Rina Palta
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L.A.'s jails are full of inmates who have nowhere to go once they're released. An expanding program aims to find housing for individuals with complex cases. -
Money is about to start pouring in to L.A. County's most ambitious (and expensive) effort yet to tackle homelessness. A 1/4 cent sales tax hike will fund the effort. -
L.A.'s health chief, a longtime advocate for the county's poor and homeless, is leaving for New York. Dr. Mitch Katz will leave at the end of the year. -
In preparation for what could be an affordable housing building boom in Los Angeles, a group of philanthropists has doubled a key loan program for developers. -
A proposed mobile sewer service for homeless living in their RV's will get its first test Wednesday before the L.A. City Council's Homelessness and Poverty Committee. -
A $3.9 million settlement for a teenage boy left with brain damage and paralysis after a fight inside one of L.A. County's juvenile halls is up for approval. -
It's California's third-poorest county. Unemployment is nearly 25 percent. Homelessness tripled since the previous year. And children are even worse off, with one in three living in poverty. -
With foster kids in Los Angeles experiencing high rates of homelessness, dropping out of school, and suicide, a new center aims to offer aid. -
As L.A. County embarks on a massive effort to house tens of thousands of homeless people over the next few years, officials are looking to the data for help. -
The vast majority of housing for low-income renters in Los Angeles has been built in the county's very poorest neighborhoods. The research says that's a problem.
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