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Crime / Homelessness

This LA neighborhood remains free of homeless tents. The I-Team reveals why

September 19, 2024 | NBC 4 Los Angeles

As the I-Team reported in August, the city cleared away encampments on Hollywood Boulevard between Gower Street and Wilton Place, just days before it closed the street for thousands of bicyclists for the event called CicLAvia.

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Development

A mixed-use Costco, low-income housing development breaks ground in South LA

September 18, 2024 | CBS News

City and state leaders celebrated the groundbreaking of a South Los Angeles 800-apartment-unit complex to be built above a new Costco, with 184 units dedicated to low-income housing.

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Crime / Homelessness

LA’s Inside Safe program cleans up Koreatown homeless encampment

September 18, 2024 | ABC 7 Los Angeles

The office of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass conducted another Inside Safe operation on Tuesday, a program designed to get the homeless off the streets and into housing.

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Crime / Homelessness

Exclusive: California’s homeless population grew again this year, especially in these counties

September 10, 2024 | CalMatters

New data shows nearly 186,000 people now live on the streets and in homeless shelters in California, proving the crisis continues to grow despite increasing state and local efforts to stem the tide.

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Crime / Homelessness

L.A. homicides down slightly so far in 2024: report

September 6, 2024 | KTLA 5

New data released from the Los Angeles Police Department shows that the city’s murder rate has dipped from the previous year, down 6.2% from 2023.

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Crime / Homelessness

California has spent billions on homelessness but lacks hard data on outcomes

September 5, 2024 | CalMatters

California has allocated more than $20 billion to alleviate the state’s homelessness crisis since Gavin Newsom became governor in 2019, but there’s precious little data on how the money was spent and what effect it’s had, other than the number of unhoused people has continued to climb.

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Unions

Hotel Workers, Including Some in San Diego, Continue Nationwide Strike for Higher Wages

September 2, 2024 | Times of San Diego

Dozens of hotels faced disruptions during Monday’s busy Labor Day public holiday as over 10,000 workers, including some in San Diego County, went on strike after contract talks stalled, employees and the Unite Here union said.

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Unions

Union attacks on the hotel industry have left Los Angeles in poor shape for 2028 Olympics

September 2, 2024 | Daily Bulletin

Los Angeles’ “hot labor summer” of 2023 is a case of “the means don’t justify the ends.” A recent rosy media spot check on the health of Los Angeles hotels after last year’s rolling strikes doesn’t paint an accurate picture.

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Unions

Hotel workers at Westin Long Beach OK new contract

September 1, 2024 | Press Telegram

Hotel workers at the Westin Long Beach have unanimously ratified a new contract that will increase their pay by 60% over the next three and a half years, union officials said.

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Crime / Homelessness

Federal judge frustrated over missing data on LA homeless spending

August 28, 2024 | ABC 7 Los Angeles

A federal judge is demanding answers in an ongoing audit of how the city and the county of Los Angeles are spending public funds to solve the homeless crisis.

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