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Homeless encampments were markedly reduced in Hollywood and Venice last year, but the number of people sleeping ‘rough’ without a tent, vehicle or makeshift shelter held steady, raising the likelihood that the gains will be harder to sustain in the future, a new Rand report concluded.
After hearing seven days of testimony, a federal judge is deliberating on a request from a group of business owners, property owners and residents to place the city of Los Angeles’ billion-dollar homelessness programs under a receivership.
A lawyer for a nonprofit group suing the city over homeless services said he had withdrawn subpoenas seeking the testimony of Bass and two City Council members.
The two former employees accused LAHSA Chief Executive Va Lecia Adams Kellum of retaliating against them. LAHSA officials ‘strenuously denied the allegations.’
President Trump’s executive order calling for thousands of homeless veterans to be housed in West Los Angeles promises the relief veterans have been seeking in federal court for more than a decade, but leaves many questions unanswered.
The California Legislature is considering a bill that would end a nearly decade-old law denying state funding to abstinence-based housing. The law was meant to eliminate housing barriers to drug and alcohol users but, critics say, created barriers to those seeking sobriety.
President Trump signed an executive order Friday directing the Department of Veterans Affairs to create a center for veterans in West L.A.
Cash assistance is a proven way to keep people from becoming homeless. The hard part is identifying those who need aid. A clinical trial is trying to find out.
Oversight panels for the Measure A half-cent homelessness sales tax have set specific targets to track progress on five goals for increasing housing production and reducing the number of people on the street.
New taxes will soon dwarf the billions spent on homelessness in last decade. Who’s watching over it?
As more than a billion dollars pours in annually from two new homelessness taxes, a raft of new oversight agencies has been set up to set goals and keep an eye on the money. For the public, it’s a lot to keep up with.
