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…
We, Women In Skid Row, represent a collective of community members, stakeholders and advocates for unhoused people of Skid Row, and we are extremely troubled by the consequences for our community should the Court’s injunction be implemented
A statement from the Downtown Women’s Action Coalition (DWAC) on Judge Carter’s injunction: Judge Carter, in his preliminary injunction (LA Alliance v City of Los Angeles), details a number of the harms and…
In an email dated Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 9:01 AM to Kirkpatrick Tyler, Director of Skid Row Strategy for Mayor Eric Garcetti, Monique Noel wrote: Dear Mr. Tyler, Thank you for connecting…
“Our system is just not fundamentally designed to address the crisis that we were in.” Speaking last week in Skid Row at a hearing on a lawsuit seeking relief for unhoused people in Los…
This morning, we have talked about, talked around, and represented the voice of Black women. Any conversation about Black women must be centered by the actual voice of Black women. Welcome to Skid…
February 1, 2021 Mayor Eric Garcetti: Our community has been abandoned and left to die. In the heart of Downtown LA, just blocks from your City Hall office and the forest of…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 16, 2019 CONTACTS: Pete White, Los Angeles Community Action Network, 213-434-1594 | petew@cangress.org Dan Stormer, Civil Rights Attorney & Board Member, National Lawyers Guild Los Angeles, 213-361-7751 | dstormer@hadsellstormer.com…
For Immediate Release: June 21, 2019 Press Contact: Pete White, petew@cangress.org, (213) 434-1594 What: Skid Row Town Hall w/ Peter Lynn, LAHSA CEO – 2019 Homeless Count Report-Out Where: Los Angeles Community Action…
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…
SB10 Co-Sponsors pull support from deceptive bail reform bill What: Group, Bill 10. Los Angeles: Local community organizations join former co-sponsors Essie Justice Silicon Valley DeBug and other community groups to urge state…
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…