As students at Kelly Elementary School in Compton finish up their P.E. class, they race over to their new Skywell Water Dispenser to fill up with cold, clean water.
Sunday, May 1st from 11:00am – 4:00pm @ LA CAN – 838 E. 6th St. Los Angeles, CA The 2022 LA CAN Wellness Retreat for the women of Skid Row and beyond is…
Every fence erected around a park represents LA’s continued failure to house houseless people. Every fence illegally placed on a sidewalk illustrates the “dirty divide,” primed, seemingly sanctioned and assisted by the government.…
Check out our zine “Blueprint for Displacement: Breaking Down LAPD’s Echo Park Rehabilitation After Action Report” created in collaboration between Stop LAPD Spying, LACAN, and Street Watch LA. The zine centers on the…
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 23 — A judge’s decision that would have required Los Angeles to offer some form of shelter or housing to the entire homeless population of Skid Row by October was…
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…