To combat virus, L.A. will let homeless encampments stay up throughout the day
4 years, 9 months ago

To combat virus, L.A. will let homeless encampments stay up throughout the day

LA Times  

The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to temporarily stop enforcing a law requiring tents to come down during daytime hours, saying the change is needed to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus. Councilmen Mike Bonin, Marqueece Harris-Dawson and Gil Cedillo said the city must “urgently reevaluate” its policies for dealing with homeless encampments, given the virus threat. Council members also voted to instruct city agencies to begin providing hand-washing stations, portable toilets, dumpsters, vermin-proof trash cans and weekly shower service at “major” homeless encampments. “This is giving them a space to stay, rather than moving around in the community.” Tuesday’s action still preserves the city’s authority to require homeless residents to move their tents so that sanitation crews can clean sidewalks and remove hazardous materials, said Bonin spokesman David Graham-Caso. Public health officials have also advised that homeless residents who are living in tents should be allowed to “shelter in place” in the coming weeks, Marston said.

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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.” …

Long Beach begins citywide homeless sweeps. But where will the unhoused go?
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Long Beach begins citywide homeless sweeps. But where will the unhoused go?

LA Times  

Miguel Angel Gonzalez Martinez and his dog Lincoln move his belongings a block away from Gumbiner Park after it was recently cleared. “It’s just unfair.” A homeless man, center, confronts city workers, who are accompanied by police, as an encampment is cleared Aug. 19 at Gumbiner Park in Long Beach. Although the city planned to issue citations and possibly make …

As San Francisco cracks down on homeless encampments, a question rises: Where will people go?
5 months, 1 week 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 …

San Francisco police and street cleaners take aggressive approach to clearing homeless encampments
5 months, 1 week ago

San Francisco police and street cleaners take aggressive approach to clearing homeless encampments

Associated Press  

SAN FRANCISCO — Police in San Francisco will start clearing out homeless residents living in public areas under new policies announced Tuesday by the office of Mayor London Breed, who has pledged a more aggressive approach to tent encampments following a key U.S. Supreme Court decision. In a memo, Breed’s office said city workers will continue offering housing and services …

San Francisco police and street cleaners take aggressive approach to clearing homeless encampments
5 months, 1 week ago

San Francisco police and street cleaners take aggressive approach to clearing homeless encampments

The Independent  

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L.A. County supervisors reaffirm policy against jailing homeless people after anticamping high court ruling
5 months, 1 week 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. …

Newsom orders California agencies to clear homeless camps, but the impact remains a question
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Newsom orders California agencies to clear homeless camps, but the impact remains a question

LA Times  

Homeless people and their tents on 5th Street in Los Angeles’ Skid Row on June 28. Citing the U.S. Supreme Court’s June ruling that lessened restrictions on the enforcement of anti-camping laws, the order said there is “no longer any barrier to local governments utilizing the substantial resources provided by the State, in tandem with federal and local resources, to …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Many homeless in L.A. died from drugs in 2023, preliminary data show
9 months, 1 week ago

Many homeless in L.A. died from drugs in 2023, preliminary data show

LA Times  

Tents line the sidewalk at a homeless encampment in the Rampart Village neighborhood of Los Angeles in November 2021. Data released Thursday by City Controller Kenneth Mejia show at least 898 homeless people died last year on streets, in shelters, on freeways and elsewhere. Mejia’s report, which analyzed Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner preliminary data, did not break …

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 …

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

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

The Independent  

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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 …

L.A. City Council backs effort to regulate ‘vanlords’ who rent RVs to homeless people
1 year, 4 months ago

L.A. City Council backs effort to regulate ‘vanlords’ who rent RVs to homeless people

LA Times  

The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday backed an effort to regulate the leasing of RVs and crack down on so-called vanlords who rent them to homeless people. The ordinance would also add a requirement to city code that RV landlords comply with “relevant state and federal laws as it relates to the sale and lease of RVs.” State law …

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 …

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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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, …

San Diego considers banning homeless encampments
1 year, 6 months ago

San Diego considers banning homeless encampments

LA Times  

A row of tents on Sports Arena Boulevard in January 2022. Submitted by City Councilmember Stephen Whitburn, the proposed ordinance would prohibit people from camping on public property if shelter options are available, but it also would ban camping on certain property, such as public parks, even if no legal shelters are available. Concern that the ordinance could push homeless …

L.A. strongly approves of Mayor Bass but skeptical about fixing homelessness, poll shows
1 year, 9 months ago

L.A. strongly approves of Mayor Bass but skeptical about fixing homelessness, poll shows

LA Times  

On the eve of her 100th day in office, Mayor Karen Bass enjoys strong approval ratings among Angelenos — a reservoir of goodwill that will be crucial for the new mayor during uphill battles ahead. Half of Angelenos approve of the job Bass is doing so far, while just 14% say they disapprove, according to a Suffolk University/Los Angeles Times …

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 …

With deadline looming, L.A. City Council is set to vote on new tenant protections
1 year, 11 months ago

With deadline looming, L.A. City Council is set to vote on new tenant protections

