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Rina Palta
Stories by Rina Palta
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L.A. County officials want more help for homeless people with mental health issues. As for those who refuse treatment, the options are imperfect.
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L.A. County officials say rising rents and low vacancy rates are hitting the region's mobile home parks. The Board of Supervisors will consider rent control Tuesday.
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The L.A. Metro system is trying a new approach to dealing with homeless who use trains as shelter: instead of police, outreach teams approach people sleeping on trains.
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"You want to stop chronic homelessness? Solve youth homelessness," says an advocate. But that takes money and effort.
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A pilot program targets parents with unstable housing in the hopes of helping more families reunite.
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The L.A. County Board of Supervisors dismissed Sean Rogan Tuesday, amidst a massive push to tackle the region's homeless problem.
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A National Guard Armory in Sylmar could become a shelter for homeless women under a plan up for approval by the L.A. County Board of Supervisors Tuesday.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
