Members of the local Black Lives Matter organization today criticized Mayor Eric Garcetti’s selection of Los Angeles Police Department Assistant Chief Michel Moore as the department’s new chief, saying he is too closely…
Activists on Friday lashed out against a city proposal to develop skid row, saying L.A.’s “gentrification” plan threatens one of the last bastions of housing for the very poor and disregards the fate…
After months of bureaucratic red tape, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to approve the placement of portable toilets and handwashing stations in Venice Beach to primarily serve the area’s homeless…
Members of the local Black Lives Matter organization Tuesday criticized Mayor Eric Garcetti’s selection of Los Angeles Police Department Assistant Chief Michel Moore as the department’s new chief, saying he is too closely…
For Immediate Release: June 4, 2018 Contact: Pete White, petew@cangress.org, (213) 434-1594 Impact of Skid Row Visit Informs Scathing U.N. Report on Poverty in America A new United Nations report concludes policy makers…
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s unveiling of the first new public bathrooms on skid row in more than a decade was seen as a possible turning point for the homeless enclave, which remains…
Business and property owners have traditionally opposed calls to install more public toilets on Skid Row, says Greg Spiegel, former homelessness policy director for Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, and who is now…
WHAT: PRESS CONFERENCE WHERE: LA CAN, 838 E. 6TH STREET, LOS ANGELES, CA 90021 WHEN: MAY 10, 2018 at 12 P.M. Los Angeles, CA — Organizers, Academics and LA County Public Defender’s to…
LOS ANGELES (CN) — A coalition of privacy protection advocates on Tuesday demanded that two Los Angeles Police Department crime predicting programs be dismantled, claiming they disproportionately target those who are low-income or…
Seventy-five residents of public housing, Section 8 housing and manufactured homes repeatedly disrupted Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson at a speech in Las Vegas on Wednesday, asking, “where will we…
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…