homelessness

The Housing Innovation Challenge awards $4.5 million in total funding – at the $500,000 or $1 million level – to the following creative, scalable and low-cost housing solutions for those experiencing homelessness in LA County. The proposed solutions aim to…

Innovative designs in homeless housing unveiled; the public weighs in on reforming the Probation Department; new senior housing opens in Willowbrook; and after 40 years, the fountains of the Fort Moore Pioneer Memorial are turned on once again.

More than 800 stakeholders attended the Homeless Initiative’s third annual conference, a daylong summit highlighting issues including poverty and housing scarcity, rapid rehousing, prevention and diversion, and incarceration and homelessness.

The Homeless Initiative conference kicks off in downtown; meet one of the winners of the Housing Innovation Challenge; and Cupid aims his arrow at a very special Valentine’s Day soiree.

A new study by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority shows bias and discrimination across four key areas are contributing to a disproportionate number of black residents experiencing homelessness in LA County. The report offers 67 solutions to help get…

Homeless advocates and their supporters turned out for the one-year anniversary of the United Way’s ‘Everyone In’ campaign, a countywide initiative to bring forward solutions to combat homelessness by getting the public involved. More than 80,000 residents have signed up.

Experts from academia and government gathered at a forum sponsored by UCLA to discuss the causes of homelessness and regional solutions, noting the complexity of factors that will take all levels of government to resolve.

Mental illness shouldn’t mean a life sentence of incarceration and misery. Los Angeles County’s Office of Diversion and Re-entry has moved more than 1,700 people away from jail and into community-based settings where they can restore their health and lives.…