In a fresh bid to confront a problem that has confounded lawmakers for decades, Los Angeles city and county officials approved sweeping plans Tuesday aimed at getting thousands of homeless people off the…
This week, government workers flooded L.A.’s riverbeds, hoping to convince people like South L.A.’s Yvette Grant to get out of her tent and into a homeless shelter. It’s a tough sell: Grant’s saving…
Protesters shut down the southbound 405 Freeway early Wednesday afternoon, California Highway Patrol Officer Siara Lund told KPCC. It was reopened at 1:49 p.m. All lanes were blocked, Lund said. The protesters were…
Residents of the Madison, a single-room occupancy hotel on Los Angeles’ Skid Row, are suing their landlord for cutting off services and creating unsanitary living conditions. The suit filed in LA County Superior…
Tenants at a five-story residential hotel on skid row filed suit Monday accusing landlords of launching a campaign of harassment and intimidation to drive them out of the building. The lawsuit, filed in…
Long before Black Lives Matter made a mark in Los Angeles, there were the Rev. Cecil “Chip” Murray, Najee Ali, Earl Ofari Hutchinson. They and a handful of other black civil rights and…
Struggling to contain growing homelessness in Los Angeles, city and county officials on Tuesday asked for help from Secretary Julian Castro of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. In a public…
General Dogon’s practice of creating custom bikes as art pieces began with a shopping cart. It was sometime in the vicinity of 2012 and the activist artist, an organizer for the Los Angeles Community…
Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Bonin and others joined together on Tuesday to announce a $100 million proposal to combat homelessness. “We have really become, to our great shame, a city of tents…
Members of the Los Angeles City Council declared homelessness in the city an emergency Tuesday and said they would dedicate $100 million to fixing the crisis. “We wanted to send a message that…
It’s been a month since two ordinances went into effect that shorten the time homeless people have to clear out their belongings after being asked to move, but concern from some about how…
When controversial legislation cracking down on homeless encampments took effect last month, Los Angeles appeared to have settled on a strategy for dismantling unsightly tent cities that have formed in neighborhoods around the…