. County shouldn’t race to criminalize homelessness after Grants Pass ruling

LA Times  

Homeless advocates take part in the “Housing Not Handcuffs” rally organized by the National Homelessness Law Center during oral arguments in Grants Pass vs. Johnson at the Supreme Court on April 22 in Washington. Within hours of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Grants Pass vs. Johnson last week allowing cities and counties to criminalize homelessness, Los Angeles City Councilmember Traci …

Will the Grants Pass ruling on homelessness spur smaller cities to shoo people into L.A.?
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Will the Grants Pass ruling on homelessness spur smaller cities to shoo people into L.A.?

LA Times  

When the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling on anti-camping laws last month, Pasadena Mayor Victor Gordo was one of the local political leaders who welcomed it. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the 8th Amendment’s cruel and unusual punishment clause prohibits criminal penalties for “sitting, sleeping, or lying outside on public property for homeless individuals who cannot obtain …

Number of homeless residents in Los Angeles County decreases in annual count
9 months ago

Number of homeless residents in Los Angeles County decreases in annual count

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The number of homeless residents …

Number of homeless residents in Los Angeles County decreases in annual count
9 months ago

Number of homeless residents in Los Angeles County decreases in annual count

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — The number of homeless residents counted in Los Angeles County has dipped slightly, decreasing by about 0.3% since last year as California continues to struggle with the long-running crisis of tens of thousands of people sleeping in cars and encampments. Results released Friday from a federally required tally conducted in January found 75,312 people were homeless on …

Editorial: Drop in L.A.’s homeless population shows efforts to house people are paying off
9 months ago

Editorial: Drop in L.A.’s homeless population shows efforts to house people are paying off

LA Times  

Wah Chen, 52, counts a homeless man sleeping next to his tent while participating in the second night of the 2024 Los Angeles County homeless count on Jan. 24. The results of the 2024 point-in-time homeless count released Friday show a 2.2% drop in the population of unhoused people living in the city of Los Angeles, from 46,260 in 2023 …

Homeless Initiative awarded $51.5 million to assist 105 Freeway and river encampments
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Homeless Initiative awarded $51.5 million to assist 105 Freeway and river encampments

LA Times  

Kim Barnett of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority takes food to a person living in a tent alongside the 105 Freeway in Downey in 2020. California has awarded Los Angeles County’s Homeless Initiative a $51.5-million grant aimed at helping homeless people along the 105 Freeway and nearby riverbeds access housing and services over the next three years. “This is …

Meet the homeless L.A. immigrants who built a DIY home in gentrifying Highland Park
11 months, 1 week ago

Meet the homeless L.A. immigrants who built a DIY home in gentrifying Highland Park

LA Times  

In a city of multimillion-dollar houses and celebrity estates, Cesar Augusto’s home stands apart. The rectangular shelter appears above the channel like a section of a wood-paneled suburban basement, and a sign hangs near the entrance: “Ponte trucha,” or “Stay sharp.” Augusto climbs a ladder up the steep wall of the channel to reach his makeshift shelter, another example of …

Editorial: L.A. officials lied to justify seizing homeless people’s belongings. That’s despicable
11 months, 1 week ago

Editorial: L.A. officials lied to justify seizing homeless people’s belongings. That’s despicable

LA Times  

Ry Thounry packs up her tent on the Main Street overpass above the 101 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles while sanitation crews move in to clean the homeless encampment. Plaintiff Pete Diocson, Jr., a homeless man in Harbor City, had his dog’s wire kennel seized and discarded because sanitation workers and Los Angeles Police Department officers told him it was …

Man builds entire home next to LA freeway
11 months, 1 week ago

Man builds entire home next to LA freeway

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The home is part of an unhoused community …

Mayor Karen Bass urges L.A.’s wealthy to fund homeless housing
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Mayor Karen Bass urges L.A.’s wealthy to fund homeless housing

LA Times  

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass delivers her second State of the City address at City Hall on Monday. “And now we must prevail on the humanity and generosity of the private sector.” The pitch comes as Bass is working to break a logjam that has limited the city’s ability to move homeless Angelenos out of interim housing, such as hotel and …

L.A.’s right-left divide on solving homelessness
11 months, 2 weeks ago

L.A.’s right-left divide on solving homelessness

LA Times  

With an estimated 75,000 people unhoused in Los Angeles County, there’s universal agreement among our readers that the situation in Southern California is unacceptable and deserves urgent action. Mary A. Fischer, Echo Park Many heartfelt attempts by many heartfelt politicians have failed residents, who continue to face tents and trash that block sidewalks, and who fear violence by people wandering …

How effective are California's homelessness programs? State hasn't been tracking
11 months, 3 weeks ago

