Gale Holland
Gale Holland covers homelessness and poverty for the Los Angeles Times. Starting in 2005, she edited the cops and courts beat, wrote news columns and covered higher education. A series about college construction abuses that she wrote with Michael Finnegan won a 2012 investigative reporting award from the Nieman Foundation. A Los Angeles native, she has worked for USA Today, Copley News and L.A. Weekly and wants to understand the consequences of urban inequality.
Recent Articles
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Thanks to Good Samaritans, homeless vet was lost but not forgotten
He was sitting on the apartment steps in her placid West Los Angeles neighborhood, his cottony Santa Claus beard clotted and his clothing unwashed. He struggled for words, and couldn't explain why he was there or where he was going. Mehrnaz Davoudi had never volunteered to help homeless people,...
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Homeless shelter in Highland Park gets city funding to stay open during El Niño
The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday approved $20,000 to keep a Highland Park homeless shelter open during looming El Niño rains, as advocates called on the city to pledge $100 million a year to fund longer-term solutions. The city has been under fire for delaying action to safeguard the estimated...
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Protesters call on City Hall to help homeless prepare for El Niño
Los Angeles officials have failed to safeguard the city's growing homeless population as torrential storms approach, and instead are permitting rampant development that is driving more people into the streets, advocates said Friday. Former Mayor Richard Riordan has ordered 1,000 tarps and 900 rain...
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Highland Park nonprofit takes the homelessness problem into its own hands
They began trickling into All Saints' Episcopal Church in Highland Park in the early evening, unfurling sleeping bags along the pews, beneath an abstract crucifix wrought from twisted metal. Elected leaders had been talking for months about the urgency to expand shelters before a much-anticipated...
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L.A. allocates $12.4 million to aid homeless people ahead of El Niño storms
Los Angeles leaders on Wednesday allocated $12.4 million for emergency relief to get homeless people off the streets before the anticipated El Niño winter storms bear down on the city. The vote to commit the funds, which include $10 million in short-term rent subsidies for veterans and other homeless...
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Venice activists sue city of Los Angeles over beach curfew
Citing the right to public commons stretching back to the Roman Empire, Venice activists filed a suit Wednesday to strike down the city of Los Angeles' 27-year-old overnight beach curfew.The lawsuit contends that the midnight-to-5-a.m. ban on sleeping, strolling, surfing or fishing on the sands...
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Skid row tenants accuse landlord of trying to drive them out of building
Tenants at a five-story residential hotel on skid row filed suit Monday accusing landlords of launching a campaign of harassment and intimidation to drive them out of the building. The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, accuses owner Kameron Segal and his management company, William...
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Irvine boy, 9, is struck and killed while riding his bicycle
A 9-year-old boy was struck and killed by a van while he was riding his bicycle Friday afternoon, Irvine police said. The driver, a 57-year-old man, remained at the scene, police said. The boy was hit in the intersection of Roosevelt and Bay Tree about 3:05 p.m. and died at an area hospital about...