Unhoused Angelenos have become a political football just as pandemic-era programs that offered effective interventions are set to expire.

The Los Angeles mayoral front-runner was a member of the GOP until recently and is winning based on wild promises to sweep the city’s problems under the rug.

Just 7 percent of the people in Los Angeles’s Echo Park encampment found permanent housing after it was cleared. Almost half are missing. Seven are dead. That’s not a failure of homelessness policy; it’s an example of the system working exactly as intended.

Tens of thousands of unhoused people in Los Angeles County suffered through a massive downpour this week. Now comes the bitter cold.

Everyone talks about universal pre-K and childcare, and they should. But the housing money in the bill—while still not nearly enough—would at least start to address a true crisis.

Los Angeles wants the unhoused out of its combustible canyons. But no one ever suggests banning the rich from those same hills.

Affluent Southern Californians are funding a massive effort to criminalize the unhoused and defeat their few remaining political allies.

For those who live there, Chicago’s Ewing Annex Hotel is a refuge, an artifact, and a last chance. The man who’s been holding it together for more than 20 years is about to retire.

For nearly a year, the men of the Lucerne hotel have seen the worst of the city’s self-described liberal residents. They’ve also exposed a decades-long policy failure in permanent housing.

In a city with thousands of vacant homes, families are still homeless. Jennifer Bennetch decided to do something about it.

On working amid paranoid customers, hungry shoplifters, sick co-workers, and people who just need a bathroom

During a summer of uprising and mutual aid, Nadine Little moved from park underpasses to hotels and back again. She’s not alone.

Americans are increasingly frustrated by the obligation to ride out a global disaster on their own. They have every reason to be.

How a group of Manhattan liberals used the language of “community” to evict people living in temporary housing from their neighborhood.

Looking ahead to a new wave of evictions, flu season, dropping temperatures, and a pandemic with no end in sight.

“We were shut out of our rooms ... I really don’t know what’s next.”

What community solidarity in the wake of police violence and a devastated economy say about government malice

A “safe parking lot” in San Diego is a haven and a holding pattern during the coronavirus lockdown and an ongoing housing crisis.

Hospital workers, street medics, and people in prison describe navigating the coronavirus and life as they know it right now.

In response to a reformist chorus directing them to wait, Moms 4 Housing opted to address a housing crisis with immediate action—and won.