How effective are California's homelessness programs? State hasn't been tracking

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy California spent $24 billion to …

Editorial: Here’s how Los Angeles can help prevent people from falling into homelessness
1 year, 1 month ago

Editorial: Here’s how Los Angeles can help prevent people from falling into homelessness

LA Times  

Laura Ayala, left, signs up in January for an information seminar on tenants rights with Bianca Lopez, an outreach worker for We Are Los Angeles, a project of the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles. There’s no question that Los Angeles needs more permanent housing for people who are already homeless. But without more homelessness prevention, waves of people will continue …

Photos: 2024 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count is underway
1 year, 2 months ago

Photos: 2024 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count is underway

LA Times  

The annual three-night Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count is underway with volunteers fanning out to tally the number of unsheltered individuals, tents, vehicles and makeshift shelters they see in their assigned census tract. The 2023 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count revealed a 9% year-over-year increase in homelessness in Los Angeles County and a 10% rise in Los Angeles. While participating …

Homelessness is down in South L.A. But nearly 13,000 remain unhoused
1 year, 2 months ago

Homelessness is down in South L.A. But nearly 13,000 remain unhoused

LA Times  

A string of tents and makeshift shelters sat for years west of the 110 Freeway, across the street from an elementary school in the Vermont Vista neighborhood. While homelessness increased in other parts of the city, South L.A. had 10% fewer unhoused people than the previous year, according to the annual point-in-time count conducted last January. Karen McGee, a homelessness …

One year on, has the mayor of LA finally put a dent in homelessness?
1 year, 3 months ago

One year on, has the mayor of LA finally put a dent in homelessness?

The Independent  

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Thirty years ago, Time magazine asked if L.A. was ‘going to hell.’ Are we there yet?
1 year, 3 months ago

Thirty years ago, Time magazine asked if L.A. was ‘going to hell.’ Are we there yet?

LA Times  

The freeways are clogged with cars. And the question it asks is even more ominous: “Is the City of Angels Going to Hell?” The accompanying story, titled “Unhealed Wounds,” is a portrait of a divided city in the wake of the 1992 riots sparked by the acquittal of the Los Angeles Police Department officers who had beaten Rodney King. Time …

Homeless numbers in Los Angeles could surge again, even as thousands move to temporary shelter
1 year, 3 months ago

Homeless numbers in Los Angeles could surge again, even as thousands move to temporary shelter

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — In the hours after being elected mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass made a promise that will be an inescapable metric of her time in office: “We are going to solve homelessness.” The Democratic member of Congress, who had been on then-candidate Joe Biden’s short list for vice president, envisioned streets clear of more than 40,000 homeless …

Why homelessness looks different in Washington, D.C., than L.A.
1 year, 3 months ago

Why homelessness looks different in Washington, D.C., than L.A.

LA Times  

Mayors Karen Bass of Los Angeles and Muriel Bowser of Washington, D.C. — Democrats leading two of the nation’s most prominent and progressive cities — epitomize the plight big-city mayors around the country face as they tackle a growing number of homeless encampments, and the complaints that come with them. Mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass, left, Kevin Murray, with …

The little-understood reason why clearing homeless encampments became harder in California than most other states
1 year, 3 months ago

The little-understood reason why clearing homeless encampments became harder in California than most other states

LA Times  

Blocks from the White House, McPherson Square is a quiet, grassy downtown park where Washingtonians lunch and pigeons perch atop a statue of a Civil War general killed fighting the Confederacy. The first 9th Circuit ruling came in 2006, when judges struck down a Los Angeles sidewalk ordinance and ruled that homeless persons could not be arrested solely because they …

Can homelessness in L.A. ever be ‘rare, brief and nonrecurring’?
1 year, 3 months ago

Can homelessness in L.A. ever be ‘rare, brief and nonrecurring’?

LA Times  

Elise Buik, president and CEO of the United Way of Greater Los Angeles, and Peter Laugharn, president and CEO of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, believe it’s possible to turn the homelessness crisis around. The featured speakers were Peter Laugharn, president and CEO of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, and Elise Buik, president and CEO of United Way of Greater …

Cities crack down on homeless encampments. Advocates say that’s not the answer
1 year, 4 months ago

Cities crack down on homeless encampments. Advocates say that’s not the answer

LA Times  

A woman gathers possessions to take before a homeless encampment was cleaned up this summer in San Francisco. State and local laws criminalizing homelessness are on the rise, said Scout Katovich, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, which has filed lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of sweeps and property seizures in a dozen cities, including Miami, Anchorage and …

Cities crack down on homeless encampments. Advocates say that’s not the answer
1 year, 4 months ago

