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5 key moments leading up to LA homelessness leader’s resignation
How did L.A. County get to the stage that Va Lecia Adams Kellum, the top executive at homelessness agency LAHSA, is resigning ...
What’s Keeping Us From Fixing the Homelessness Crisis
As a society, we carry a real aversion to homelessness because it contradicts national values of upward mobility based on ...
CEO of embattled homeless authority LAHSA resigns days after LA County votes to create own agency
L.A. County supervisors voted on Tuesday, April 1 to create the county’s own agency for homeless housing and services, which ...
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Study finds LA would have more affordable housing if ‘mansion tax’ did not apply to new apartments
UCLA and Rand researchers say Measure ULA has decreased new apartment development, including some units that would have gone ...
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LA County supervisors vote to create new homelessness department, pull funding from LAHSA
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted ... to generate an expected $1 billion annually for efforts tackling the homelessness crisis across the city and county of LA.
Cities must be at the center of Los Angeles County’s new approach to homelessness
The county has taken the first major step. Now it must finish the job — with cities at its side, every step of the way.
L.A. County to pull funding from embattled homelessness agency
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has voted to pull funding from the regional agency tasked with combating the ...
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Riverside reaches major milestone in youth homeless crisis
Riverside officials announced a major milestone in their fight to end the homeless crisis, proclaiming that they have effectively reduced the number of unhoused youth to zero. The city undertook ...
Los Angeles Times6d
Los Angeles homeless chief to resign after the county guts her agency
Va Lecia Adams Kellum, the head of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority ... making real headway against our most intractable crisis,” Raman said in a statement. “I deeply hope that ...
Westside Current on MSN1d
At L.A.'s Homeless Housing Sites, 911 Calls Reflect a Crisis Within a Crisis
As state-funded homeless housing sites expand across Los Angeles, a review of 911 calls, internal records, and community accounts reveals rising violence, untreated mental health crises, and a system ...