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Released after just under 30 years in prison for a murder he committed at 16, Nicholas Nabors was bogged down in transitional housing until a volunteer for the nonprofit Homecoming Project took him into her Compton home.
When the matriarch died, investors eyed the Cypress Park rental she had owned since the 1970s. Then a local nonprofit stepped in to buy the property and preserve affordable rents for its nine residents.
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked a judge’s order to build temporary housing on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ West Los Angeles campus by early next year, and set an accelerated schedule to hear the government’s appeal of the order.
Los Angeles County supervisors gave qualified approval to a plan to study the creation of a county department to manage homeless services.
Two Los Angeles County Supervisors are proposing a radical overhaul of county homeless services by creating a new department that would take back hundreds of millions of dollars from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.
Los Angeles city Controller Kenneth Mejia reported that the city failed to spend nearly half of the $1.3 billion budgeted for homelessness in 2023-24.
An audit of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority has found lax accounting procedures. The LAHSA executive director says she knew of these problems and has been working to fix them.
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of appeals has issued an emergency stay stopping work on the installation of more than 100 units of modular housing on the campus.
A measure that would double L.A. County’s quarter-percent homeless sales tax is closing in on the majority it needs to pass, a poll of likely voters found.
