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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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AOC vs. Eric Adams: New York Democrats split apart by reactions to subway death of Jordan Neely
1 year, 7 months ago

AOC vs. Eric Adams: New York Democrats split apart by reactions to subway death of Jordan Neely

Salon  

This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was among numerous progressives on Wednesday who expressed anger and disgust at the killing of Jordan Neely, an unhoused 30-year-old Black man who was choked to death by a fellow passenger on the New York City subway earlier this week. Adams' method of "getting people out of the streets …

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Facing an unhappy judge, L.A. leaders vow to rework settlement on homeless services
1 year, 11 months ago

Facing an unhappy judge, L.A. leaders vow to rework settlement on homeless services

LA Times  

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass appeared in Venice last week to discuss the city’s push to move residents of a massive homeless encampment into motels and other forms of shelter. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said Tuesday that city and county officials will spend the next three months reworking a legal settlement that spells out the types of services that …

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Why housing advocates oppose a new California law designed to help the homeless
2 years, 3 months ago

Why housing advocates oppose a new California law designed to help the homeless

Salon  

Tens of thousands of people lack access to housing in California. "This law violates a person's right to self-determination and violates people's right to choose how they want to and need to address their problems," Sam Tsemberis told Salon in an email. "Law enforcement and outreach workers would have a new tool to threaten unhoused people with referral to the …

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Column: Could extreme heat be just what California needs to finally solve homelessness?
2 years, 3 months ago

Column: Could extreme heat be just what California needs to finally solve homelessness?

LA Times  

Kim Burrell gives a bottle of water to Freddie Ramirez in Sacramento on Sept. 6. “These days are extreme examples of what is wrong and broken in the first place,” said Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, a longtime champion for a legal right to shelter and healthcare. “If extreme weather can help drive the change that is necessary, then let’s take …

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Op-Ed: ‘CARE Court’ is no solution for unhoused people in California
2 years, 6 months ago

Op-Ed: ‘CARE Court’ is no solution for unhoused people in California

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom, left, has spearheaded the CARE Court proposal that cleared the Senate Wednesday and has support from mayors including L.A.’s Eric Garcetti, right. If the judge finds that the petition adequately asserts that the person meets vaguely defined CARE Court criteria, then that person is forced into a convoluted process in which they must negotiate the terms of their …

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L.A.'s anti-camping law is a patchwork of compliance
2 years, 7 months ago

L.A.'s anti-camping law is a patchwork of compliance

LA Times  

The posted deadline for every tent and shanty to be gone arrived on a Monday. Yet by noon, life continued at its desultory pace as people began to stir in the dozen structures pressed against the guardrail over the 101 Freeway in downtown L.A. “Tomorrow,” said Harvey Hernandez, 58, a longtime denizen of downtown streets who displayed his awareness of …

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