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After starting a homeless court, building up its shelter, housing and outreach services, the South Bay city of Redondo Beach has reached the point where more people are getting shelter and housing ...
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.
On June 6, hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Charles White Park in Altadena to protest the murder of George Floyd and other acts of police brutality. [4] The protest was organized by the Altadena-based grassroots organization My Tribe Rise, which aims to feed the homeless and contribute to various communities throughout Southern California.
8% of homeless people surveyed in that district were under the age of 18, 4% were 18–24, 15% 25–34, 23% 35–44, 22% 45–54, 20% 55–66, and 9% 65 or older. Among the homeless surveyed were 43 families with children. In addition there were 28 "unaccompanied children." 42.9% said that they were experiencing homelessness for the first time
“I’m sick of watching my friends I’ve known at the park die on me,” said Wendy Coady, who described herself as the “queen” of Chapin Park, where people living homeless often gather.
The group's territorialism of the Lunada Bay public beach has raised concerns in the legal and surfing worlds. Although the group had non-violent beginnings in the 1960s as a self-described surfing "family" or fraternity , the Bay Boys are often considered a gang and use public harassment and intimidation as forms of confrontation and bullying.
It was 2022 when Jeryn Holdren, her 5-year-old son, mother and two dogs became homeless. For about a year, she had been renting a $1,100-a-month home in Cleveland, Tennessee.
A recent survey by the University of San Francisco’s Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative found about two-thirds of homeless people in California have a mental health disorder, but only ...