Judge issues order for Los Angeles to move homeless living near freeways, citing health concerns
4 years, 7 months ago

Judge issues order for Los Angeles to move homeless living near freeways, citing health concerns

LA Times  

A homeless encampment beneath the 405 Freeway on Venice Boulevard. Those who live in the camp call it “Westside skid row.” Thousands of homeless people living near freeways in Los Angeles County are in line to receive alternative shelter during the COVID-19 pandemic after a federal court judge ordered local authorities to find them housing. The preliminary injunction, issued Friday by U.S. District Judge David O. Carter, requires city, county and homelessness officials to provide space in shelters or alternative housing for the estimated 6,000 to 7,000 county residents living near freeway overpasses, underpasses and ramps. Homeless residents living near freeways are not only at risk of contracting COVID-19 and spreading the disease throughout the community, but also of being exposed to lead and other carcinogens as well as being hit by cars, Carter wrote in the ruling. The order would apply to an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 homeless residents living near freeways in the city of Los Angeles, with the remainder living near freeways in other L.A. County cities or unincorporated areas.

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Letters to the Editor: These problems will always prevent L.A. from solving homelessness
4 days, 17 hours 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 …

A radical reshaping of L.A. County’s homeless services system is proposed
1 month, 2 weeks 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 …

Los Angeles’ $22-billion homelessness problem gives leaders a choice: Double down or change strategies
2 months, 3 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.” …

The under-the-radar proposal to end homelessness in Los Angeles for $20 billion
3 months, 4 weeks ago

The under-the-radar proposal to end homelessness in Los Angeles for $20 billion

LA Times  

A homeless man waits for transportation to housing as Mayor Karen Bass’ Inside Safe program employees along with the Sanitation Bureau clean up homeless encampments along Hollywood Boulevard and Gower Street in Hollywood in August. It would cost $20.4 billion to end homelessness in Los Angeles in a decade, a price tag requiring local, state and federal governments to more …

Homeless encampment cleanups do little to change numbers of people on the street, study finds
5 months, 2 weeks 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 …

Will the Grants Pass ruling on homelessness spur smaller cities to shoo people into L.A.?
6 months 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
6 months, 1 week 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 …

For the first time since 2018, homeless count finds fewer people living on L.A. streets
6 months, 1 week ago

For the first time since 2018, homeless count finds fewer people living on L.A. streets

LA Times  

After climbing for the last five years, overall homelessness leveled off in Los Angeles this year, with fewer people living on the streets, according to the annual count released Friday. “These shifts in both the city and the county mean that this year, across our region, more people are experiencing homelessness inside, where they are safer, where they have food, …

Editorial: Drop in L.A.’s homeless population shows efforts to house people are paying off
6 months, 1 week 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 …

Editorial: L.A. officials lied to justify seizing homeless people’s belongings. That’s despicable
8 months, 2 weeks 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
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Man builds entire home next to LA freeway

The Independent  

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Mayor Karen Bass urges L.A.’s wealthy to fund homeless housing
8 months, 3 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 …

A year ago, L.A. County declared homelessness a state of emergency. Is it working?
10 months, 3 weeks ago

A year ago, L.A. County declared homelessness a state of emergency. Is it working?

LA Times  

A line of campers along Jefferson Boulevard in Marina del Rey in 2023. Los Angeles County’s Pathway Home program targets RV encampments, cleaning up the RVs and moving residents into interim or permanent housing. On Tuesday, the supervisors heard from Cheri Todoroff, executive director of the L.A. County Homeless Initiative, who said the emergency order declared in January 2023 “absolutely …

Editorial: Here’s how Los Angeles can help prevent people from falling into homelessness
10 months, 4 weeks 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
11 months, 2 weeks 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 …

Annual count of homeless residents begins in Los Angeles, where tens of thousands live on streets
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Annual count of homeless residents begins in Los Angeles, where tens of thousands live on streets

