Homelessness

For TAHO to succeed, city officials need staff to enforce it. But with the city in a hiring freeze, the law was written without funding for these positions.

Big Real Estate and other rent control opponents ignore key studies that have found that rent control is an effective tool to keep people housed

Government officials should take advantage of the energy and ideas from this latest effort to combat youth homelessness. Even if it takes an act of Congress.

It is a central focus of civil rights groups like the ACLU to actually address this civic shame, rather than playing yet another political shell game.

To prevent homelessness among students, politicians must urgently pass effective rent control policies.

Housing Is A Human Right exposed Blackstone’s shady dealing, but Schwarzman and other corporate landlords ended up defeating the initiative at the ballot box.

Making homelessness a hobbyhorse is one of California’s most durable traditions, at least as old as the state itself.

Karen Bass, like other Mayoral candidates, has too many political blinders to successfully tackle LA’s ever-worsening homeless crisis.

As of March, there were 3,214 18- to 24-year-olds seeking housing help through the county’s homeless authority.

Repeated letdowns that tip people over the edge–whether that edge be drugs, alcohol, or even suicide. We see some of these people talking to themselves.

Deregulation of zoning laws and the privatization of affordable housing are significant causes of homelessness?

Tenants who fought and won disputes over illegal construction can guide newer tenants through the procedure. They are proof that displacement is not inevitable.

The city’s ‘Right to Organize’ ordinance requires landlords to recognize tenant associations in their buildings.

Sonali Kolhatkar: The federal government has for years enabled the private market to make money off our housing needs. Now, as home prices and rents skyrocket, there is a simple solution: offer people a public option for housing.

A homelessness czar would be a non-politician, not beholden to appeasing his or her constituents, who for decades have spoken loudly to restrict housing development, usually for the purpose of keeping “other” people out of their neighborhoods.

Homekey provides local public entities with large, capital grants that can be used to purchase existing buildings and convert them into housing for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness.