The email goes out every weekday from the Mayor’s Unified Homeless Response Center to a long list of recipients in L.A.: Details of all planned cleanup operations. On any given day, plans can…
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…
In a bid to get homeless veterans off the streets, Los Angeles awarded more than $10 million to help transform an unfussy building in Westlake into supportive housing. Now critics are arguing that the money…
The Los Angeles City Council voted 10-2 Wednesday in favor of settling a pending federal lawsuit filed by Skid Row residents. That suit, which accuses the city of unconstitutionally seizing and destroying their…
Kevin Recinos works full-time helping the homeless in Los Angeles as a Life Skills Coordinator, but when his rent increased by $200 per month, he himself became homeless. Now, he’s one of the…
It’s a decades-old problem. But a new store—and an ongoing effort to change things in Los Angeles—paints the picture in a fresh light. Earlier this month, Danny Park reopened his parents’ Los Angeles…
Best known for his ability to transform his subjects using custom made garments and his relationship to re-imagining contemporary Moroccan culture, artist Hassan Hajjaj has been dubbed the ‘Andy Warhol of Marrakech.’ And for good…
The Los Angeles City Council on Friday ordered a handful of city agencies to draw up an assessment of fleas and vermin at City Hall, with at least one member linking the problem…
Evictions and displacement have affected Angelenos across the city, from South Central to neighborhoods just outside of downtown. Tenants from an apartment complex near the University of Southern California were displaced as their units were…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Human Rights Violations in Los Angeles For Immediate Release: December 11, 2018 Contact: Pete White, Los Angeles Community Action Network (213) 228-0024 | petew@cangress.org Human Rights in Los Angeles: Still…
Mayor Eric Garcetti was forced to halt a speech Monday at USC after demonstrators began shouting at him and criticizing his approach to the city’s homelessness crisis, the Los Angeles Police Department’s use…
When Silvia Hernandez first immigrated to California over two decades ago, she worked tirelessly to support her family. After holding jobs in sweatshops, factories, and housekeeping, she pursued a cosmetology license and began…