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County’s annual count of homeless residents began Tuesday night — a crucial part of the region’s efforts to confront the crisis of tens of thousands of people living on the streets. Up to 6,000 volunteers with the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority fanned out for the effort’s main component, the unsheltered street tally. AP AUDIO: …

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

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

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

Opinion: I run an L.A. homeless services organization. But I can’t afford to live in L.A. anymore
1 year, 2 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, 2 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: Homeless people need housing everywhere. Including down the street from your house
1 year, 2 months ago

Editorial: Homeless people need housing everywhere. Including down the street from your house

LA Times  

When Los Angeles City Councilmember Katy Yaroslavsky proposed building temporary housing for 33 homeless people on a city-owned parking lot at the end of a residential block in her Westside district, the neighborhood erupted in fury. No district has had more trouble finding temporary housing for homeless people than Yaroslavsky’s. When former Councilmember David Ryu proposed an emergency homeless shelter …

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass scores a U.S. policy shift to expedite homeless housing
1 year, 4 months ago

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass scores a U.S. policy shift to expedite homeless housing

LA Times  

Los Angeles officials are celebrating the demise of one of their biggest obstacles to getting homeless people into permanent housing: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development requirements that keep applicants waiting for months while their assigned apartments remain vacant. “This addresses major roadblocks to moving Angelenos from interim housing in motels to permanent housing, putting housing first and bureaucracy …

1 out of 6 people have left the housing provided by L.A. homeless program, agency says
1 year, 5 months ago

1 out of 6 people have left the housing provided by L.A. homeless program, agency says

LA Times  

Mayor Karen Bass visits a homeless encampment near LACMA whose residents became part of her Inside Safe initiative in February. About one out of every six homeless people who have taken part in Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ Inside Safe initiative have either left the program’s housing facilities or exited the program entirely, according to figures prepared by the regional …

Is there a market solution to L.A. homeless housing?
1 year, 5 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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 …

Number of homeless residents in Los Angeles County jumps by 9% in annual count
1 year, 6 months ago

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

The Independent  

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Homelessness continues to soar, jumping 9% in L.A. County, 10% in the city
1 year, 6 months ago

Homelessness continues to soar, jumping 9% in L.A. County, 10% in the city

LA Times  

Nathaniel Prenters, 44, gathers his belongings before an L.A. sanitation crew arrives at an encampment in the 200 block of South Venice Boulevard. Homelessness continues to rise dramatically, increasing by 9% in Los Angeles County and 10% in the city of Los Angeles last year, a stark illustration of the challenges faced by officials trying to reduce the number of …

Here’s what parts of L.A. County saw biggest rise in homelessness
1 year, 6 months ago

Here’s what parts of L.A. County saw biggest rise in homelessness

LA Times  

Residents of a homeless encampment outside their tents on Venice Boulevard in Los Angeles. The homeless count for Los Angeles County is in, and officials say the numbers are discouraging. The annual point-in-time count released Thursday by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority found a 9% increase in Los Angeles County and a 10% increase in the city of Los …

L.A. mayor reports that 14,000 homeless people have moved off the streets
1 year, 6 months ago

L.A. mayor reports that 14,000 homeless people have moved off the streets

LA Times  

Tierra Signer waits with her belongings, to get housing under Inside Safe program, along 400 S. San Vicente Boulevard. More than 14,000 people experiencing homelessness have been moved off the streets during the first six months of her administration, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass reported Tuesday. Bass said the housing placements resulted from executive directives she enacted upon entering office, …

L.A. County asks appeals court to dismiss long-running homelessness lawsuit
1 year, 7 months ago

L.A. County asks appeals court to dismiss long-running homelessness lawsuit

LA Times  

Los Angeles County has asked a federal appeals court to put an end to a years-long lawsuit over the government response to the homelessness crisis, arguing that the judge overseeing the case abused his power and overstepped his authority. California Judge rejects L.A. County’s revamped homeless settlement For a second time, a federal judge refuses to sign off on a …

