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Black-led nonprofit to take over Skid Row People's Market, a longtime community hub
LA Times via Yahoo News· 5 months agoSkid Row People's Market will be sold to a Black-led nonprofit that serves the neighborhood,...
L.A. skid row residents angry over the destruction of a community hub
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoStephanie Williams, an advocate for homeless people, was living inside a canopy tent house on...
California's big cities are usually dry. Floods make a homelessness crisis even worse.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 4 months agoSAN DIEGO – Record rains have soaked California's cities, exacerbating a homelessness crisis and...
L.A. strongly approves of Mayor Bass but skeptical about fixing homelessness, poll shows
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoGregory Gibson spends a warm moment with his dog Popcorn in front of his tent in skid row in...
Southern California blizzard warning will unleash 'real danger' upon unhoused people in LA County
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAs unusual wintry weather descends on the Los Angeles area this week, homeless service providers are...
Mobile hair and beauty service provides makeovers for the soul in Skid Row
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen you look good, it can help you feel good. And that goes for anyone. Beauty may be only...
Homeless people fight to save lives, and stay alive, as L.A.'s fentanyl crisis worsens
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJasmine Paredes, right, lost both parents to cancer when she was young and smokes meth to numb...
Andy Bales retires after 20 years at the Union Rescue Mission leaving a final legacy: his house
LA Times via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAs the Rev. Andy Bales heads home to Iowa after 20 years as president and chief executive of the...
How to help unhoused Angelenos during the heat wave
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe intense heat wave is expected to last through Labor Day weekend. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) California is headed toward its worst heat wave of...
A graffiti ‘takeover’ roils downtown Los Angeles
CNN via Yahoo News· 1 week agoClimbing up abandoned, unfinished floors and tightrope walking across balcony ledges, backpacks clanging with cans of alkyd and acrylic, a collective of...