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Homelessness

(From contributor Carter Moon. Check out Carter’s Substack here!) Sidewalks are a highly contested space in Los Angeles. The entire time I’ve lived here, I’ve always been shocked by how

LA Councilmember Traci Park has introduced her twentieth motion targeting people who live in vehicles, this time ordering city departments to immediately implement AB 630, a controversial state law that

Mayor Karen Bass entered office promising to move fast and deliver housing in every part of Los Angeles. Two years later, her words and decisions tell a different story. She

Malibu has once again chosen enforcement over empathy. This week, the city declared a local emergency and granted itself new powers to remove and arrest unhoused residents from high fire

California lawmakers just made it easier for cities to seize and destroy the only homes that thousands of unhoused residents still have. AB 630, a bill by Assemblymember Cecilia González,

Los Angeles City Controller Kenneth Mejia has been thrust back into the center of the city’s homelessness debate, this time by order of a federal judge. In a move that

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