Los Angeles County leaders announce revamped homeless settlement
1 year, 8 months ago

Los Angeles County leaders announce revamped homeless settlement

LA Times  

Dr. Shayan Rab, left, a street psychiatrist with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health who leads the Homeless Outreach and Mobile Engagement team, and Karla Bennett, mental health clinical supervisor with HOME, check in with client Juan Luna, who is homeless in downtown Los Angeles, in 2022. Months after a judge shot down their first attempt, Los Angeles …

LA mayor wants $1.3B for homeless crisis, hotels for housing
1 year, 8 months ago

LA mayor wants $1.3B for homeless crisis, hotels for housing

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — Democratic Mayor Karen Bass, who was elected in November after promising to take on the city’s out-of-control homeless crisis, announced Monday she would recommend spending what she called a record $1.3 billion next year to get unhoused people into shelter and treatment programs. Bass’ challenge is in plain sight in just about any neighborhood: homeless people living …

Column: It took public shaming, but victims of LAPD’s fireworks explosion won’t be evicted
1 year, 10 months ago

Column: It took public shaming, but victims of LAPD’s fireworks explosion won’t be evicted

LA Times  

Kenia Quintanilla keeps a watchful eye on her two-year-old daughter Mia Samano while she plays on the balcony of their room at the Level Hotel in downtown Los Angeles in June 2022. “They’ve had it good living in the hotel rent-free for several months,” Price told my Times colleague Brittny Mejia this week. “We remain committed to seeing this tragedy …

Editorial: Is L.A.’s anti-camping law getting homeless people off sidewalks and into housing? Let’s find out
1 year, 10 months ago

Editorial: Is L.A.’s anti-camping law getting homeless people off sidewalks and into housing? Let’s find out

LA Times  

Nearly two years ago, the Los Angeles City Council passed a controversial ordinance that banned camping by homeless people near schools, day-care centers and parks as well as any other locations that council members wanted to decree off-limits. In tandem with the anti-camping law, the City Council adopted a street engagement strategy whereby people would be told to leave an …

L.A. to keep downtown hotel open as homeless housing for another year
1 year, 11 months ago

L.A. to keep downtown hotel open as homeless housing for another year

LA Times  

Los Angeles City Councilmember Traci Park, left, and Mayor Karen Bass attend a reception Friday celebrating efforts to move dozens of homeless people in Venice into temporary housing. The L.A. Grand Hotel, which served as temporary housing for a portion of the city’s homeless population since the outbreak of COVID-19, will continue operating until at least Jan. 31, 2024, said …

Bass wants to bring homeless people indoors. Can she secure enough beds?
2 years ago

Bass wants to bring homeless people indoors. Can she secure enough beds?

LA Times  

Seated on the hard sidewalk along Cahuenga Boulevard, Rue Ryan arranged a batch of red roses she had plucked from the trash into a memorial for her “street mom,” Hyper, who died two years ago. That’s why people get stuck out here so long.” Ryan hoped to get a hotel room of her own as part of Los Angeles Mayor …

Amid end to COVID help, homelessness surging in many cities
2 years, 3 months ago

Amid end to COVID help, homelessness surging in many cities

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In California’s capital, massive tent encampments have risen along the American River and highway overpasses have become havens for homeless people, whose numbers have jumped a staggering nearly 70% over two years. Some communities where numbers are down, he said, “are really looking at housing people versus criminalizing people and putting them in encampments.” In Sacramento, where …

Homeless advocates urge L.A. leaders to buy downtown hotel and turn it into housing
2 years, 3 months ago

Homeless advocates urge L.A. leaders to buy downtown hotel and turn it into housing

LA Times  

Project Roomkey recipient Sonja Verdugo, a longtime resident at the L.A. Grand Hotel, speaks at a rally outside the hotel in downtown Los Angeles on Friday. Homeless advocates on Friday called on city leaders to purchase the L.A. Grand Hotel, which has served as emergency shelter during the COVID-19 pandemic, to convert into permanent housing. Project Roomkey recipient Susan Hartnett, …

