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LAist on MSN1d
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 ...
CBS News8d
LA County supervisors vote to create new homelessness department, pull funding from LAHSA
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to create a new county department for regional homeless ...
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 ...
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.
Riverside reaches major milestone in youth homeless crisis
Riverside County said they have helped homeless youth find housing and effectively reduced the number of kids on the street to zero.
NBC Los Angeles on MSN3d
Fires tied to homelessness make up nearly one-third of LAFD responses
The LAFD says it should begin to get a share of the City's homeless relief money - since so many of its calls involve people ...