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Judge says Louisiana State Police must follow city law to conduct homeless sweeps
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Judge says Louisiana State Police must follow city law to conduct homeless sweeps

Associated Press  

A New Orleans judge on Tuesday indefinitely prohibited the Louisiana State Police from conducting sweeps on homeless encampments in New Orleans without issuing adequate notice, as required by city law. In an emailed statement, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, whose office was defending the State Police, said she was “continuing to work with State Police and the Governor’s Office to …

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Homeless Camps Removed Ahead of Taylor Swift Concerts in New Orleans
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Homeless Camps Removed Ahead of Taylor Swift Concerts in New Orleans

CNN  

Homeless camps around New Orleans’ Superdome have been moved ahead of Taylor Swift concerts this weekend and the Super Bowl next year. The move was done to ensure the safety of everyone, including the unhoused community. The new location provides better access to services and a safer environment, but some individuals living in those communities say their personal items were …

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How billionaire investors are 'supercharging' the U.S. housing crisis
2 months ago

How billionaire investors are 'supercharging' the U.S. housing crisis

Raw Story  

A new report out Monday puts "into numbers the trend that ordinary Americans have known to be true for years," said economic justice advocates behind the analysis: "Their everyday struggles of affording a home are made worse by the sweeping influence that billionaires have over the market." Signifying the U.S. real estate market's "emerging status as global tax haven," the …

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Anaheim moves forward on toughening laws affecting homeless people
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Anaheim moves forward on toughening laws affecting homeless people

LA Times  

A homeless man sits on the sidewalk in Newport Beach in 2023. “We are creating ordinances to further enhance the toolbox for our law enforcement to better serve our city, but it really is also a comprehensive approach,” said Councilwoman Natalie Rubalcava. “These ordinances, although some people may feel that they are heavy-handed, they’re really necessary things for us to …

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Anaheim moves forward on toughening laws impacting homeless people
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Anaheim moves forward on toughening laws impacting homeless people

LA Times  

A homeless man sits on the sidewalk in Newport Beach. “We are creating ordinances to further enhance the toolbox for our law enforcement to better serve our city, but it really is also a comprehensive approach,” said Councilwoman Natalie Rubalcava. “These ordinances, although some people may feel that they are heavy-handed, they’re really necessary things for us to keep our …

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San Francisco warns RV occupants: Accept help or be towed
3 months ago

San Francisco warns RV occupants: Accept help or be towed

LA Times  

San Francisco Mayor London Breed said the city will make parking between midnight and 6 a.m. a towable offense for oversized vehicles whose occupants refuse offers of housing or other services. San Francisco plans to tow RVs and other oversized vehicles parked overnight on city streets if the people living inside them refuse offers of shelter, the city confirmed Friday. …

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Long Beach begins citywide homeless sweeps. But where will the unhoused go?
3 months, 4 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 …

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Human Rights Watch slams L.A. and state for criminalizing homelessness
4 months, 1 week ago

Human Rights Watch slams L.A. and state for criminalizing homelessness

LA Times  

Members of the Council District 11 Coalition for Human Rights and others protest in Venice in July. Gavin Newsom for criminalizing homelessness and failing to observe “an internationally protected human right” to “adequate housing.” The organization, which reports on human rights abuses in some of the most violent places on earth, said the U.S. as a whole, and particularly the …

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Opinion: The Olympics promise to be socially responsible. How’s that working out?
5 months ago

Opinion: The Olympics promise to be socially responsible. How’s that working out?

LA Times  

The 2024 Olympic Games open Friday in Paris. In Los Angeles, then-Mayor Eric Garcetti stated on late-night television, “I’m confident by the time the Olympics come, we can end homelessness on the streets of L.A.” How has it worked in Paris? Most of those banished from Paris won’t qualify for permanent housing in their new locations, and as for asylum …

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Three men in their 30s shot and killed near the 105 Freeway
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Three men in their 30s shot and killed near the 105 Freeway

LA Times  

Downey police responded to a call of shots fired on the west side of the Rio San Gabriel riverbed and the 105 Freeway on Saturday. Downey police are investigating a triple homicide of three apparently unhoused men who were shot near the Rio San Gabriel riverbed. On Saturday at 8:50 p.m., the Downey Police Department responded to a call of …

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Number of homeless residents in Los Angeles County decreases in annual count
5 months, 3 weeks 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 …

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Supreme Court criminalizes homelessness allowing laws that arrest people who sleep in public areas
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court criminalizes homelessness allowing laws that arrest people who sleep in public areas

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Supreme Court said laws that charge those who …

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'Sleep is a biological necessity': Sotomayor rips ruling to crack down on unhoused people
5 months, 3 weeks ago

'Sleep is a biological necessity': Sotomayor rips ruling to crack down on unhoused people

