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Rina Palta
Stories by Rina Palta
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County leaders are looking for ways to better support relatives who take in foster children. Child welfare advocates say they've been woefully ignored.
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As legislative deadlines near, handfuls of bills aimed at helping the poor are advancing through the state legislature this week.
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Some rehab centers are offering a moderation approach to alcohol, even for severe drug addicts. Addiction researchers are taking notice.
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The L.A. City Council's vote to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020 could reduce reliance on social safety net institutions, a UC Berkeley study finds.
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Assembly Bill 1335 would add a $75 fee to some real estate transactions and put that money in a fund to build subsidized housing.
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Congresswoman Maxine Waters says she'll ask the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to block L.A. County's proposed sale of 241 units of public housing.
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The U.S. Attorneys Office in L.A. has brought charges against high-ranking former officials in L.A.'s county jails. Legal experts anticipate a legal slugfest.
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This year's homeless census in L.A. found fewer homeless staying inside, in the very programs designed to transition individuals into permanent housing.
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L.A.'s homeless census concluded with bad news Monday: There are more people sleeping on the streets and in their cars in the county than there were two years ago.
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Supervisor Hilda Solis is proposing incentives for county contractors to hire the formerly incarcerated, the same way they're now encouraged to hire vets.
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A biennial count report due out Monday is expected to show a rise in the homeless in Venice, where an unarmed homeless man was killed by police this week.
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State and local officials gathered in Sacramento to ask for more money for programs and call for a statewide summit to find new ways to tackle the problem.
