Andrew Khouri covers homelessness for the Los Angeles Times. Before coming to The Times, he wrote about commercial real estate for the San Fernando Valley Business Journal. He holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and graduated from the University of San Diego with a degree in history.
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State and county officials on Friday broke ground on a new mental health care campus in Norwalk. The new facility will be located across six now-vacant buildings at the Metropolitan State Hospital.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday directed staff to formulate a plan to speed up delayed payments that LAHSA owes homeless service providers.
Homeboy Industries this week purchased the Monastery of the Angels in the Hollywood Hills and plans to turn the four-acre property into a mental health and substance abuse treatment center.
L.A. County Board of Supervisors’ move Tuesday to cut nearly $200 million in programs to help the homeless will hit outreach and navigation services hard.
Councilmember Nithya Raman backed a plan to ask voters to rewrite Measure ULA, saying it’s holding back housing production. The council asked for more review instead.
Alexander Soofer was charged with wire fraud. He’s accused of using money from a Hyde Park-based homelessness program to buy Hermes clothing, vacations and homes in Westwood and Greece.
Temperatures across Southern California have been elevated for more than a week, but cooler weather is expected to return this week as a low approaches the region.
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake shook Riverside County on Monday evening, according to the U.S.
Private investors purchased the shuttered St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles and are partnering with nonprofits and government to turn the campus into a one-stop shop for homeless people to seek help.
At a time when other homeless programs are being cut, the Los Angeles County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency on Wednesday approved nearly $11.5 million for financial assistance for at-risk tenants across the county.