Editorial: Want to fix homelessness in Los Angeles? The pandemic showed us how to do it
2 years, 3 months ago

Editorial: Want to fix homelessness in Los Angeles? The pandemic showed us how to do it

LA Times  

For two years, the county of Los Angeles postponed its annual count of the homeless population due to concerns about COVID. The count revealed that the population of people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles County increased just 4% since the 2020 tally, which is significantly smaller than the year-over-year increases in the 2019 and 2020 counts. The city numbers remained …

LA County homeless numbers up but many more went to shelters
2 years, 4 months ago

LA County homeless numbers up but many more went to shelters

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — The number of homeless residents counted in Los Angeles County increased again but at a much slower pace than in previous years, according to figures released Thursday that show that more people left the streets for shelters. By comparison, the county saw a 25.9% rise in the homeless population between 2018 and 2020, said Kristina Dixon, acting …

Growth in L.A. County homeless population slowed during pandemic, count finds
2 years, 4 months ago

Growth in L.A. County homeless population slowed during pandemic, count finds

LA Times  

The growth of the homeless population in Los Angeles County slowed over the last two years in part because of policies brought on by the pandemic, according to results of the newly released homeless count. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, which coordinates the annual count for most of the county, found that the region’s homeless population grew by 4.1% …

Should vacant hotels in Los Angeles house the homeless? Voters will decide.
2 years, 4 months ago

Should vacant hotels in Los Angeles house the homeless? Voters will decide.

CNN  

Los Angeles CNN — On an average night in Los Angeles County, more than 60,000 people are homeless. “You know, there’s a lot of people with untreated mental health and some people do some damage to these poor buildings.” According to a 2020 report from the homeless services agency, more than 14,000 unhoused people in the county have serious mental …

L.A. voters to decide whether hotels must rent vacant rooms to homeless people
2 years, 5 months ago

L.A. voters to decide whether hotels must rent vacant rooms to homeless people

LA Times  

The Los Angeles City Council on Friday voted 12 to 0 to send a measure that would require L.A. hotels to rent vacant rooms to homeless people to the ballot in 2024. A controversial measure that would require hotels in Los Angeles to rent vacant rooms to homeless people will go before voters in 2024, the City Council decided Friday. …

Many homeless people resist group shelters even as L.A. mayoral candidates push to build more
2 years, 8 months ago

Many homeless people resist group shelters even as L.A. mayoral candidates push to build more

LA Times  

Loryn Montag, a homeless engagement team member with the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, takes Michael Watson to a tiny-house village as a sanitation crew prepares to remove a homeless encampment from the sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles on April 5. The Los Angeles mayoral primary has seen candidates throwing big numbers around concerning how much shelter they’d …

LA spending up to $837,000 to house a single homeless person
2 years, 10 months ago

LA spending up to $837,000 to house a single homeless person

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 A $1.2 billion program intended …

L.A. paying up to $837,000 per unit for homeless housing. Audit raises red flags
2 years, 10 months ago

L.A. paying up to $837,000 per unit for homeless housing. Audit raises red flags

LA Times  

A homeless man is evicted from an encampment under the 405 Freeway in Inglewood. A $1.2-billion housing bond measure approved by voters six years ago is still falling far short of its promise to address L.A.’s homelessness crisis, according to a city audit released Wednesday. “Although Los Angeles has made some progress with Proposition HHH, it hasn’t been enough,” City …

Greater Los Angeles homeless count resumes after pandemic-related hiatus
2 years, 10 months ago

Greater Los Angeles homeless count resumes after pandemic-related hiatus

LA Times  

Volunteers look for homeless people while participating in the annual Greater Los Angeles homeless count at the North Hollywood Recreation Center on Jan. 21, 2020. After a yearlong hiatus during the pandemic, thousands of volunteers will fan out across Los Angeles County this week to conduct the annual count of the region’s homeless population. Known as the “point-in-time” homeless count, …

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