Housing & Homelessness

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LA providers say federal funding delays ‘wreaking havoc’ in homeless services system

HUD delays are expected to affect more than 50 local service providers, with the bulk of their renewal grants expiring in the next three months, according to LAHSA.

Will city of LA exit troubled homeless agency? Here’s where things stand

Bass and Raman both promise to fix LA's homelessness problem. How do their plans differ?

Two women, one with light-brown skin tone and one with brown skin tone, speak into microphones side by side on a panel, both mid-gesture.

$1 million in homeless funds for a nightclub? New LA fraud cases allege bribery and theft

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LA regional homeless authority bows out of federal roles — including annual homeless count

Outreach workers, seen from the back, are walking down a street. A man and a woman on the left are wearing tops with the words LAHSA on them; the man on the right is wearing a neon green jacket. All three are wearing blue masks

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California becomes first state to pass requirements for insurers to clean smoke damage after fires

Thousands of homes survived last year’s L.A. fires, but were covered in toxic residue. Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed laws setting new rules for smoke damage cleanup.

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Appeals court rejects VA’s effort to stop order for thousands of new homes on West LA campus

The 9th Circuit declined to take up the case, letting stand a lower court’s order for the government to build thousands of new homes on the VA campus in West L.A.
Bass to step down from LA's lead homeless agency commission. LAist found she was often absent

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass announced a planned exit a week after LAist reported she skipped a majority of meetings for the region’s lead homeless services agency.
LA Mayor Karen Bass 'not available' for Congressional hearing on homelessness funding fraud

A House of Representatives subcommittee sent a letter to Bass last week about its concerns with the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.
LA moved Raz Chowdhury off the streets of Koreatown and into a hotel room. A week later he was dead

Chowdhury was among 31 people moved into housing during an Inside Safe operation in June.
Hundreds were about to be kicked off housing vouchers. A last-minute fix gives them a path forward

An emergency housing program that helped around 500 chronically homeless people is ending. Long Beach says it has a plan to keep helping everyone involved.
He uncovered wasteful LA homelessness spending. So why was he removed as audit chair?

Asked why Justin Szlasa was removed from the post, the LAHSA Commission head says that it is her 'prerogative' to change committee assignments.
LA Mayor Karen Bass asked to testify to Congress for fraud hearing on federal homelessness dollars

The House of Representatives Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency is requesting Bass come to Capitol Hill in less than two weeks.
Researchers estimate close to 6,000 unsheltered people live within a mile of Olympic venues

Local officials say that unhoused people living inside security zones during the Olympics will probably have to move.
Long Beach is fencing off the tunnel under Ocean Boulevard to keep people from living there

The city had hoped to revive the historic Jergins Tunnel, but as plans stalled, it’s instead seen vandalism and at least four fires.
Women veterans say San Pedro housing complex resolved their homelessness, but caused new traumas

Current and former tenants allege the nonprofit landlord of Blue Butterfly Village has neglected the property and harassed residents who complain.

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First modular unit delivered for Altadena low-income rental complex

A lottery will be held in October to decide who the units will be offered to.

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