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Los Angeles Homelessness

A Permanent Home Just in Time for the Holidays

Downtown Women's Center | Posted 01.27.2013 | Los Angeles
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Downtown Women's Center

Now more than ever, it is important to look to effective models of serving the homeless community and implement them across our urban cities most affected by this issue.

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Is the Federal Government Misdirecting Homelessness Funds?

Joel John Roberts | Posted 01.20.2013 | Impact
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Joel John Roberts

Common sense dictates that the government should invest these funds into communities where homelessness is most acute. But are they doing that? Sadly, no.

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LA Family Housing on Family Homelessness

Mark Horvath | Posted 12.21.2012 | Impact
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Mark Horvath

I support the "Housing First" model, but so often chronic homeless individuals are placed into an apartment without adequate support.

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Living in Gratitude

Greg White | Posted 10.08.2012 | Los Angeles
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Greg White

I always face a conundrum -- do I give a homeless person a dollar to ease their struggle, or does that make them successful as beggars and keep them oppressed?

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Kathleen Miles

PHOTOS: Beautiful New Apartments For Silver Lake's Homeless

HuffingtonPost.com | Kathleen Miles | Posted 03.30.2012 | Los Angeles
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Jamie Hill slept on the street for the first time when she was 12 years old. Over the years, she went from sleeping in motels with her mother to foste...

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Los Angeles Confronts Its Homelessness Reputation

nytimes.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
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At a time when cities across the country have made significant progress over the past decade in reducing the number of homeless, in no small part by b...

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