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L.A. Wants To Commandeer Vacant Hotel Rooms as Homeless Housing

Los Angeles voters will decide in March whether to force hotels to report empty rooms to the city and accept vouchers from homeless people.

Reason

Silicon Valley Sits on the Sidelines in the Fight Against Homelessness

With the right app, you can get anything you want. So why can’t the unhoused find one to help them get a roof over their heads?

Capital & Main

L.A. Hotel Workers Fight an Uphill Battle to Live Where They Work

Making developers who stoke the housing crisis repair the damage they’ve done.

Capital & Main

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Homeless advocates urge LA leaders to buy downtown hotel and turn it into housing

LOS ANGELES — Homeless advocates on Friday called on city leaders to purchase the L.A. Grand Hotel, which has served as emergency shelter during the COVID-19 pandemic, to convert into permanent housing.

Los Angeles Times

LA voters to decide whether hotels must rent vacant rooms to unhoused Angelenos

LOS ANGELES — A controversial measure that would require hotels in Los Angeles to provide vacant rooms to homeless people will go before voters in 2024, the City Council decided Friday.

Los Angeles Times

LA cracks down on homeless encampments near schools, over the jeers of protesters

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to prohibit homeless people from setting up tents within 500 feet of schools and day care centers, during a raucous meeting where protesters shouted down council members and, at one point, halted the meeting.

Los Angeles Times

Homeless and hoarding in LA: The special struggles and anxieties of unhoused people

LOS ANGELES — In his dim motel room, flies and dust swirled through a slanted blade of sunlight. A shoulder-high heap of boxes, trash bags, electronics and clothes prevented him from opening the curtains.

Los Angeles Times

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‘Where do they expect us to go?’ Life at one Bay Area encampment before eviction

For many unhoused Californians, disabilities make life at a temporary shelter nearly impossible

The Guardian - US

One year after LA evicted the unhoused from a park, few are in stable housing

Revealed: county data and interviews with displaced residents of Echo Park Lake suggest that many ended up back on the streets in worse conditions

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