Homelessness
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February 2022 Metro Board Meeting Recap: Security, Homelessness, Valley Rail, and More
The Metro board meeting focused mostly on issues related to transit system security and homelessness. Also - brief updates on East San Fernando Valley light rail, ridership, and more.
February 27, 2023
Three Ways DOTs Can Help the Unhoused — On and Off the Road
A new study finds that departments of transportation can and must do more to protect a particularly vulnerable group: the unhoused people who take shelter on and alongside American roads.
February 23, 2023
Talking Headways Podcast: The Overlap of Public Transit and Homelessness
Here's a very good conversation about the need for more federal agency coordination among transportation, health, and human services as well as how transit agencies are tackling the issues vulnerable populations face.
February 16, 2023
L.A. City Council Approves Significant New Renter Protections
Tennant protections represent an important, though incomplete, victory for L.A. tenants and for the council's growing progressive cohort
January 24, 2023
United to House L.A. Proponents Rally for Resources to End Homelessness
If passed, "Measure ULA" would enact a new tax on the sale of high value property in L.A. City; tax revenues would be dedicated to projects and programs to end homelessness.
September 8, 2022
Council Gives Final Nod to Ordinance that Bans Sidewalk Repair, Sale and Storage of Bicycles on Public Property
"If you have an issue with one or two people, you take it up with them. You don't pass a law that's going to make everyone's lives worse."
June 22, 2022
New L.A. Ordinance Cracking Down on Bicycle “Chop Shops” Ghost of Defunct Mayoral Campaign
The city attorney inserted a clause meant to protect individuals whose bikes break down in the street, but didn't address the role curbside repair sites play in keeping those individuals moving
June 16, 2022
How to Save the Lives of Unhoused Pedestrians
A disproportionate number of unhoused pedestrians are being killed in car crashes across America — and protecting this uniquely vulnerable group will require a set of strategies that both include and exceed even the conventional street safety playbook, a new study argues.
June 14, 2022
United to House L.A. Proponents Submit Signatures to Qualify for November Ballot
United to House L.A. gathered 98,171 signatures, well above the roughly 62,000 needed to qualify for the L.A. City November 8 ballot
May 3, 2022
L.A. Ballot Measure to Take on Housing and Homelessness Crises
"It's time for the millionaires and billionaires in Los Angeles to pay their fair share and help us address the housing and homelessness crisis in Los Angeles."
March 7, 2022
