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Homelessness

When Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath abruptly canceled plans for a 49-bed interim housing project in Santa Monica earlier this month, the decision appeared to mark another victory for

When the City Council and Mayor voted last spring to renew Los Angeles’s contract with the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles for another five years, it should have been

(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

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