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Major fire near homeless encampment under 10 Freeway brings traffic chaos to LA

Mile long section of 10 Freeway which sees 300,000 vehicles daily now closed indefinitely

The Independent UK

Los Angeles motorists urged to take public transport after massive fire closes interstate

Officials say Los Angeles motorists should expect traffic snarls as crews assess how much damage was caused by a weekend fire that closed a major elevated interstate near downtown

The Independent UK

After massive fire closes Los Angeles interstate, motorists urged to take public transport

Los Angeles motorists should expect traffic snarls indefinitely as crews assess how much damage was caused by a weekend fire that closed a major elevated interstate near downtown

The Independent UK

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Los Angeles Mayor Orders Residential Hotels to Be Opened for Temporary Shelter

A 2008 city law intended hotels used as primary residences to be preserved as safety-net housing. But with little enforcement, some landlords had turned their buildings into tourist hotels.

Capital & Main

Armed man shouting ‘Free Palestine’ arrested after breaking into Jewish family’s LA home

Shocking incident took place in city’s Studio City neighbourhood as war in Middle East continues to deepen

The Independent UK

To tackle homelessness faster, LA has a kind of real estate agency for the unhoused

A Los Angeles program aggressively scouts vacant units and lobbies landlords in one of the country's tightest real estate markets. Some landlords offer up units even before putting them on the market.

WEKU

L.A. Housing Department Proposes Increasing Residential Hotel Enforcement

Amid the city’s homelessness crisis, some landlords have turned buildings meant for low-cost housing into tourist hotels.

Capital & Main

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Los Angeles city and county to spend billions to help homeless people under lawsuit settlement

Los Angeles County and city will spend billions of dollars to provide more housing and support services for homeless people under a lawsuit settlement approved by a federal judge

The Independent UK

As a tropical storm bore down on Southern California, Texas sent migrants on a bus to Los Angeles

The migrants, mostly from Venezuela, voluntarily took the bus ride from Brownsville to Los Angeles even as Tropical Storm Hilary crossed into Southern California.

The Texas Tribune

Greg Abbott branded ‘evil’ for sending migrant bus to LA in middle of tropical storm Hilary

‘It is evil to endanger the lives of vulnerable migrants by sending a bus with families and toddlers on board to a city that at the time was under an unprecedented tropical storm warning,’ LA Mayor Karen Bass said

The Independent UK

Thousands of Los Angeles city workers walk off job for 24 hours alleging unfair labor practices

Thousands of Los Angeles city employees, including sanitation workers, engineers and traffic officers, walked off the job for a 24-hour strike alleging unfair labor practices

The Independent UK

California Gov. Gavin Newsom offers to help negotiate Hollywood strike

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has offered to help negotiate an end to the strikes that have hobbled Hollywood

The Independent UK

How We Found What the City of L.A. Didn’t: Landlords Renting Low-Cost Housing to Tourists

Hotel ads, booking sites and guest reviews. Tourists staying in rooms meant for low-cost housing. Yet the city’s Housing Department has cited few landlords for violating the residential hotel law.

Capital & Main

Fifth bus of asylum seekers arrives in Los Angeles from Texas

Bus was carrying 44 people hailing from Colombia, China, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela, including 14 children

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WEKU

Why can't we stop homelessness? 4 reasons why there's no end in sight

Many cities have devoted considerable focus and money to house people, only to see the number living outside continue to rise.

Capital & Main

Checked Out: How L.A. Failed to Stop Landlords From Turning Low-Cost Housing Into Tourist Hotels

Fifteen years ago, Los Angeles passed a law to preserve residential hotels as housing of last resort. Now, amid the homelessness crisis, some hotels may be violating that law by offering rooms to tourists.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: LA’s homeless numbers are grim. We must keep building housing and expanding services

Once again, the news from the annual tally of the Los Angeles County homeless population is grim. Based on the three-night point-in-time count conducted in January, the number of homeless people in Los Angeles rose by 10% to 46,260 this year from 41,980 in 2022. The overall number in Los…

Los Angeles Times

LA County leaders vow to continue supporting migrant Angelenos based on State of Immigrants report

Focusing on ways to serve immigrants better and give them more of a voice on a host of economic and social issues, local legislators, academics and nonprofit leaders gathered last week at the fourth L.A. immigration summit.

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LA mayor ousts Native American DWP commissioner; Indigenous groups outraged

Cynthia Ruiz, the first Native American ever to serve on the Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners, got some bad news from City Hall recently.

The Guardian - US

Another bus with dozens of migrants from Texas arrives in Los Angeles

Busload of 41 people, including 11 children who were with families, was welcomed by collective of faith and immigrants’ rights groups

The Independent UK

2nd bus carrying asylum seekers from Texas arrives in Los Angeles

A bus carrying migrants from a Texas border city has arrived in downtown Los Angeles for the second time in less than three weeks

Los Angeles Times

Another bus carrying dozens of migrants from Texas arrived Saturday at LA

Another bus carrying dozens of migrants from Texas arrived at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday afternoon, courtesy of the governor and taxpayers of the Lone Star State.

The Independent UK

Number of homeless residents in Los Angeles County jumps by 9% in annual count

The number of homeless residents counted in Los Angeles County has spiked again, increasing by 9% since last year

The Guardian - US

Los Angeles unhoused population reaches 75,000 amid humanitarian crisis

Annual government count shows 9% increase, sharper than last year’s 4%, in country’s most populous county

Los Angeles Times

Homelessness continues to soar, jumping 9% in LA County, 10% in the city

Homelessness continued to rise dramatically, increasing by 9% in Los Angeles County and 10% in the city of Los Angeles last year, in a stark illustration of the challenges faced by officials trying to reduce the number of people living on the streets.

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