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Metro Board Unanimously Approves Motion to Delay 605/5 Freeway Widening and Instead Study Alternatives
Metro's Board sends a strong rebuke to Metro's Highway Program
October 22, 2020
Kensington Campus Opens in Lancaster Providing Temporary Housing, Permanent Housing, and Jobs for Antelope Valley’s Homeless
"It was built to be as inviting as possible. We wanted to treat people like people." says Mayor Parris.
October 19, 2020
Metro Plans to Take Out 200+ Downey Homes to Widen 5 and 605 Freeways
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."
October 2, 2020
New Everyone In Video Shows Homelessness’ Disproportionate Harm To Black Angelenos
Everyone In tells stories of Black unhoused persons, and offers solutions, including funding from the November Reimagine L.A. ballot measure
August 18, 2020
Project Planned for Liquor Bank Site to Go Before Crenshaw Corridor Design Review Board Tonight
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.
July 2, 2020
Thousands Housed in Project Roomkey in Los Angeles, but NIMBYism, Lack of Permanent Affordable Housing Blunt Progress
The Project Roomkey program temporarily houses unhoused individuals in hotel rooms during the COVID-19 crisis
June 19, 2020
Tormented by a Bandit, Unhoused Residents Just Want to Be Left in Peace
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.
May 9, 2020
Evicted During COVID-19: “I Have Been Homeless for 20 Days…What’s Going to Happen to Me?”
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
April 25, 2020
Bridge Housing Project Opens at the Brentwood V.A. This Saturday
The 50-bed project is for veterans experiencing homelessness
April 2, 2020
As Council Heads to Chambers Today, a Plea that It Abandon the Do-No-Harm-to-Landlords Doctrine
While arguing to limit the grace period tenants would have to pay back any missed rent to six months during the marathon city council session last Tuesday, March 17, Second District councilmember Paul Krekorian beseeched his colleagues to consider the Hippocratic Oath - the pledge physicians make to do no harm - and not enact policies that could have far-reaching negative consequences... for landlords.
March 27, 2020