LA Times  

With Los Angeles’ longstanding COVID-19 anti-eviction rules expiring in less than two weeks, the City Council is set to vote Friday on a proposal that would substantially expand permanent protections for tenants. The legislation package under consideration would establish a minimum threshold for eviction for tenants who fall behind on rent and require landlords to pay relocation fees in some …

Editorial: Mayor Bass is moving fast to house encampments. She’s going to need help — and hotel rooms
2 years ago

Editorial: Mayor Bass is moving fast to house encampments. She’s going to need help — and hotel rooms

LA Times  

On her first day in office, Dec. 12, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass declared a state of emergency on homelessness. The mayor’s office has asked City Council members and service providers to identify encampments where people had the most pressing needs in terms of mental health, substance use, physical ailments and other vulnerabilities. Selecting encampments where engagement is already going …

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 …

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 …

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. …

L.A. cracks down on homeless encampments near schools, over protesters’ jeers
2 years, 5 months ago

L.A. cracks down on homeless encampments near schools, over protesters’ jeers

LA Times  

Homeless advocates carry signs during a Los Angeles City Council meeting Tuesday. The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to prohibit homeless people from setting up tents within 500 feet of schools and day-care centers, during a raucous meeting where protesters shouted down council members and, at one point, brought the meeting to a halt. Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson, who represents …

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 …

L.A. will shelter more homeless people to end major lawsuit. But how many?
2 years, 9 months ago

L.A. will shelter more homeless people to end major lawsuit. But how many?

LA Times  

Los Angeles has agreed to build potentially thousands of new beds and housing units under the terms of a legal settlement announced Friday, apparently bringing to an end a key portion of a contentious, long-running federal lawsuit over homeless housing and enforcement on skid row and across the city. L.A. Alliance for Human Rights attorney Elizabeth Mitchell, left, and L.A. …

County commission backs creating a leadership post on homelessness
2 years, 9 months ago

County commission backs creating a leadership post on homelessness

LA Times  

An unhoused resident of Toriumi Plaza in Little Tokyo starts to pack up his belongs as the city of Los Angeles clears the homeless encampment March 17 in Los Angeles. A commission appointed by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to examine how to improve homeless services is proposing the creation of a new position to oversee all county …

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, …

Op-Ed: Listen to the neighbors of homeless encampments. We aren’t just grousing
2 years, 11 months ago

Op-Ed: Listen to the neighbors of homeless encampments. We aren’t just grousing

LA Times  

Tents and temporary structures along the Venice Beach boardwalk last May. After the pandemic hit and the city stopped enforcing anti-camping laws, Venice residents witnessed the rapid proliferation of over 200 tents on the Venice Beach boardwalk this past summer — along with the creation of a major open-air drug scene, along with a triple-digit increase in robberies and soaring …

Op-Ed: Volunteering with L.A.’s homeless can mean becoming a de facto caseworker
3 years ago

Op-Ed: Volunteering with L.A.’s homeless can mean becoming a de facto caseworker

LA Times  

I met J. in 2019, the first time I did homeless outreach. But J. is not capable of navigating the social service system on her own, and I have found myself, a private citizen without formal training or authority, acting as, effectively, an unpaid service provider. Statewide, things are equally bleak — at the current rate of construction it will …

L.A.’s mayoral candidates agree homeless encampments need to go. The question is how
3 years, 1 month ago

L.A.’s mayoral candidates agree homeless encampments need to go. The question is how

LA Times  

Facing an enormous public outcry to solve homelessness in Los Angeles, nearly all of the leading candidates for mayor in 2022 agree on at least one thing: The problem of thousands of people sleeping in tents and RVs across the city is a crisis deserving of a disaster-level response. They said the city also needs to continue building permanent housing …

L.A. voters back a right to shelter, but are wary of taxes to pay for it, new poll finds
3 years, 1 month ago

L.A. voters back a right to shelter, but are wary of taxes to pay for it, new poll finds

LA Times  

Los Angeles County voters broadly support a legal right to shelter for all but offer tepid backing for new taxes that might pay for it, a new poll finds. The new poll, conducted by the Los Angeles Business Council Institute in cooperation with The Times, found that a significant majority of voters, 58%, said they believed the region can solve …

Poll on homelessness: How it was done
3 years, 1 month ago

Poll on homelessness: How it was done

LA Times  

Two years ago, the Los Angeles Times worked with the Los Angeles Business Council Institute to conduct a groundbreaking poll about attitudes toward homelessness. The survey questioned 906 Los Angeles County voters from Oct. 27 to Nov. 3, by telephone and online. Countywide poll seeks Angelenos’ opinions on homelessness The Los Angeles Business Council Institute conducted a survey in cooperation …

L.A. just changed its entire approach to homelessness. Does it place politics above need?
3 years, 2 months ago

L.A. just changed its entire approach to homelessness. Does it place politics above need?

LA Times  

The city of Los Angeles has undertaken a major shift in its approach to homelessness, one that puts a priority on clearing unsightly street encampments even when insufficient permanent housing exists for the people being moved. This balance, he said, was made possible by the expansion of outreach and services for homeless people, and the development of new housing and …

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