Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement During an ebullient January ceremony for the first project completed with funding from the city’s , Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti framed the moment as a turning point. “We will see an opening of one of these about every three weeks this year,” Garcetti said.That didn’t happen. Nearly six months later, there has been only one other opening to celebrate. Five other projects that were scheduled to open by now have not, and dozens of others have had their schedules pushed back by months.AdvertisementAlready sharply for its slow...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement During an ebullient January ceremony for the first project completed with funding from the city’s , Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti framed the moment as a turning point. “We will see an opening of one of these about every three weeks this year,” Garcetti said.That didn’t happen. Nearly six months later, there has been only one other opening to celebrate. Five other projects that were scheduled to open by now have not, and dozens of others have had their schedules pushed back by months.AdvertisementAlready sharply for its slow...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Life wasn’t easy on the streets. But, for a time, it was at least predictable.Terrance Whitten would hang out all day at Farmers Market, the Beverly Center or the Fairfax Library. Then he’d catch the bus to his secret sleeping place: the storage unit where he kept his belongings. His future brightened when his case manager told him he’d been matched to an apartment in Glassell Park. He filled out the paperwork and previewed the unit.His written record of what came next screams with all-caps pain: “LIBRARIES CLOSE!”; “ALL CITY AGENCIES CLOSE!!!!”;...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Life wasn’t easy on the streets. But, for a time, it was at least predictable.Terrance Whitten would hang out all day at Farmers Market, the Beverly Center or the Fairfax Library. Then he’d catch the bus to his secret sleeping place: the storage unit where he kept his belongings. His future brightened when his case manager told him he’d been matched to an apartment in Glassell Park. He filled out the paperwork and previewed the unit.His written record of what came next screams with all-caps pain: “LIBRARIES CLOSE!”; “ALL CITY AGENCIES CLOSE!!!!”;...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Only about half of the 15,000 hotel and motel rooms that California has leased for mostly homeless people to slow the spread of the coronavirus are now occupied, a review of state records by The Times shows.More than a month into Gov. Gavin Newsom’s program to get homeless people off the streets, the occupied rooms account for — at most — less than 5% of the 151,000 people who sleep on street corners, under bridges and in emergency shelters across California.As of Monday, 7,919 hotel rooms had guests and another 7,700 were vacant,...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Only about half of the 15,000 hotel and motel rooms that California has leased for mostly homeless people to slow the spread of the coronavirus are now occupied, a review of state records by The Times shows.More than a month into Gov. Gavin Newsom’s program to get homeless people off the streets, the occupied rooms account for — at most — less than 5% of the 151,000 people who sleep on street corners, under bridges and in emergency shelters across California.As of Monday, 7,919 hotel rooms had guests and another 7,700 were vacant,...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement A federal judge overseeing a sprawling lawsuit about homelessness in Los Angeles ordered the city and county Tuesday to offer some form of shelter or housing to the entire homeless population of skid row by October. granted a preliminary injunction sought by the plaintiffs in the case last week and now is telling the city and county that they must offer single women and unaccompanied children on skid row a place to stay within 90 days, help families within 120 days and finally, by Oct. 18, offer every homeless person on skid row...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement A federal judge overseeing a sprawling lawsuit about homelessness in Los Angeles ordered the city and county Tuesday to offer some form of shelter or housing to the entire homeless population of skid row by October. granted a preliminary injunction sought by the plaintiffs in the case last week and now is telling the city and county that they must offer single women and unaccompanied children on skid row a place to stay within 90 days, help families within 120 days and finally, by Oct. 18, offer every homeless person on skid row...WW…