Raw Story  

The U.S. Supreme Court voted 6-3 to allow an Oregon city to target homeless people for sleeping on public property. Circuit Court of Appeals, with the court's conservatives finding that the measures enacted by Grants Pass city officials do not violate the Constitution's Eighth Amendment banning cruel and unusual punishment, reported NBC News. The ordinances prohibit sleeping or camping on …

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This charity in Colorado wants to get more public toilets for unhoused people
7 months ago

This charity in Colorado wants to get more public toilets for unhoused people

NPR  

This charity in Colorado wants to get more public toilets for unhoused people Many cities struggle with a lack of public toilets, making homelessness and sanitation more difficult. Colorado Public Radio's Stina Sieg reports on a nonprofit that is trying to fill the so-called toilet gap. SIEG: Padyk's nonprofit, Toilet Equity, has been building composting toilets since 2022 - small …

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From unhoused to high school grad: L.A. ceremony honors students who overcame the odds
7 months ago

From unhoused to high school grad: L.A. ceremony honors students who overcame the odds

LA Times  

Matthew Mosteller from Grant High School attended a graduate recognition ceremony at BMO Stadium, south of downtown, to celebrate students like him who had experienced homelessness but persevered to earn a diploma. These Los Angeles Unified high school students represent a complex mosaic of hardship, but also have overcome tremendous adversity — and were among 130 who were honored Monday …

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Deadly overdoses stopped surging among L.A. County homeless people. Narcan could be why
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Deadly overdoses stopped surging among L.A. County homeless people. Narcan could be why

LA Times  

Registered nurse Linda Leimer with the L.A. County Department of Health Services, left, hands Narcan nasal spray to a man in Van Nuys in 2022. Now a newly released report shows that the death rate from overdoses stopped rising among unhoused people in the county in 2022 — the year L.A. County was stepping up its efforts to save lives. …

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Justice Sotomayor: Should unhoused people 'kill themselves' instead of sleeping outside?
8 months ago

Justice Sotomayor: Should unhoused people 'kill themselves' instead of sleeping outside?

Raw Story  

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor suggested that an Oregon town wanted unhoused people to "kill themselves" after the municipality moved to punish people for sleeping outside. During oral arguments on Monday, Sotomayor told Theane Evangelis, a lawyer for Grants Pass, that the city's "intent is to remove every homeless person and give them no public space to sit down …

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Letters to the Editor: California doesn’t know if $20 billion spent on homelessness has worked. Who gets fired?
8 months, 1 week ago

Letters to the Editor: California doesn’t know if $20 billion spent on homelessness has worked. Who gets fired?

LA Times  

An encampment under the 101 Freeway in Hollywood is cleared on March 7. To the editor: As much an opponent of added bureaucracy as I am, it amazes me that California has not created a new agency whose sole job is to fight homelessness. But The Times reports that the council created to monitor the $20 billion the state has …

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L.A.’s right-left divide on solving homelessness
8 months, 1 week 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 …

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Letters to the Editor: The Broad doesn’t need another $100 million. Spend that money helping L.A.’s homeless population
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: The Broad doesn’t need another $100 million. Spend that money helping L.A.’s homeless population

LA Times  

To the editor: Downtown L.A. would be better revitalized by spending $100 million on low-income housing and mental health and drug treatment centers. It could be named after Eli and Edythe Broad in a giant artist-designed font. But I feel very sad and conflicted when I leave the fancy Broad and encounter a person experiencing mental illness who is so …

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Many homeless in L.A. died from drugs in 2023, preliminary data show
8 months, 3 weeks 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 …

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Feds won’t reimburse California $300 million for homeless housing amid COVID. Congress wants answers
9 months, 1 week ago

Feds won’t reimburse California $300 million for homeless housing amid COVID. Congress wants answers

LA Times  

Genia Hope moves into a hotel room being used for Project Roomkey in Whittier on July 7, 2020. “This October 2023 policy decision comes long after local governments across our state had already expended significant local resources under Project Roomkey with the full expectation for reimbursement,” the members of Congress wrote. “So it’s quite disturbing and quite frankly not acceptable …

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Unhoused man accused of trying to steal a Waymo self-driving car in downtown L.A.
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Unhoused man accused of trying to steal a Waymo self-driving car in downtown L.A.

LA Times  

Passengers ride in an electric Jaguar I-Pace outfitted with Waymo self-driving technology in Santa Monica last month. An unhoused man was taken into custody on suspicion of grand theft auto after police said he tried to steal a Waymo self-driving car in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday night. After the man, whom a Waymo spokesman described as an “unauthorized pedestrian,” …

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Nithya Raman, Kevin De León got more homeless people off the street. Will that sway voters?
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Nithya Raman, Kevin De León got more homeless people off the street. Will that sway voters?

LA Times  

Incumbent Los Angeles City Councilmembers Kevin de León and Nithya Raman have had success in getting homeless people off the street in their districts. Raman, who chairs the council’s homelessness committee, said the work by her team shows that the city “can actually address street homelessness, which is what most Angelenos are concerned about, far more effectively than we have …

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