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Feb 13

L.A. lawmakers tentatively back proposals to ease the way for housing homeless people

Los Angeles lawmakers tentatively backed a pair of proposed ordinances Tuesday that are meant to get homeless people into housing more quickly. A City Council committee decided to move forward with the two proposals, which would make it easier to build permanent supportive housing and to temporarily turn motels into housing for homeless people. City lawyers will now vet both proposals and bring ...
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Jan 21

South L.A. center provides one-stop assistance for people facing homelessness

 Lashea Singleton and her 14-year-old daughter, Monica, suddenly found themselves homeless in August. Singleton, 37, had been living at her sister's apartment but said she moved out after they had an argument. Through word of mouth, she found herself at a facility in South Los Angeles that provides services to homeless families or those on the verge of homelessness. The center, which opened ...
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Jan 16

LA Awarded More Than $109 Million For HUD Continuum Of Care Programs

Los Angeles, CA (January 12, 2018) – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has allocated $109,398,295 to the Los Angeles Continuum of Care (LA CoC) for 2017 - an increase of nearly $5 million from last year. The HUD Homeless Assistance Grant Awards include $13.5 million for 11 new permanent supportive housing projects (PSH) providing 828 new permanent ...
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Jan 16

Temporary trailers for homeless people planned on downtown city lot

Los Angeles city leaders are planning to house dozens of homeless people in trailers on a city-owned downtown lot as a possible model for citywide temporary shelters. A proposal that will be submitted to the City Council on Tuesday calls for installing five trailers on a parking lot at Arcadia and Alameda streets by the beginning of summer. The trailers would house ...
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Dec 25

The cowardly way L.A. perceives its homeless only makes it harder to get them help

A message posted recently to my neighborhood’s website caught my attention. It described a homeless woman passed out on the sidewalk in the middle of the day with an open liquor bottle, her shopping cart in the street. The writer called “non-emergency” services to report the situation because it felt “unsafe.” What was it about this pathetic scene that seemed “unsafe?” ...
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Dec 19

L.A.'s twin disasters — rising homelessness and spiraling rents — have the same DNA

Sofiya Turin, a teacher, lives in a bucolic part of the Hollywood flatlands, where nice apartments and small houses grace tree-shaded streets near a city park. But something is wrong with the picture.Poinsettia Park has ball fields and tennis courts, children’s play equipment and a gymnasium. And scores of homeless people. They live in tents, sleep on bleachers and grass, and mill ...
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Dec 11

Weingart Center plans first high-rise homeless housing for L.A.'s skid row

For decades, the Weingart Center has been a fixture on Los Angeles’ skid row, one among the many places of refuge where homeless men and women come for shelter, food and support. Now the social services agency is expanding its mission into permanent housing and plans to do it with a flourish by reshaping the skyline of L.A.’s most depressed neighborhood. Weingart ...
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Dec 4

Study finds L.A. County saves money by housing sick homeless people

Los Angeles County’s marquee program to provide housing for very sick homeless people saved taxpayers thousands of dollars by reducing hospitalizations and emergency room visits, a three-year Rand Corp. study released Monday found. Considered a national model, Housing for Health uses county and federal money to subsidize rents and intensive case management for acutely ill homeless people. Rand, a Santa-Monica-based research group, ...
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Nov 30

NIH and partners launch HIV vaccine efficacy study

The National Institutes of Health and partners have launched a large clinical trial to assess whether an experimental HIV vaccine regimen is safe and able to prevent HIV infection. The new Phase 2b proof-of-concept study, called Imbokodo, aims to enroll 2,600 HIV-negative women in sub-Saharan Africa. Of 1.8 million new HIV infections worldwide in 2016, 43 percent occurred in eastern ...
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Nov 28

About 15% of Americans with HIV don't know they're infected, CDC report says

Half of the Americans recently diagnosed with HIV had been living with the virus for at least three years without realizing it, missing out on opportunities for early treatment and in some cases spreading it to others, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. What’s more, of the 39,720 Americans newly diagnosed with HIV in ...
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