Earlier this year, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass issued a statement titled “Lasting Change: Annual Homelessness Count Down Two Years in a Row for the First Time Ever in Los Angeles.” LA officials ...
We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Journalist Brian Goldstone, who has written for The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, The New Republic and others, ...
In his new book about the working homeless, "There is No Place for Us," Brian Goldstone follows five families as they struggle to find stable housing against a backdrop of low-wage work, predatory ...
New York City housing advocate Patrick Markee’s new book, Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age, looks at ...
One approach to solving a huge problem such as homelessness in Los Angeles County is to tackle it piece-by-piece, one unhoused group at a time. That’s the thinking expressed by the Los Angeles County ...
Los Angeles released new estimates of the region’s unhoused population earlier this month. The estimates show that after years of increases, the numbers in LA have gone down, despite the fact that ...
When Sam Quinones finished writing his 2015 best-selling exposé on black tar heroin and oxycodone–Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic–he figured he was pretty much done. “I thought ...