Recent Streetsblog LA posts about homelessness

Bonin Takes the Lead on Protecting Low-Income and Unhoused Angelenos During Crisis

By Damien Newton | Mar 12, 2020 | No Comments

Councilmember Bonin is taking the lead using resources within his budgetary powers to provide washing stations for the unhoused throughout his district

LAPD Continues to Investigate Bombs Left at Future Bridge Housing Project in Venice

By Damien Newton | Jan 7, 2020 | No Comments

Update: The CD 11 Council Office wrote to correct the timing of the opening of the bridge housing project in Venice. The site will complete construction later this month and could be open as soon as February. Last Thursday evening, security for the bridge housing project under construction in Venice called the LAPD to investigate […]

Bonin/Huizar Look to Citywide Collaborative Housing Program to End Homelessness for Thousands of Angelenos

By Damien Newton | Dec 12, 2019 | No Comments

L.A. is looking to scale up the successful SHARE! housing model that places unhoused people in private homes - with supportive services, roommates, and other supportive connections

Seagulls circle overhead at 6th and San Pedro in the Skid Row neighborhood in 2012. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

Homelessness Coverage that Punches Down: Could We Just Not?

By Sahra Sulaiman | Nov 23, 2019 | No Comments

Three years ago, I got an email asking me to cover the extent to which a homeless person was infringing on the rights of bus riders by taking up residence at a bus shelter. The city had posted notice it was going to do a clean-up there, the sender said, but the deadline had passed […]

Lafayette Park Triangle bridge housing expected to open in early 2020 - image via L.A. City Council President Herb Wesson

Bridge Housing at Lafayette Park to Open Early 2020

By Joe Linton | Nov 14, 2019 | No Comments

L.A. Council District 10 will have two bridge housing projects open soon - 70 homes at Lafayette Park, and 15 single mother homes at 1819 S. Western

Rendering of planned Topanga Apartments in Chatsworth - via Affirmed Housing

City Council Unanimously Approves HHH Round Three Funding, Including Chatsworth Supportive Housing

By Joe Linton | Oct 15, 2019 | No Comments

Councilmember John Lee had pushed to postpone a Chatsworth housing project, but voted in favor today

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