Emily Alpert Reyes

Staff Writer

Emily Alpert Reyes covers City Hall for the Los Angeles Times. She previously reported on the census and demographics, tracking how our lives are changing in Los Angeles, California and the country. Before joining The Times, she worked for the pioneering nonprofit news website voiceofsandiego.org, winning national awards for her reporting on education. She has also traveled to Bolivia as a fellow with the International Reporting Project and survived the University of Chicago.

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Hotly contested plan for homeless housing in Valley district moves forward

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Hotly contested plan for homeless housing in Valley district moves forward

The debate over whether to fund a 64-unit homeless housing complex in Chatsworth will now head to the Los Angeles City Council.
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A local group has long used an old firehouse. Now a clash with L.A. could push it out

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A local group has long used an old firehouse. Now a clash with L.A. could push it out

L.A. officials are revoking an agreement that has long allowed a local group to use an old firehouse on Crenshaw Boulevard, spurring an outpouring of protest from the group and its supporters.
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This Valley district got a rare pitch to build homeless housing. Can it survive opposition?

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This Valley district got a rare pitch to build homeless housing. Can it survive opposition?

L.A. City Councilman John Lee has come out against a rare proposal to build homeless housing in his San Fernando Valley district. The debate follows a closely watched campaign that revolved, in part, around warring views of the homeless crisis.

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Is Trump trying to make this historic building a homeless shelter?

‘Fed up’ with homeless camps, L.A. County joins case to restore its right to clear them
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Where could homeless people sleep under L.A. plan? Activists take to streets to check

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Where could homeless people sleep under L.A. plan? Activists take to streets to check

Groups walked the streets in an area of Echo Park to assess where homeless people could be barred from sleeping if the proposal passed.

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Maps: L.A. might ban homeless people from sleeping on many streets. What about your block?
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Homeless shelters in L.A. could be harder to block if Gov. Newsom signs this bill

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Homeless shelters in L.A. could be harder to block if Gov. Newsom signs this bill

A bill awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature could make it harder to fight the construction of new shelters and housing for homeless people in L.A.
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An Echo Park lot could become homeless housing after a bitter clash at City Hall

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An Echo Park lot could become homeless housing after a bitter clash at City Hall

Los Angeles is pressing forward with a bitterly contested plan to put homeless housing on an Echo Park lot, defying the objections of a local nonprofit.
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Many of L.A.’s sidewalks would be off-limits for homeless people to sleep if plan passes

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Many of L.A.’s sidewalks would be off-limits for homeless people to sleep if plan passes

A plan under consideration at L.A. City Hall would ban homeless people from sleeping on streets and sidewalks in at least 26% of L.A., The Times has found.

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Maps: L.A. might ban homeless people from sleeping on many streets. What about your block?
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An L.A. politician wants homeless housing on an Echo Park lot. His colleague calls it ‘Trumpian’

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An L.A. politician wants homeless housing on an Echo Park lot. His colleague calls it ‘Trumpian’

Should homeless housing be placed on a city-owned lot in Echo Park currently used for recreation, including basketball and handball courts? Two City Council members are in a rare public fight over it.
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Did this celebrity developer perform his community service? Neighbors aren’t so sure

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Did this celebrity developer perform his community service? Neighbors aren’t so sure

Mohamed Hadid agreed to do 200 hours of community service to end a criminal case over a Bel-Air building project. Neighbors doubt he followed through.
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L.A. is again considering limits on where homeless people can sleep — this time by schools and parks

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L.A. is again considering limits on where homeless people can sleep — this time by schools and parks

Los Angeles could bar people from sleeping on streets and sidewalks near schools, parks and day cares and in other prohibited areas under a newly proposed set of rules that has drawn fire from activists.