Cities crack down on homeless encampments. Advocates say that’s not the answer

The Independent  

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Opinion: I run an L.A. homeless services organization. But I can’t afford to live in L.A. anymore
1 year, 4 months ago

Opinion: I run an L.A. homeless services organization. But I can’t afford to live in L.A. anymore

LA Times  

Efforts to house people, which include hundreds of millions of dollars spent on shelter, permanent housing and outreach, have failed to stem the growth of street encampments in Los Angeles. But this time, because of the double whammy of the housing affordability crisis in Los Angeles and the lack of housing security, my family isn’t looking for another place here …

Letters to the Editor: This housing project isn’t ‘down the street.’ It’s right next to single-family homes
1 year, 4 months ago

Letters to the Editor: This housing project isn’t ‘down the street.’ It’s right next to single-family homes

LA Times  

A proposed 33-bed interim homelessness shelter at the site of a city parking lot on Midvale Avenue in West L.A. has drawn backlash from housed residents nearby. To the editor: Your editorial on the local opposition to a temporary housing project for homeless people in a West L.A. residential neighborhood failed to include any objective data or arguments on why …

Editorial: Asking the Supreme Court to weigh in on homeless policy invites troubles for L.A. and other cities
1 year, 5 months ago

Editorial: Asking the Supreme Court to weigh in on homeless policy invites troubles for L.A. and other cities

LA Times  

Mayor Karen Bass, right, chats in February with Jawonna Smith, 33, who lived in a tent on a sidewalk behind the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures before she was moved to a motel under the “Inside Safe” program. Nor is whining to the Supreme Court that judges won’t let cities cite or arrest homeless people. Hydee Feldstein Soto — community …

West Virginia has the nation’s worst drug problem, but much less homelessness than L.A.
1 year, 5 months ago

West Virginia has the nation’s worst drug problem, but much less homelessness than L.A.

LA Times  

Signs advertising drug rehab or access to emergency overdose kits are easy to spot here. “People conflate these crises,” said Dr. Margot Kushel, a UC San Francisco professor who led the largest representative study of homeless people in three decades, released earlier this year. “A lot of people don’t understand that — but my substance use was kind of fleeting,” …

Los Angeles city and county to spend billions to help homeless people under lawsuit settlement
1 year, 6 months ago

Los Angeles city and county to spend billions to help homeless people under lawsuit settlement

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Los Angeles County and city …

L.A.’s mayor declared a homeless emergency. A new lawsuit says it should be repealed
1 year, 6 months ago

L.A.’s mayor declared a homeless emergency. A new lawsuit says it should be repealed

LA Times  

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass appears with Councilmember Traci Park in January at a community reception where attendees thanked them for their work on homelessness. A Westside-based nonprofit group filed a lawsuit Monday that seeks to strike down Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ declaration of a local emergency on homelessness and housing, calling it a “vast and illegal expansion of …

Is there a market solution to L.A. homeless housing?
1 year, 8 months ago

Is there a market solution to L.A. homeless housing?

LA Times  

Kelvin Calloway, second from left, at a permanent supportive housing complex under construction on the former parking lot of Bethel AME Church in Los Angeles. What Calloway had was $11.7 million in private sector capital that would allow Bethel AME Church to build 53 permanent housing units for homeless people on its property at 79th Street and Western Avenue. “It’s …

Editorial: L.A.’s homeless numbers are grim. We must keep building housing and expanding services
1 year, 8 months ago

Editorial: L.A.’s homeless numbers are grim. We must keep building housing and expanding services

LA Times  

An encampment in downtown Los Angeles along an offramp to the 110 Freeway in 2019. Especially alarming is the 18% jump from 2022 in the number of chronically homeless people in the county These are the most vulnerable individuals in the homeless population — the ones who have been unhoused for at least a year and struggle with a mental …

Faced with another bad homelessness count, L.A. reacts with frustration
1 year, 9 months ago

Faced with another bad homelessness count, L.A. reacts with frustration

LA Times  

L.A. leaders have thrown themselves into the fight against homelessness in recent years, spending an ever-growing amount of money on programs meant to pull the city’s neediest residents back from the brink. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, center, with City Council President Paul Krekorian, left, and actor Danny Trejo in North Hollywood during the homelessness count in January. Councilmember Nithya …

Number of homeless residents in Los Angeles County jumps by 9% in annual count
1 year, 9 months ago

Number of homeless residents in Los Angeles County jumps by 9% in annual count

Associated Press  

The number of homeless residents counted in Los Angeles County has spiked again, increasing by 9% since last year in the latest marker of how deep the crisis is of people sleeping in cars, encampments or shelters in California. Results released Thursday from a federally required tally conducted in January found 75,518 people were homeless on any given night across …

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