Here’s how fires and floods are intensifying the US housing crisis
The wildfires levied significant long-term damage, with thousands of homes destroyed, billions in damages and a worsening of ...
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The Los Angeles fires aren’t about your favorite celebs
Even working-class Palisades residents — ranging from housekeepers to engineers — have been virtually ignored in favor of a ...
LA controller to audit city’s encampment cleanup program
We will create a concrete picture of whether CARE/CARE+ is an effective and humane use of over $60 million of taxpayer ...
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LA City Controller to Audit City’s Encampment Cleanup Program
The City Controller Monday announced plans to audit Los Angeles’s Comprehensive Cleaning and Rapid Engagement program, which was launched in 2019 to maintain city streets and address encampments.
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Marking a First: Ysabel Jurado brings community together at inauguration
“Community” describes the atmosphere at Councilmember Ysabel Jurado’s swearing-in ceremony on Feb. 1. Jurado’s supporters packed the Los Angeles Central Library’s Mark Taper Auditorium for the event, ...
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From Nahant, changing lives one mile at a time
For one town resident, the mission to help the homeless and the impoverished began with a calling to do more in his community. Leighton O’Connor, who also spends time as a pastor in Lynnfield, has had ...
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Wildfires, floods fueled by climate change are ravaging U.S. communities, exacerbating housing crisis nationwide
After nearly a month, the Eaton and Palisades wildfires that ravaged California have been contained. But for Southern ...
Editorial: Out on the streets to count L.A.’s unhoused, volunteers learn far more than numbers can convey
Volunteers arrive at about 150 deployment centers, where they get flashlights and maps and assemble into small groups for the ...
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Los Angeles’s first Fil-Am councilmember sworn into office
Housing rights attorney Ysabel Jurado was sworn into the Los Angeles City Council as its first Filipino American member ...
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Ysabel Jurado, LA’s first Fil-Am councilmember, sworn into office
Los Angeles Councilmember Ysabel Jurado of CD14 (center left) is joined by Dolores Huerta (left), LA Mayor Karen Bass (center ...
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As wildfires burn, arson reports are rising in Los Angeles
While the arson numbers are disconcerting, especially in the wake of the wildfires, the situation may be getting worse.