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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 ANGELES (Dec. 6, 2021) – As tens of thousands of people in the region remain unhoused on sidewalks...
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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...