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California Gov. Gavin Newsom offers to help negotiate Hollywood strike

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has offered to help negotiate an end to the strikes that have hobbled Hollywood

The Independent UK

How We Found What the City of L.A. Didn’t: Landlords Renting Low-Cost Housing to Tourists

Hotel ads, booking sites and guest reviews. Tourists staying in rooms meant for low-cost housing. Yet the city’s Housing Department has cited few landlords for violating the residential hotel law.

Capital & Main

Fifth bus of asylum seekers arrives in Los Angeles from Texas

Bus was carrying 44 people hailing from Colombia, China, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela, including 14 children

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Why can't we stop homelessness? 4 reasons why there's no end in sight

Many cities have devoted considerable focus and money to house people, only to see the number living outside continue to rise.

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Checked Out: How L.A. Failed to Stop Landlords From Turning Low-Cost Housing Into Tourist Hotels

Fifteen years ago, Los Angeles passed a law to preserve residential hotels as housing of last resort. Now, amid the homelessness crisis, some hotels may be violating that law by offering rooms to tourists.

Capital & Main

Editorial: LA’s homeless numbers are grim. We must keep building housing and expanding services

Once again, the news from the annual tally of the Los Angeles County homeless population is grim. Based on the three-night point-in-time count conducted in January, the number of homeless people in Los Angeles rose by 10% to 46,260 this year from 41,980 in 2022. The overall number in Los…

Los Angeles Times

LA County leaders vow to continue supporting migrant Angelenos based on State of Immigrants report

Focusing on ways to serve immigrants better and give them more of a voice on a host of economic and social issues, local legislators, academics and nonprofit leaders gathered last week at the fourth L.A. immigration summit.

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LA mayor ousts Native American DWP commissioner; Indigenous groups outraged

Cynthia Ruiz, the first Native American ever to serve on the Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners, got some bad news from City Hall recently.

Los Angeles Times

Another bus with dozens of migrants from Texas arrives in Los Angeles

Busload of 41 people, including 11 children who were with families, was welcomed by collective of faith and immigrants’ rights groups

The Guardian - US

2nd bus carrying asylum seekers from Texas arrives in Los Angeles

A bus carrying migrants from a Texas border city has arrived in downtown Los Angeles for the second time in less than three weeks

The Independent UK

Another bus carrying dozens of migrants from Texas arrived Saturday at LA

Another bus carrying dozens of migrants from Texas arrived at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday afternoon, courtesy of the governor and taxpayers of the Lone Star State.

Los Angeles Times

Number of homeless residents in Los Angeles County jumps by 9% in annual count

The number of homeless residents counted in Los Angeles County has spiked again, increasing by 9% since last year

The Independent UK

Los Angeles unhoused population reaches 75,000 amid humanitarian crisis

Annual government count shows 9% increase, sharper than last year’s 4%, in country’s most populous county

The Guardian - US

Homelessness continues to soar, jumping 9% in LA County, 10% in the city

Homelessness continued to rise dramatically, increasing by 9% in Los Angeles County and 10% in the city of Los Angeles last year, in a stark illustration of the challenges faced by officials trying to reduce the number of people living on the streets.

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$60 million state grant to aid LA County in expanding homeless services in Skid Row

A $60 million state grant recently awarded to L.A. County's Department of Health Services will jump-start a plan to provide interim housing and services for more than half of Skid Row's homeless population over the next three years.

Los Angeles Times

Anita Chabria: The truth about our homeless crisis: As Californians age, they are priced out

Public policy and common perception have long tied the road to homelessness with mental illness and drug addiction.

Los Angeles Times

More than 100 vacant, government-owned parcels in LA could be used for housing, study finds

LOS ANGELES — On Google Earth it looks like a stunning opportunity: six acres of vacant land surrounded by single-family homes in a West Valley neighborhood.

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Texas governor sends bus of migrants to Los Angeles

Move by Greg Abbott is latest by a rightwing governor to send people seeking help to a region run by Democrats. Plus: how Google made $10m from ads misdirecting users seeking abortion services

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The Independent UK

Migrants bussed from Texas to Los Angeles in move mayor calls 'despicable stunt'

A group of migrants who arrived by bus in downtown Los Angeles were sent from Texas

The Guardian - US

Texas governor Greg Abbott sends ‘1st bus’ of migrants to Los Angeles

The city found out about the bus before it arrived at Union Station, after which the migrants were directed to a nearby church

Los Angeles Times

LA mayor takes credit for moving 14,000 homeless people off the streets

LOS ANGELES -- More than 14,000 people experiencing homelessness have been moved off the streets during the first six months of her administration, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass reported Tuesday.

The Independent UK

Man repeatedly shocked with Taser by LAPD died from enlarged heart and cocaine use, coroner says

A Los Angeles County coroner's report says a teacher who was repeatedly shocked with a Taser by Los Angeles police died from an enlarged heart and cocaine use

The Independent UK

Teenager arrested for allegedly stabbing Los Angeles bus driver

The 61-year-old driver was stabbed multiple times at a bus stop in the suburb of Woodland Hills

The Independent UK

Manhunt underway for suspect who stabbed Los Angeles bus driver

‘For so many Angelenos, our transit operators are a part of their everyday lives,’ mayor says

Los Angeles Times

With forecasts for a sweltering summer, LA vows to improve response to extreme heat

LOS ANGELES -- With forecasts calling for warmer-than-average temperatures across California this summer, officials in Los Angeles are vowing to do more to protect residents from extreme heat, one of the deadliest consequences of human-caused climate change.

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