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Jun 9
Judge Signals Approval of City's Settlement of LA Homelessness Lawsuit
LOS ANGELES -- A federal judge today tentatively signed off on Los Angeles' proposed settlement with the L.A. Alliance for Human Rights in which the city will spend up to $3 billion over the next five years to develop as many as 16,000 beds or housing units for non-mentally ill members of the homeless population.
U.S. District Judge David Carter said ...
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May 24
News report showing L.A. homeless services workers throwing out boxes of food draws official’s ire
A day after a news report captured Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority workers throwing away food meant for unhoused people, L.A. City Atty. Mike Feuer sent a letter to the agency demanding answers.
The report, aired by KCBS-TV Channel 2 on Monday, showed LAHSA workers throwing cases of food into a dumpster. The news station said it had followed homeless services ...
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May 19
100 homeless L.A. community college students to get shelter, food and Wi-Fi
The Los Angeles Community College District will fund a $1.5-million pilot program to provide housing for more than 100 students who are homeless or housing insecure.
As the pandemic continues to exacerbate students’ basic food and housing needs, many have prioritized jobs over education, prompting the Board of Trustees to vote last week to green light the yearlong housing program for ...
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May 16
‘We hurt those already hurting’: why Los Angeles is failing on homelessness
Last month, the top official charged with addressing homelessness in Los Angeles announced her surprise departure, offering a scathing message on her way out: the crisis is “a monster of our own making”, she wrote in her resignation letter. “Those in power who possess the ability to change the lives of more than 60,000 unhoused Angelenos must be willing to ...
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May 4
Many homeless people resist group shelters even as L.A. mayoral candidates push to build more
The Los Angeles mayoral primary has seen candidates throwing big numbers around concerning how much shelter they’d like to see built for homeless people.
Rick Caruso wants 30,000 new beds in his first year in office, Rep. Karen Bass says 15,000 new beds in hers and Councilman Joe Buscaino wants 9,000 new beds within 36 months, to name a few of ...
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May 4
L.A. County Board of Supervisors votes to create super agency on homelessness
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to create a new office or department that would coordinate the county’s response to the homelessness crisis in the region.
The new entity would have authority over various agencies — including the county’s departments of health services, social services and mental health — and would report directly to the Board of Supervisors.
In ...
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Apr 13
Formerly homeless people want a larger voice in decisions, more respect, report finds
They were all once homeless. Now they work within the system as advocates, case managers and advisors. And they say that their experience is too often taken for granted.
“People with lived experience are not recognized at the top, executive level,” one said. “We get brought in because people want to just hear our stories. But when it comes to implementation, decisions ...
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Apr 1
L.A. will shelter more homeless people to end major lawsuit. But how many?
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.
The proposed agreement between the L.A. Alliance for Human Rights and the ...
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Mar 14
HUD ANNOUNCES $2.6 BILLION IN AWARDS TO HELP PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS
HUD ANNOUNCES $2.6 BILLION IN AWARDS TO HELP PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESSThe awards include approximately 7,000 renewed and new grants that will promote a community-wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today announced over $2.6 billion in FY 2021 Continuum of Care (CoC) Competition Awards for roughly 7,000 local ...
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Mar 8
Editorial: The only way out of homelessness is permanent housing. That’s why we need the HHH program
As homelessness in Los Angeles has increased and become more visible, Proposition HHH, the $1.2-billion homeless housing bond program, has become a convenient scapegoat for the city’s inability to get unhoused people off the streets.
Proposition HHH was passed overwhelmingly by Los Angeles voters in November 2016 to help finance the construction or acquisition of 10,000 units of housing for the ...
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