Housing and Homelessness

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  Raman’s role in tackling homelessness comes under scrutiny in L.A. mayor’s race

  Los Angeles Times - Noah Goldberg

  Nithya Raman has made Los Angeles’ struggle to combat homelessness a key plank in her mayoral campaign, yet her own record on the matter has itself become an issue with her ouster as head of the City Council committee seeking solutions to the crisis. Mayor Karen Bass is at the helm of the city’s …

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  Water main break floods Westlake streets and homeless encampment

  Los Angeles Times - Salvador Hernandez

  A water main break flooded streets in Westlake on Thursday, including a homeless encampment, which was surrounded by water in the early-morning hours. The break was reported at about 3:30 a.m. along Beverly Boulevard, near North Occidental Boulevard, said Lesly Figueroa, spokesperson with the Los …

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  How to save $2,000 a month in L.A.: Rent

  Los Angeles Times - Annika Duneja

  Some Los Angeles-area renters may feel a secret shame of not owning their homes, but maybe they should be bragging. Right now, renting is a much better deal. People in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metropolitan area looking to get into a smaller home on average would save more than $2,000 a …

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  After local outcry, stalled Destination Crenshaw project sees movement

  Los Angeles Times - Jack Flemming

  Destination Crenshaw has taken so long that neighbors have their own name for it: Procrastination Crenshaw. Pitched in 2016 and started in 2021, the $100-million beautification project was meant to transform 1.3 miles of the Crenshaw Corridor into an open-air museum filled with art and gathering …

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  Federal judge blocks the Trump administration’s attempt to take control of L.A.’s homelessness programs

  Los Angeles Times - Doug Smith

  A federal judge issued a scathing order Thursday blocking a gambit by the Trump administration to take control of federal funding for homelessness programs in Los Angeles County. In issuing a preliminary injunction, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter found that the U.S. Department of Housing and …

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  RFK Jr. and HUD secretary rip L.A. homeless agencies and endorse faith-based alternatives

  Los Angeles Times - Doug Smith

  As a federal judge weighs whether to block the Trump administration’s suspension of the region’s lead homeless agency, two members of the president’s cabinet came to Los Angeles to plead their case. At a press conference Tuesday, Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner and …