homelessness

Lack of housing is one of the defining issues of life in the Bay Area. It’s hard to imagine one person making a difference, but an Oakland man says he’s willing to give it a try. Garvin Thomas reports.

Getting COVID-19 vaccines into the arms of all Americans is hard enough. But vaccinating homeless communities poses additional challenges that are even trickier to overcome. They include getting homeless people to mass vaccination sites or bringing the vaccines to the streets, as well as overcoming their mistrust of health officials. Ben Oreskes, a reporter with the Los Angeles Times, joined...

Many businesses at Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade have shut down over the past year, and one business owner believes the city’s growing homeless problem is one big reason.

Homelessness is a crisis among young people in the LGBTQ community. The problem is even more pronounced among transgender people — about a third living in the U.S. become homeless at some point in their lives. Casa de Zulma is the first publicly-funded home for trans people trying to get out of homelessness. Yusuf Omar of Hashtag Our Stories...

A fed up federal judge in California said last week’s rainstorm created “extraordinarily harsh” conditions for homeless residents of Los Angeles. prompting him to order city officials to meet with him at a Skid Row shelter to discuss how to address the worsening crisis of people living on the streets.

With rain and cold temperatures forecast beginning Friday, Los Angeles County officials will open five winter shelters for those experiencing homelessness.

Scattered showers are possible. Belen De Leon has the forecast for Friday Jan.23, 2021.

The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority Wednesday announced the opening of the 20th “A Bridge Home” shelter and the first to open on Skid Row.

An L.A. program called Step Up on Second is driven by the philosophy that stable housing is the first step to changing the lives of people struggling with chronic homelessness and mental illness. The program, which was supported by Kobe Bryant before his death, operates a motel-turned-shelter that offers full studio apartments to the people it serves. Among those helped...

A California coalition is proposing legislation to boost taxes on wealthy multinational corporations to raise more than $2 billion a year to end homelessness.

Scott Sowle and Daniel Buenaventura may have little in common at first glance. Sowle is an advocate for people experiencing homelessness and Buenaventura is a college student studying nursing. But the two men are linked by a chance encounter and a common thread that runs through their lives. Both have turned their greatest grief and hardship into inspiration to spend...

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A former social worker for Catholic Charities of Los Angeles Inc. who helped the homeless is suing the organization, alleging officials there ignored her complaints about work conditions and that she temporarily lacked a roof over her head when she left her job in 2017.

An estimated 400 homeless people, including families, lined up Friday outside the Midnight Mission in downtown Los Angeles for a Christmas take-out lunch.

Homelessness is poised to surge in the coming weeks and months as Americans face continued economic turbulence and a pandemic-inspired eviction moratorium expires later this month. But vital housing assistance may not be fully available to families that don’t meet the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s definition of “homeless.”

LA City Council President, Nury Martinez and LA Family Housing are bringing the holidays home for the new residents of Parthenia Place in North Hills.

Parthenia Place in North Hills became the new location for 40 families who were homeless. John Cádiz Klemack reports for the NBC4 News on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020.

Taylor Swift, Cher, Billie Eilish, LL Cool J and Dolly Parton are adding their voices to Cyndi Lauper’s annual concert to combat youth homelessness, an issue its organizer says has only gotten worse during the pandemic

As the country heads into winter and it becomes more difficult for people experiencing homelessness to safely remain outdoors, shelters face a major challenge preparing for the increased demand the drop in temperatures will bring while observing restrictions to prevent coronavirus outbreaks, NBC News reports. Homeless shelters have had to adapt this year, with most reducing the number of people allowed...

Members of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation celebrated the Los Angeles City Council’s designation Friday of a hotel in Skid Row used to house homeless and extremely low-income people to the list of Historic-Cultural Monuments. The council voted unanimously Wednesday to add the 150-room King Edward Hotel, which was built in 1906 and purchased by the AHF in 2018.