Streets Of Shame

Parents are concerned after a homeless man’s body was discovered on the street near where children were going to school. John Cádiz Klemack reports for the NBC4 News on Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021.

Riverside County supervisors Tuesday authorized $5.99 million to pay nearly two dozen hotels and motels countywide that participated in the Project Roomkey program initiated in 2020 to place transients facing COVID-19 exposure risks.

Los Angeles residents who dial 911 for nonviolent issues related to homelessness will have their calls diverted away from law enforcement to trained, unarmed professionals under a pilot program announced Tuesday.

Bas Timmer is the founder of the Sheltersuit foundation: creating waterproof beds and jackets that turn into sleeping bags – for a worldwide homeless population. He says he’s seen a lot, but nothing, he says, like the homelessness epidemic on the streets of LA.

The once iconic Chess Park on the Santa Monica Boardwalk may soon be shut down due to problems with homeless, drugs, and prostitution.

Councilman Kevin de Leon celebrated the opening of a Tiny Home Village in Highland Park today after sleeping overnight at the 224-bed interim shelter facility for people experiencing homelessness.

The Los Angeles City Council Tuesday took a first step toward expanding citywide the Skid Row Clean Team, which works to prevent trash and debris buildup in the area.

Six Los Angeles City Council members introduced a resolution Wednesday to enforce the city’s ordinance to restrict homeless encampments at four locations in and around the Civic Center. The resolution requests enforcement against sitting, lying, sleeping and storing personal property at several LA locations.

Kevin McBride was living in a motel-turned temporary housing for homeless people in the North Hills area of LA during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A housing project in Skid Row billed as the largest homeless housing development in Los Angeles history broke ground Tuesday.

Homeowners say they’re looking forward to fewer tents. John Cádiz Klemack reports for the NBC4 News on Friday, Sept. 24, 2021.

The view of Venice Beach from Ocean Front Walk is vastly different today than it was just a few weeks ago. Homeless encampments, tents, piles of personal property and garbage – gone. And those behind the program that made it happen say they promise to keep it that way.