Parents - and even the LAUSD superintendent - want action after an encampment near a school in the Westlake District has ...

For the first time since Los Angeles began tracking homelessness, the number of unhoused Angelenos has fallen for two ...

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 ...

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As a teenager in the late 1970s, Steve Richardson was sweeping and stocking shelves at a toy store on the edge of L.A.’s Skid Row when he noticed the first signs of a monumental change in the city.

A once-ascendant politician from Los Angeles County has found a new way to serve: heading a homeless service agency in ...

A homeless man's three-story treehouse crafted from scrap materials near downtown Los Angeles has been torn down by the city—but this setback has not deterred the enterprising architect. The elevated ...

Tents and other items were cleared out of a lot in Van Nuys early Thursday that has been the site of a large homeless encampment for years. The location is near the 405 Freeway near Oxnard Street, ...

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LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Coalitions of housing advocates are rallying in several U.S. cities. They're calling on policymakers to find permanent and humane solutions to homelessness. "The rent is too damn ...

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