close This copy is for your personal non-commercial use only. To orderpresentation-ready copies of Toronto Star content for distributionto colleagues, clients or customers, or inquire aboutpermissions/licensing, please go to: The elation in the voice of Wendy Sparks is palpable about eight hours before her son was to fulfil one of his life’s dreams.She’s on the phone from her Montreal home: the church service she holds virtually completed for another Sunday morning, the anticipation of the evening to come building rapidly.The mother of new centre Khem Birch can barely contain herself after...…close This copy is for your personal non-commercial use only. To orderpresentation-ready copies of Toronto Star content for distributionto colleagues, clients or customers, or inquire aboutpermissions/licensing, please go to: The elation in the voice of Wendy Sparks is palpable about eight hours before her son was to fulfil one of his life’s dreams.She’s on the phone from her Montreal home: the church service she holds virtually completed for another Sunday morning, the anticipation of the evening to come building rapidly.The mother of new centre Khem Birch can barely contain herself after...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement At a time when multiplying tent camps are making homelessness appear to be an ever-worsening fact of life in Los Angeles, a sign of hope has arisen in Hollywood, historically among the region’s magnets for those living on the fringe.Last year, contrary to what many residents and homeless advocates alike perceived, the number of people sleeping on Hollywood’s streets declined by 12%, reversing an upward trend of several years.That’s the finding of an unofficial count of the unsheltered population conducted by a coalition of Hollywood...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement At a time when multiplying tent camps are making homelessness appear to be an ever-worsening fact of life in Los Angeles, a sign of hope has arisen in Hollywood, historically among the region’s magnets for those living on the fringe.Last year, contrary to what many residents and homeless advocates alike perceived, the number of people sleeping on Hollywood’s streets declined by 12%, reversing an upward trend of several years.That’s the finding of an unofficial count of the unsheltered population conducted by a coalition of Hollywood...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The Los Angeles City Council appears to be heading toward a settlement of by agreeing to provide new housing or shelter for thousands of homeless people, while being able to use anti-camping laws to clear anyone remaining on the streets. The new beds would be spread across the city, based on the number of homeless people estimated to be living in each City Council district in 2020, and could require every council member to find locations for hundreds of new beds.It’s not clear how much the city might have to spend to fund this...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The Los Angeles City Council appears to be heading toward a settlement of by agreeing to provide new housing or shelter for thousands of homeless people, while being able to use anti-camping laws to clear anyone remaining on the streets. The new beds would be spread across the city, based on the number of homeless people estimated to be living in each City Council district in 2020, and could require every council member to find locations for hundreds of new beds.It’s not clear how much the city might have to spend to fund this...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | It was a movie-worthy meeting. She was stranded at Union Station, penniless and homeless for the first time in her life. He had a tent outside and came in to get out of the cold.“He was like, ‘Are you OK?’” Valerie Zeller, 52, recalled. “I was like, ‘Leave me alone.’”“He was like, ‘Do you need someplace to stay?’ I was just kind of speechless. I was like, ‘Yeah.’ He was like, ‘I won’t try to do nothing.’ I said, ‘Yeah, OK. Why not?’”That night last September she slept in his tent while he sat outside. It was only a few weeks before she...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | It was a movie-worthy meeting. She was stranded at Union Station, penniless and homeless for the first time in her life. He had a tent outside and came in to get out of the cold.“He was like, ‘Are you OK?’” Valerie Zeller, 52, recalled. “I was like, ‘Leave me alone.’”“He was like, ‘Do you need someplace to stay?’ I was just kind of speechless. I was like, ‘Yeah.’ He was like, ‘I won’t try to do nothing.’ I said, ‘Yeah, OK. Why not?’”That night last September she slept in his tent while he sat outside. It was only a few weeks before she...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Breaking News Advertisement The magnitude 6.6 Sylmar earthquake that shook Southern California on Feb. 9, 1971, caused significant damage and 64 deaths. What few realized at the time was how close it came to being far more catastrophic. The disaster still holds lessons 50 years later. How close Los Angeles came to what would have been — many times over— the deadliest disaster in U.S. history remains a matter of historical conjecture.When the Sylmar earthquake rumbled through Los Angeles 50 years ago, on Feb. 9, 1971, the top of the earthen Lower...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Breaking News Advertisement The magnitude 6.6 Sylmar earthquake that shook Southern California on Feb. 9, 1971, caused significant damage and 64 deaths. What few realized at the time was how close it came to being far more catastrophic. The disaster still holds lessons 50 years later. How close Los Angeles came to what would have been — many times over— the deadliest disaster in U.S. history remains a matter of historical conjecture.When the Sylmar earthquake rumbled through Los Angeles 50 years ago, on Feb. 9, 1971, the top of the earthen Lower...WW…

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