I was once homeless and lived in a shelter. That experience gave me empathy for people on the street because I know how close I came to being one of them. But living in California has shown me that ...

L.A. County operates the largest county-run mental health department in the country with a budget of nearly $3 billion. Last ...

Every year, the Los Angeles Homelessness Services Authority (LAHSA) coordinates a volunteer-driven census of people living on ...

As California spends unprecedented billions of dollars to bring homeless people off the street, state lawmakers quietly approved new rules this summer requiring local governments to complete annual ...

A former LAPD officer who fatally shot an unarmed homeless man in Venice 10 years ago but was spared from prosecution at the ...

Clifford Proctor, a former LAPD officer who shot and killed a homeless man in Venice Beach in 2015, was arrested this week.