Housing & Homelessness

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Appeals court clears LAHSA to seek federal funds, rejecting Trump admin effort to sideline agency

The court decision Thursday is the latest in an ongoing fight over whether the L.A. region’s lead homeless services agency can access and direct federal dollars.

A new California law forces one community to try something different over homelessness

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At a talent show on Los Angeles’ Skid Row, the performers are all part of the homeless community

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How do you get a housing permit in California? He can hook you up, for a fee

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

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

With L.A. County and the feds already gone, eyes turn to the city of L.A.'s funding of the L.A. Homeless Services Authority.
Bass and Raman both promise to fix LA's homelessness problem. How do their plans differ?

Candidates laid out competing visions on homelessness at mayoral forums this week
$1 million in homeless funds for a nightclub? New LA fraud cases allege bribery and theft

Federal and local prosecutors unveil new cases and a guilty plea, while asking: Who was actually watching LAHSA's books?

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

The move by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority comes amid criticism from the Trump administration and local leaders over mismanagement allegations.
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.

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