Each of the emergency homeless shelters being set up are slowly filling up, because some people who are living on the streets are being convinced that it’s safer to stay indoors. Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4 I-Team at 7 p.m. Friday, Mar. 27, 2020.

Activists who have long called for a ban on new county jail cells are set to rally downtown Tuesday in support of a proposed “care first, jails last” county plan to put fewer people behind bars and invest in more community-based treatment. Los Angeles County Supervisors Sheila Kuehl and Mark Ridley-Thomas met with reporters Monday to preview a motion to…

The mayors of California’s biggest cities had a “robust” discussion with Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday, highlighting their opposition to his plan on how to spend $750 million to combat the state’s homelessness crisis.

Some people who used to be homeless are putting on their running shoes for this weekend’s LA Marathon. John Cádiz Klemack reports for the NBC4 News on Friday, March 6, 2020.

They often don’t have places to wash their hands, struggle with health problems and crowd together in grimy camps. That’s what makes homeless people particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus. Almost 200,000 people live in those conditions in the United States, according to a White House report, with Washington state, California and Oregon among the states most affected by homelessness...

“We can’t watch you die.” Those were the last words Ben Shirley said his friends told him when they left him on the stairs outside the Midnight Mission in 2012. He stumbled through the door of the Los Angeles nonprofit just as one of the workers was finishing his shift. “For some reason, he saw this animal in front of…

Los Angeles City Councilman Mitch O’Farrell introduced a motion Friday to have 60 temporary shelter beds delivered to Echo Park Lake by early spring and to provide storage facilities and other assistance to the park’s homeless population. “This crisis is a call to action for all Angelenos,” O’Farrell said. “As we address this urgent priority to find safe, temporary...

The Los Angeles County Homeless Initiative conference encouraged leaders to let those who have escaped homelessness lead the conversation. John Cádiz Klemack reports for the NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on Thursday, March 5, 2020.

A 40-bed, pet-friendly homeless shelter with showers, laundry, health care specialists, casework services, community rooms and 24-hour security opened Monday in a formerly vacant building in San Pedro. The building is in the 100 block of West Eighth Street, near South Harbor Boulevard, and was formerly the Los Angeles County Public Health Clinic. It was turned into a homeless shelter…

The city of Lancaster is developing a 14-acre Kensington campus to fight against homelessness in Los Angeles. John Cadiz Klemack reports for the NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on Friday, Feb.28, 2020

The number of homeless women in downtown Los Angeles who reported being raped has risen in each of the last 3 years, and few of those cases have led to arrests, according to LAPD crime report data. Officers in the Central Area, which includes Skid Row, recorded rape cases that listed 59 women experiencing homelessness as victims in 2019. There…

The LAPD says that it has been doing a better job of collecting crime data from the homeless population who may be hesitant to report assaults. Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2020.

A transitional housing program for mothers experiencing homelessness has opened in San Francisco’s Bayview district, and its part of Mayor London Breed’s efforts to address homelessness. Jelani House, located in the Bayview, holds 17 private rooms, a living room, community spaces, kitchen, dining area, a deck and a backyard. “Jelani House is more than a facility and more than...

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The NBC4 I-Team investigated a public health threat that is rampant across Los Angeles. There are 36, 000 homeless people in LA, but most of them don’t have bathrooms or access to the most basic human needs. Joel Grover reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020.

California’s governor is expected to call for better mental health care to help the state’s huge homeless population when he addresses one of the state’s most pressing problems in his second State of the State speech.

At City College of San Francisco, a dozen or so students have formed a community, living off the grid in solar-powered camper vans at the edge of campus, building and maintaining their tiny homes together. Faced with some of the highest rent in the world, some say it’s a financial decision to emerge from school with a small savings, rather...

A sobering fact when it comes to making it in the Bay Area: People living in vehicles is a reality nearly 10,000 people wake up to each and every day, according to recent census data.

More than a year ago, the NBC4 I-Team exposed LA’s trash and rat problem and how it fueled an epidemic of the disease typhus. Our investigative reporter now finds that the problem is as bad as ever, making the City of Angels the City of Trash. Joel Grover reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020.