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There are just 285 seasonal winter shelter beds in all of Los Angeles County this year. That number comes straight from the county’s winter shelter materials, which list only seven

This Wednesday on Skid Row, a woman known to her neighbors as Chef Bless stood in the middle of what used to be her outdoor kitchen. The spot where she

Venice residents witnessed an unsettling scene on the boardwalk this week when city crews removed and destroyed the belongings of longtime street musician Nathan Pino, known locally as the Venice

Los Angeles County is preparing to make sweeping cuts to homeless services next year, with budget documents showing reductions that would reshape nearly every part of the system that helps

A new report from LAist reveals serious questions about how LA and the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority have been reporting shelter capacity at a South LA safe sleep site,

Councilmember Traci Park’s claims about a massive surge in housing production in Council District 11 are not supported by the city’s own records. After Park told constituents that 65 projects

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