Rina Palta

Traditionally, services for the homeless have been concentrated in L.A.'s Skid Row. But service providers are making a push to the suburbs, where many homeless live.

The L.A. County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to decide Tuesday whether to lift restrictions on who has access to public assistance for housing to allow ex-cons.

It's been almost a year since a blue ribbon panel declared a "state of emergency" in L.A. county's child welfare system. A new report says there's been some progress since.

A research team found youth in L.A. County's juvenile justice system had fallen through cracks in the county's social services — something that could be prevented with better data sharing.

A county official said the Housing Authority is hoping to add hundreds of housing vouchers for homeless veterans a day after KPCC reported the county was falling short.

Drug courts have been heralded as a successful and humane option for drug addicts. But when Proposition 47 made possession a misdemeanor, it limited eligibility to enroll in drug courts.

Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas has proposed requiring hotels that accept homeless housing vouchers to take measures to prevent sex trafficking in their rooms.

The past few months, legislators have proposed a series of bills to address what some child welfare advocates believe are the system's biggest flaws.

With an increase in homelessness, California cities have increasingly cracked down on things like sitting and sleeping in public, according to a new study.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Friday announced the first details of a plan to revamp the agency's West Los Angeles campus to house homeless veterans.

So far, 29 people have been murdered in Los Angeles in 2015, up from 23 at this time last year. Most of the spike is happening in LA's poorest neighborhoods.

In December, the LAO counted 588 empty beds, which cost the state about $230,000 each year - despite having a wait list of 550 patients.