41.18 Amendment: A Wolf in Wolf’s Clothing Pete White, Executive Director, LA CAN The newly amended Section 41.18 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code reads like a combination of: 1) political pettiness; 2)…
RIDLEY: Believe it or NOT! An open letter to LA’s Black elected officials from LA CAN’s Minister of Culture I happened to be front row center the first time I heard Mark Ridley…
Punishing unhoused people will not solve homelessness Alan Sutton, LA CAN Amid a public outcry over their failure to alleviate the city’s housing crisis, Los Angeles’ elected leaders are doubling down on a…
Councilmembers Buscaino and Koretz are now pushing for the dissolution of city ties with LAHSA, claiming that LAHSA’s disorganization can be pointed to as a cause of the continued crisis of houselessness in Los Angeles.
Mired in a federal lawsuit highly critical of their botched response to homelessness, Los Angeles officials are getting pushback from critics, who claim the lawmakers’ offer of interim shelter beds and tiny homes…
June 1 2021 Living on the streets is a death sentence. So why isn’t the city housing women, who make up the fastest-growing population on Skid Row? Monique Noel, LA CAN Development and…
We, Women In Skid Row, represent a collective of community members, stakeholders and advocates for unhoused people of Skid Row, and we are extremely troubled by the consequences for our community should the Court’s injunction be implemented
A statement from the Downtown Women’s Action Coalition (DWAC) on Judge Carter’s injunction: Judge Carter, in his preliminary injunction (LA Alliance v City of Los Angeles), details a number of the harms and…
In an email dated Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 9:01 AM to Kirkpatrick Tyler, Director of Skid Row Strategy for Mayor Eric Garcetti, Monique Noel wrote: Dear Mr. Tyler, Thank you for connecting…
“Our system is just not fundamentally designed to address the crisis that we were in.” Speaking last week in Skid Row at a hearing on a lawsuit seeking relief for unhoused people in Los…
This morning, we have talked about, talked around, and represented the voice of Black women. Any conversation about Black women must be centered by the actual voice of Black women. Welcome to Skid…
February 1, 2021 Mayor Eric Garcetti: Our community has been abandoned and left to die. In the heart of Downtown LA, just blocks from your City Hall office and the forest of…