homelessness

County CEO Sachi A. Hamai presented the 2016-17 Recommended Budget to the Board of Supervisors on 4/12/16. This milestone kicks off a budget season that includes public hearings on May 11 and deliberations beginning June 27. The $28.5 billion budget…

The new MLK Recuperative Care Center is open for business in Willowbrook, providing homeless patients with a safe and healing buffer zone after they have been released.

Homelessness is a crisis in L.A. County, and helping homeless veterans is a top priority. Key players in the effort are landlords like Shirley Sessman, who is giving her tenants a new lease on life.

Segments include landlords extending a helping hand to homeless veterans; outreach on the new minimum wage; law enforcement and Metro honor the community; inmates restore bicycles for kids; and the “Help Wanted” sign is up for pollworkers for the Nov.…

Segments include lead tests for children in the Exide contamination zone; new approaches for first responders’ interaction with the homeless; public meetings on the future of L.A. County libraries; a library branch opens at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall; a mobile…

This Year in Review episode, focusing on L.A. County’s fight against homelessness, is part of a special three-episode retrospective of top stories of 2016. This is L.A. Now episode 333.

Crystal Beacham and her two sons are home for the holidays–thanks to the Los Angeles County Public Housing Program, which makes public housing apartments available to formerly homeless families.

Multifaceted C3 homeless outreach teams expand to Venice; clown therapy at LAC+USC Medical Center; snow days in County parks; New Year’s Eve in Grand Park.

They’re called C3 teams (for “city, county,community”) and they’re already having an impact on downtown L.A.’s Skid Row. Now these multifaceted street outreach teams are expanding westward, to Venice. Come along as they share medical care, resources, and hope with…