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April 2019

Editorial: Keep tenant protections front and center of California’s housing debate 840 473 admin

Editorial: Keep tenant protections front and center of California’s housing debate

It looks like 2019 could be the year California lawmakers finally pass sweeping changes designed to make it significantly easier to build much more badly needed housing. But if California officials are serious about easing the pain of the state’s…

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Editorial: L.A. renters deserve a ‘right to counsel’ for evictions 840 472 admin

Editorial: L.A. renters deserve a ‘right to counsel’ for evictions
Here’s one way to help ease Los Angeles’ homeless crisis: Give poor, vulnerable tenants lawyers to help them fight unjust evictions. Why? Because it’s often easier, cheaper and more humane to help people stay in their homes than it is to get them back on their feet after they have become homeless. read more
3rd Annual Homeless Initiative Conference February 2019 1024 512 admin

3rd Annual Homeless Initiative Conference February 2019
On February 7, 2019, the L.A. County Homeless Initiative convened its third annual conference, which brought together more than 800 stakeholders engaged in the watershed movement to combat and prevent homelessness. Themed Transformative Power of Community: Changing Lives read more
LA officials are housing more homeless people than ever before, but how? 1024 576 admin

LA officials are housing more homeless people than ever before, but how?
Relly Brown’s ground-floor apartment near MacArthur Park still resembles the hotel room it once was: four walls, no kitchen and a mattress that takes up half the floor. A shade is drawn over the only window, keeping it dim and reasonably cool on a warm spring afternoon. read more
Aiming to Help Homeless, UCLA Residents Practice ‘Street Psychiatry’ 1024 683 admin

Aiming to Help Homeless, UCLA Residents Practice ‘Street Psychiatry’
A growing number of psychiatry residents at UCLA are training to help thousands of people in Los Angeles who are homeless and suffer from mental illness. read more
County Approves Employment Innovations to Link Homeless Individuals to Jobs 740 400 admin

County Approves Employment Innovations to Link Homeless Individuals to Jobs
To help improve access to jobs and provide a way out of homelessness, the Board of Supervisors has unanimously approved a motion by Supervisors Kathryn Barger and Sheila Kuehl that directs the Chief Executive Office to work with the United Way of Greater Los Angeles to administer a Homeless Employment Innovation Fund. read more
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