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5 key moments leading up to LA homelessness leader’s resignation
How did L.A. County get to the stage that Va Lecia Adams Kellum, the top executive at homelessness agency LAHSA, is resigning ...
What’s Keeping Us From Fixing the Homelessness Crisis
As a society, we carry a real aversion to homelessness because it contradicts national values of upward mobility based on ...
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At L.A.'s Homeless Housing Sites, 911 Calls Reflect a Crisis Within a Crisis
As state-funded homeless housing sites expand across Los Angeles, a review of 911 calls, internal records, and community accounts reveals rising violence, untreated mental health crises, and a system ...
CEO of embattled homeless authority LAHSA resigns days after LA County votes to create own agency
L.A. County supervisors voted on Tuesday, April 1 to create the county’s own agency for homeless housing and services, which ...
Riverside reaches major milestone in youth homeless crisis
Riverside County said they have helped homeless youth find housing and effectively reduced the number of kids on the street to zero.
DOJ investigating SoCal homeless spending for fraud, hints at arrests
California’s new U.S. attorney announced Tuesday he is investigating billions of dollars of homeless spending for fraud and ...
Cities must be at the center of Los Angeles County’s new approach to homelessness
The county has taken the first major step. Now it must finish the job — with cities at its side, every step of the way.
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Study finds LA would have more affordable housing if ‘mansion tax’ did not apply to new apartments
UCLA and Rand researchers say Measure ULA has decreased new apartment development, including some units that would have gone ...