Homelessness
Empty Hollywood library will be converted to women’s shelter
The bridge housing site will have 30 beds.
County supervisors move ahead with plan to reuse County General Hospital as housing
The hospital could help fill the "tremendous need for homeless, low income, and high-need population residential options."
With 86 percent of homeless residents unsheltered, LA County declares crisis
The declaration will help the county get emergency homelessness funding from the state.
Women’s homeless shelter to open in 1920s Hollywood landmark
The Julia Morgan-designed Hollywood Studio Club is where stars got their start.
LA wants to encourage landlords to rent ADUs to the homeless
Could granny flats help solve LA’s homeless crisis?
After heated town hall, LA councilmember ‘still committed’ to Venice homeless shelter
The shelter could get a redesign but remains on track to open in 2019.
LA councilmember calls for ‘vehicle lodging passes’ for people sleeping in cars
The special permits could be used on specific non-residential streets.
Venice residents jeer as LA mayor lays out plan for 154-bed homeless shelter
"This is a decision about whether we keep people on the streets or take them off the streets," said Garcetti, struggling at times to be heard over the crowd.
LA has built 45 shelter beds for the homeless—its goal is 1,500
From Sherman Oaks to Wilmington, neighborhood opposition keeps mounting.
Here’s LA’s model for emergency homeless shelters
The mayor wants to roll these out across Los Angeles, where more than 30,000 residents lack a permanent address.
Councilmember’s field office will offer safe parking for homeless residents
West LA residents endorsed the pilot program, which will launch in a few weeks.
How serious is Mayor Eric Garcetti about reinforcing sleeping on sidewalks ban?
The old law targets homeless residents and homeless encampments—and it hasn’t been enforced since 2007.
It’s not just Koreatown—proposed shelter sites in San Pedro, Wilmington draw opposition from residents
Councilmember asks community members to "have an open heart."
How designers envision shelters for LA’s homeless residents
Local architects and real estate professionals want to reshape how emergency housing is designed.
‘The time is ripe to take action’: Old Children’s Museum pinpointed as possible emergency homeless shelter
It could house some of the approximately 2,000 people living on the streets and sidewalks of Skid Row.
LA officials ‘impressed’ by number of homeless residents using new public bathrooms
The six-month pilot could be extended for a full year.
Ballot measure to help homeless in LA may fall short of its goal
Money raised through the ballot measure could subsidize fewer than 6,000 units. Voters were promised 10,000.
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Activists pushing forward with plan to convert Parker Center into homeless housing
The city plans to begin demolishing the building later this year.
New sites proposed for embattled Koreatown homeless shelter
Sites have been proposed around Los Angeles, but none have proven as controversial as the Koreatown location.
Garcetti reportedly cozying up to idea of reenforcing ban on sleeping on the streets
He wants to clean up areas around shelters.
In LA, 5 percent of newly housed residents are already homeless again
"We know that the transition to housing takes time."
LA’s homeless population is finally falling
But 75 percent of homeless residents still don’t have shelter.
Coalition to Preserve LA launches ballot initiative to preserve, rename Parker Center
The group wants to refurbish the former LAPD headquarters as homeless housing.
Battle over Koreatown shelter wages on, with supporters stepping up
What happens with the Koreatown project could shape the implementation of the mayor’s emergency shelter plan.
Here’s where LA’s emergency homeless shelters could go
Officials are considering plenty of sites in the San Fernando Valley.
Koreatown homeless shelter inspires protest
This could be an early test for Mayor Eric Garcetti’s temporary housing plan.
‘Emergency’ homeless shelter to rise in heart of Koreatown
To bring people off streets and sidewalks, Mayor Eric Garcetti wants 14 more shelters in other parts of the city.
Garcetti declares ‘shelter crisis’ to address homelessness: ‘It’s the moral thing to do’
The action will make it easier to build new shelters in LA. But advocates question whether it will be enough.
When will LA’s big homelessness strategy start paying off?
"If we don’t get a hold of this soon, the same people who voted for all that money to go toward fixing homelessness are going to pass a new ballot measure that calls for the forcible removal of people off the streets."
Amid crisis, LA will speed up up delivery of homeless housing
New rules will also allow old motels to be converted to housing.
See the huge affordable housing towers planned for Skid Row
The ambitious project will include nearly 400 units of housing for homeless residents.
Metro’s homeless teams ‘surprised’ by level of need on Red Line
LA has a pilot program to help the homeless on public transit—but there’s so much need on the Red Line, it hasn’t been able to expand.
LA lawmakers vow to fight NIMBYs, build homeless housing in every district
Building housing for the homeless "needs to be done across our city... it is the humane thing to do."
Can architects help end LA’s homelessness crisis?
A new book highlights the work of students at the USC School of Architecture to shelter the city’s most vulnerable residents.
This short film shows how housing homeless residents is good for LA’s neighborhoods
A look inside the Skid Row Housing Trust’s life-changing developments.
LA will park trailers for the homeless at El Pueblo monument
A parking lot near the city’s birthplace will become a temporary shelter complex.
Poll finds most LA residents would welcome homeless housing in their neighborhoods
And the majority are willing to wait for big-picture solutions.
LA closing in on new rules to build homeless housing faster
With $1.2 billion to spend, the city wants to speed up delivery of new affordable projects.