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LA Times BY BENJAMIN ORESKES, DAVID LAUTER Amid deep frustration over widespread, visible homelessness, Los Angeles voters want the government to act faster and focus on shelter for people living in the streets, even if those efforts are short-term and fall short of...
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Top pollster finds local voters want stronger leadership, immediate short-term measures and a Right to Housing; voters losing hope and frustrated by lack of progress LOS...
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BY MARISA GERBER, DONOVAN X. RAMSEY On a recent morning, as the blanket of fog lifted into the sky, Aracelly Cauich hurried up a grassy knoll at Hollenbeck Park in Boyle...
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NEWSCONFERENCE A new survey indicates an astonishingly large number of those living in LA have thought about moving because of the homeless crisis. With nearly 40% of those...
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BY THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD The idea of owning a house with a backyard has long been part of the “California dream.” But the California reality for most people is renting...
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BY BENJAMIN ORESKES, JULIA WICK Facing an enormous public outcry to solve homelessness in Los Angeles, nearly all of the leading candidates for mayor in 2022 agree on at...
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BY LIAM DILLON Over the past few years, California governments have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the state’s homelessness problem, but progress has been hard to...
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BY BENJAMIN ORESKES, DAVID LAUTER Los Angeles County voters broadly support a legal right to shelter for all but offer tepid backing for new taxes that might pay for it, a...
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BY LIAM DILLON A majority of Los Angeles County voters back two new state laws designed to spur housing construction, including one that significantly changes traditional...
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BY BENJAMIN ORESKES, DAVID LAUTER Two years ago, the Los Angeles Times worked with the Los Angeles Business Council Institute to conduct a groundbreaking poll about...
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BY DAVID LAUTER Nearly half of Black voters in Los Angeles County have been homeless, have experienced housing insecurity in the past year or know someone who has — a...