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Activists Urge L.A. City to Expand Project Roomkey Via Unlimited Federal Funds

By Joe Linton | Mar 5, 2021 | No Comments

FEMA is offering 100 percent reimbursement, but L.A. City is having difficulty finding up-front funding to use hotels as homes for unhoused neighbors

A masked woman hauls luggage in a cart at Marriot

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LA Mayor Approves Extension of Roomkey, but Council Says “Go Bigger”

By Damien Newton | Feb 12, 2021 | No Comments

Bonin: "They say where there's a will there's a way; In this case, there has to be a way." Raman: "We need to be ambitious; I've heard the word 'hundreds' but we need be hearing 'thousands' [of new rooms to be added to Roomkey]."

A woman unlocks the door to an apartment

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L.A. Mayor Garcetti to Bring “Hundreds” of Unhoused into Project Roomkey with New Federal Funds

By Damien Newton | Feb 4, 2021 | No Comments

What would you do if you had unlimited funds to run a program to provide housing to the unhoused during the pandemic?

One Untrash work party's collection. Image courtesy Untrash.it

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Untrashing the Planet, One Corner at a Time

By Melanie Curry | Jan 5, 2021 | No Comments

Cleaning up means working together, but also just getting out there with gloves and bags and picking up the trash.

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Documentary by Gardena High Alum Centers Stories of L.A.’s Unhoused Black Women

By Joe Linton and Sahra Sulaiman | Dec 23, 2020 | No Comments

Watch Zorrie Petrus' film 'Defining Ourselves For Ourselves: Unhoused, Black, and Female in L.A.'

covered outdoor space with tables, stove

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Lancaster Opens Campus with Housing and Jobs for Antelope Valley’s Homeless

By Damien Newton | Oct 20, 2020 | No Comments

"It was built to be as inviting as possible. We wanted to treat people like people." says Mayor Parris.

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