Youth, the elderly and whole families are tumbling into homelessness at a faster rate than they can be helped onto their feet.
Why Los Angeles researchers are looking differently at Skid Row.
With more money than ever to spend on homelessness, Los Angeles County offers fewer winter shelter beds than last year. Why?
Capital & Main looks back at the year through 10 stories.
What: Randy Shaw discusses his book, Generation Priced Out.
When/Where: Skylight Books, Los Angeles; Saturday, Nov. 17, 5 p.m.
When I began writing my new book on the pricing out of the working and middle class from urban America — Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America — the first place I turned to after the Bay Area was Los Angeles. I grew up in Los Angeles. I try to closely follow its land-use politics but was shocked to see how even neighborhoods like Boyle Heights faced displacement and gentrification. I also learned that Venice, which I always thought of as a progressive bastion, was filled with homeowners opposed to affordable housing in their neighborhood. The deeper I looked, the more I found the reasons for Los Angeles’ worsening housing and homelessness crisis: The city was not effectively protecting tenants and its rent-controlled units,
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For 10 days Capital & Main will look at homelessness through the eyes of the homeless – specifically, by seeing how they meet basic everyday needs.
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New federal data show that America’s homeless population has increased for the first time since 2010.
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