Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is proposing a city budget of $12.8 billion for the 2024-25 fiscal year – a decrease of $293 million (about 2%) from the current fiscal year as the city grapples with rising labor costs and other expenses, plus lower-than-expected revenues. Despite an overall decrease in planned spending, officials insist the …
A lot of bad luck led 62-year-old Army veteran Julie Blow to homelessness – a serious kidney issues, a fall that cost her the sight in one eye, two surgeries. Blow couldn’t work, and ran out of money. And now? She has an apartment; brand-new furniture donated by a local retailer; and a TV. The …
CHICO — The city scheduled anti-camping enforcements to include at least 12 homeless people, with advanced noticing beginning April 19 at Lost Park, the bike path by Skyway and Highway 99 north; as well as an empty parcel by Humboldt Avenue between Pine and Olive streets. The city determined that six homeless people live by …
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is set to deliver the annual State of the City address on Monday, April 15 – ahead of the release of her proposed 2024-25 budget in the coming days. The mayor’s office hasn’t provided details of Bass’ upcoming speech, but many of the topics she touched on during last year’s …
CHICO — In the span of nearly two years since Chico resumed anti-camping ordinance enforcements, after being sued and banned from doing so in 2021, its four-phase process requiring advance notices to homeless people to vacate public property has been conducted 19 times, as counted by this newspaper. The city is set for its 20th …
About 150 transit activists called on LA Metro Thursday, March 28 to scrap plans for an in-house police department and instead spend up to $100 million to hire more unarmed Transit Ambassadors. Members of groups who represent low-income, transit-dependent riders said Metro should augment safety patrols — not with armed officers but with more ambassadors, …
CHICO — Unsheltered homeless people in areas of Chico were given notice to start packing up early Wednesday morning as part of an enforcement process following settlement terms of Warren v. Chico. They were familiar with the process, and a few shared their lived experiences and how they are at working toward shelter — or …
CHICO — Local officials are preparing to relocate campers gathered in three areas of Chico, including downtown and a stretch of road by the Genesis shelter facility. City Manager Mark Sorensen announced Wednesday evening that seven-day notices to vacate will be issued March 27 to unhoused people at City Plaza, along Dr. Martin Luther King …
Local and federal resources are available to help people experiencing homelessness, but “parts of the system that need to be working better together” have left this D.C. mother without a roof over her head for nearly six months. This article is part of a WTOP series following Belinda Whitfield’s story. This page contains a video …
By JOSE HERRERA LOS ANGELES — The City Council moved forward Friday on plans to begin a “master leasing” program in the city — picking up an approach already in use by LA County to expand the number of available units for unhoused residents. “Master leasing is the securing of all or part of an …