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In their own words: Unhoused people on Skid Row talk about current conditions
Photographer Carlin Stiehl visited the epicenter of California’s homeless problem, Skid Row, to hear what people actually ...
Los Angeles’s homeless “decline” report: A political scam
Los Angeles officials, with the enthusiastic backing of the media and the DSA, are using manipulated data, identity politics ...
The number of people living on the streets dropped nearly 10% countywide this year
The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority said its annual count showed total homelessness, including people in shelters, in ...
LA homelessness down, but count faces scrutiny
Los Angeles officials cite progress against homelessness, but some council members and providers warn of challenges ahead.
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LA Sees Consecutive Years of Homelessness Decline, but Crisis Remains
Los Angeles has seen a 17.5% reduction in street homelessness in the past year, with the city's Inside Safe initiative and ...
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Opinion: What Los Angeles Teaches Us about the Manufactured Crisis of Homelessness
Los Angeles' homelessness crisis was created by a century of political choices, including the criminalization of poverty, the ...
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Shut Down Open-Air Drug Markets
The Tenderloin in San Francisco, Skid Row in Los Angeles, and Kensington in Philadelphia have become magnets for crime and ...
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Behind the Applause Over the Homeless Count Numbers, Critics Question Costs and Progress
On July 14, in a makeshift press room at their 2-year-old, 24,000 square foot "Navigation Center", LAHSA's leadership ...
He used to be a street kid. Now he has an apartment with a harbour view
Kings Cross has changed dramatically since the heady days of the late 1960s. So too, one of its most colourful and long-time ...
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[Updated] LA County Homelessness Drops for Second Year
The latest results from the 2025 Annual Homeless Count reveal a second consecutive year of progress in the fight against ...
Opinion
Letters to the Editor: There is no solution to homelessness that doesn't involve denting property values
The gravest consequence of Proposition 13 has been to subsidize property owners, allowing them to so dearly cling to their holdings as to distort the market in their favor,' writes an L.A. Times ...