Seven strangers sat at a dinner table in downtown Los Angeles, ringed by reporters jotting down notes, and set out to talk about race. They included a Muslim physician originally from Pakistan; a…
The LAPD will be out in force on the streets of Skid Row on Saturday, April 21. No, not that LAPD, the “other” one, as they prefer to be called. The Los Angeles…
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti declared a “shelter crisis” today to provide emergency housing to some of the estimated 25,237 unsheltered homeless residents who call the city home. As part of the declaration,…
LOS ANGELES (KABC) — It was a contentious Los Angeles Police Commission meeting as protesters disrupted a number of speakers. The issue is a controversial data-driven program that tried to identify persons likely…
Fed up with the homeless situation in Los Angeles, Kaleb Havens lived chained to a fence on Skid Row between Ash Wednesday in February and Easter last Sunday — a total of 46…
The scope of the homelessness crisis in the Los Angeles area is staggering. The Office of the Mayor’s official website lists the city’s total at just over 34,000 homeless people, and LA County’s total tops…
Meet the man who is spending his Lent chained to a fence without food to highlight LA’s growing homeless crisis “Hey, Mr. Deacon!” called out Kaleb Havens. The Catholic Worker was sitting up…
NOlympics LA + LA CAN Team Up For Disasterpiece Theater: Homes Not Games, An Anti-Gentrification Bike Ride + Screening in Skid Row The Olympic opposition group and one of Skid Row’s most rigorous…
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office has declined to file charges against a former LAP officer who shot and killed an unarmed homeless man during a May 2015 altercation in Venice. The…
Decades ago in 1949 the U.S. federal government guaranteed a right to housing in the U.S. Housing Act that promises “a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family ….”…
Life is already tough for the men and women living on Skid Row, but now they have a new problem: gangs. Los Angeles police say gang members are now preying on people experiencing…
Los Angeles lawmakers tentatively backed a pair of proposed ordinances Tuesday that are meant to get homeless people into housing more quickly. A City Council committee decided to move forward with the two proposals,…