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One Sherman Oaks business owner is calling on local lawmakers to do more when it comes to curbing crime and dealing with the homelessness crisis. She says it’s affecting many businesses, including her own. John Cadiz Klemack reports on the NBC4 News at 4pm on Tuesday, June 28, 2022.

Venice’s Centennial Park is undergoing repair after the city cleared the homeless encampment that lined the narrow park for months.

A homeless encampment that took over Centennial Park in Venice Beach has been cleared. Angie Crouch reports June 14, 2022.

Six USC students are helping the unhoused community in Los Angeles with a new product that helps keep medications secure.

USC’s Street Medicine program is creating insulated fanny packs for the unhoused. John Cádiz Klemack reports June 13, 2022.

LA City Council could add another change to its ban on homeless encampments, this time near Los Angeles city libraries. As seen on air on June 4, 2022.

Two days after the Los Angeles City Council took steps to ban homeless encampments within 500 feet of all schools and daycare facilities, Councilman Joe Buscaino introduced a motion Saturday to ban encampments near city libraries.

Riverside County’s homeless population increased 15% over the last two years, but efforts to move people off the streets are gaining ground, an official told the Board of Supervisors Tuesday.

Authorities are attempting the find the parents of a young boy found at a Los Angeles homeless encampment.

During the first 12 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, overall deaths of homeless people in Los Angeles County increased by 56% compared to the previous 12 months — a spike partially attributable to the virus, though drug overdoses continued to be the population’s top killer, according to a new report.

It’s being promoted as a different way of looking at the homeless crisis and finding solutions for it. John Cádiz Klemack reports for the NBC4 News on Thursday, April 21, 2022.

Volunteers were up early Sunday morning, preparing meals for families experiencing homelessness. Lauren Coronado reports for Today in LA on April 17, 2022.

It was inside this sewer system where a concerned security guard called police to say he spotted a woman with a very young child. John Cádiz Klemack reports for the NBC4 News on Wednesday, April 13, 2022.

The city says it’s a temporary measure to make sure everyone can use the sidewalk Angie Crouch reports April 12, 2022.

Homeless encampments are a growing problem all over Southern California, and while some communities are clearing away tent cities, Culver City is taking a different, controversial approach: the city plans to use money to temporarily widen a sidewalk to make room for an encampment.

Residents say it was a problem long before the pandemic: dangerous situations, like propane tanks, homeless tapping into electricity and the water supply. John Cadiz Klemack reports April 6, 2022.

Angel Hanz For The Homeless helps save abused, neglected and shelter animals by offering resources to unfortunate animal guardians. Life Connected: Angel Hanz for the Homeless

Los Angeles city officials and members of the LA Alliance for Human Rights are expected to announce the settlement Friday morning of a long-running lawsuit demanding that local government find shelter for the thousands of people camping on sidewalks and near freeways throughout the area.

A woman came home to her Santa Monica residence to find a homeless man in her living room holding a stick, police said Tuesday.

People who live near Ballona Creek in Culver City say they’re becoming increasingly concerned about fires at homeless encampments in the area.