Stories matching tag 'Homeless'
Housing the homeless in Watts
Volunteers combed through the streets of Watts this morning in search of the city's most vulernable homeless. It is part of 100,000, a campaign that aims to put 100 thousand homeless in homes by 2013. [...]
The meaning of Christmas, from Skid Row
Kiera, an imaginative 7-year-old formerly living at the Union Rescue Mission, tells the Nativity Story in her own special way. [...]
Los Angeles Police Department argues nonprofits are better than handouts on Skid Row
Few would disagree that donating time or resources to the homeless is a good idea for the community. But the way the homeless receive assistance can either help or hurt them. [...]
Apartments offer studios for homeless and low-income people
The newly opened Renato Apartments on San Julian Street offers housing for homeless and low-income individuals. [...]
Food Closet feeds hungry, homeless students
A stash of food at UCLA is helping cash-strapped and homeless students fill their rumbling bellies. [...]
Winter shelters close, forcing hundreds of homeless back to the streets
Winter homeless shelters in Los Angeles close in mid-March. The city denied a request to extend the program, despite a "new homeless" population. [...]
Housing the homeless has benefits
A study by the United Way finds it may be more cost-effective to get the homeless into homes. [...]
Beyond Shelter’s Barbara Hill on Homelessness in South LA
(originally posted on Annenberg Radio News 3-6-09)
ARN’s Kaitlin Funaro speaks with Barbara Hill of Beyond Shelter about what non-profits are doing to help combat homelessness in Los Angeles.
Homelessness in Los Angeles
(originally posted on Annenberg Radio News 3-5-2009)
The foreclosure crisis coupled with an economic meltdown has put more strain on a neighborhood still struggling to reinvent itself.