Los Angeles experienced its first wide-scale homelessness during two periods of national upheaval — the Great Depression and the housing crunch after World War II. In both cases, the crises abated. In ...

Earlier this year, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass issued a statement titled “Lasting Change: Annual Homelessness Count Down Two Years in a Row for the First Time Ever in Los Angeles.” LA officials ...

In New York City, 100,000 people sleep in shelters every night. Patrick Markee has spent decades fighting for them with the Coalition for the Homeless. He’s written a new book that gives an ...

One approach to solving a huge problem such as homelessness in Los Angeles County is to tackle it piece-by-piece, one unhoused group at a time. That’s the thinking expressed by the Los Angeles County ...

The Greater Los Angeles region experienced a second consecutive year-over-year decline in people experiencing homelessness, according to figures released Monday, but authorities warned that more ...

Los Angeles released new estimates of the region's unhoused population earlier this month. The estimates show that after years of increases, the numbers in LA have gone down, despite the fact that ...

When Sam Quinones finished writing his 2015 best-selling exposé on black tar heroin and oxycodone–Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic–he figured he was pretty much done. “I thought ...

This photo shows a homeless encampment on Beaudry Avenue as traffic moves along Interstate 110 in downtown Los Angeles, May 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File) LOS ANGELES (CN) — The number of ...