Stories matching tag 'Homelessness'
Homeless Healthcare Los Angeles: The Stages of Change
Homeless Healthcare Los Angeles combats homelessness through medical care, education and drug treatment programs. [...]
Food Not Bombs takes alternative approach to feeding homeless
Food Not Bombs is against military and wasteful spending, so it collects food that would go to waste and gives it to Downtown Los Angeles' homeless. [...]
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. [...]
The push to make downtown L.A. a real city center
An NFL stadium and Staples Center expansion could make or break downtown Los Angeles. Angelenos share their thoughts. [...]
Food Closet feeds hungry, homeless students
A stash of food at UCLA is helping cash-strapped and homeless students fill their rumbling bellies. [...]
Only a few days left to save Hope Gardens homeless shelter
[...]
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. [...]
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.