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After 13 years, a homeless Angeleno broke into her old, vacant home and wants to stay forever
6 months, 3 weeks ago

After 13 years, a homeless Angeleno broke into her old, vacant home and wants to stay forever

LA Times  

Every few months after she left the narrow white cottage on Poplar Boulevard, Maria Merritt would slink back to the tree-lined street in El Sereno, find a secluded spot and stare at her old house. “I don’t know what it was,” she said, but “I knew that was going to be my house.” When Merritt learned that Caltrans owned the …

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

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Aspiring actor, homeless in L.A., was fatally shot by CHP officer on 105 Freeway
1 year, 1 month ago

Aspiring actor, homeless in L.A., was fatally shot by CHP officer on 105 Freeway

LA Times  

Jesse Dominguez, left, with his sister Michele in a family photo, was fatally shot by a California Highway Patrol officer on the 105 Freeway on Sunday. On Sunday afternoon, while in what his family said must have been a mental health episode or drug-fueled crisis, Dominguez was shot and killed by a California Highway Patrol officer following a struggle on …

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Los Angeles criticized for its handling of homelessness after 16 unhoused people escape freeway fire
1 year, 1 month ago

Los Angeles criticized for its handling of homelessness after 16 unhoused people escape freeway fire

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — The fire erupted after midnight under a Los Angeles freeway where 16 people were living, including a pregnant woman who was only weeks from giving birth. Three years ago, as part of a court order related to a yearslong lawsuit accusing the city and county of Los Angeles of not doing enough to address homelessness, a judge …

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Caltrans long aware of conditions under 10 Freeway that fueled fire
1 year, 1 month ago

Caltrans long aware of conditions under 10 Freeway that fueled fire

LA Times  

Aerial views of the 10 Freeway days after a large pallet fire burned below, shutting the highway down. The lawyer also disputed that the various small businesses renting from Apex were there illegally; Caltrans “was fully aware of the sublessees and their operations,” he said in a statement. “Even the State of California’s Fire Marshall inspected the premises,” D’Attaray said …

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A California program to lease land under freeways faces scrutiny after a major Los Angeles fire
1 year, 1 month ago

A California program to lease land under freeways faces scrutiny after a major Los Angeles fire

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — The area under an elevated Los Angeles freeway that burned last weekend, damaging a section of a key thoroughfare in the car-dependent city, was stacked with flammable materials on lots leased by the state through a little-known program that now is under scrutiny. Arson was the cause of a massive weekend fire that charred and indefinitely closed …

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Burned body found along 5 Freeway in Los Angeles
1 year, 2 months ago

Burned body found along 5 Freeway in Los Angeles

LA Times  

Los Angeles firefighters responding to a small blaze along the 5 Freeway in Lincoln Heights near the North Broadway exit found a body early Saturday. Los Angeles firefighters found the burned body of a man at a homeless encampment when they put out a fire along the 5 Freeway in Lincoln Heights early Saturday. Firefighters arrived to extinguish the small …

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Chaos and confusion as judge pushes plan to clear homeless camps from near freeways
4 years, 2 months ago

Chaos and confusion as judge pushes plan to clear homeless camps from near freeways

LA Times  

The red Prius came to a stop under a freeway overpass in the San Fernando Valley. “Chaos is being created by multiple voices weighing in on the best strategy,” said Stephanie Klasky-Gamer, president and chief executive of LA Family Housing, a nonprofit that coordinates the homeless services in this part of the city and has taken on the responsibility of …

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