How the homeless live and what they keep
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Former staff writer Gale Holland covered addiction and homelessness for the Los Angeles Times. Starting in 2005, she edited the law enforcement and legal affairs beat, wrote news columns and covered higher education. A series about college construction abuses she wrote with Michael Finnegan won an investigative reporting award from the Nieman Foundation. A Los Angeles native, she has extensive experience covering courts for Copley News Service and USA Today, and she has worked as an editor and a writer for LA Weekly and the Daily Journal.
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