Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Housing

The 5 Freeway through the city of Downey. Metro plans to expand the lanes on the left and take out many of the homes on the right. Photos by Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.

Metro Plans to Take Out 200+ Downey Homes to Widen 5 and 605 Freeways

By Joe Linton | Oct 2, 2020 | No Comments

Downey resident Alexandria Contreras says Metro's "I-605 Corridor Improvement Project" is "not an improvement, it's destruction, state sanctioned violence.... immoral and unjust."

Crystal on her bed at A Bridge Home Imperial - from Everyone In video

New Everyone In Video Shows Homelessness’ Disproportionate Harm To Black Angelenos

By Joe Linton | Aug 18, 2020 | No Comments

Everyone In tells stories of Black unhoused persons, and offers solutions, including funding from the November Reimagine L.A. ballot measure

Though the Liquor Bank will be demolished, Patrick Henry Johnson will repaint Elixir on the new structure. Rendering courtesy of the Design Review Board

Project Planned for Liquor Bank Site to Go Before Crenshaw Corridor Design Review Board Tonight

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jul 2, 2020 | No Comments

The Crenshaw Corridor Design Review Board is holding an online meeting to take a final look at the plans for the 64-unit project slated to go in at the site of the Liquor Bank, at Crenshaw and Stocker.

Meal delivery is one service of Project Roomkey. Photo: LAHSA

Thousands Housed in Project Roomkey in Los Angeles, but NIMBYism, Lack of Permanent Affordable Housing Blunt Progress

By Damien Newton | Jun 19, 2020 | No Comments

The Project Roomkey program temporarily houses unhoused individuals in hotel rooms during the COVID-19 crisis

Tormented by a Bandit, Unhoused Residents Just Want to Be Left in Peace

By Sahra Sulaiman | May 9, 2020 | No Comments

A few feet down from where the handwashing station lies on its side, El Abuelo Travieso – a name that translates to the Naughty Grandfather (though he told me with a giggle that it translates to Grandpa Tush) – is spraying his arms and hands down with a liquid from a disinfectant bottle. He had […]

Miguel R. has been homeless for just over three weeks in the University Park area. Sahra Sulaiman/StreetsblogLA

Evicted During COVID-19: “I Have Been Homeless for 20 Days…What’s Going to Happen to Me?”

By Sahra Sulaiman | Apr 25, 2020 | No Comments

A true eviction moratorium might have kept Miguel housed and stable; now he fears for his mental health and his ability to get back on his feet

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