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Macarthur Park near Downtown Los Angeles. There are many ongoing efforts to expand park accessibility in LA. Many former junkyards or abandoned lands are being converted into parks. [6] For example, Estrella Park in South Los Angeles, formerly an auto-repair junkyard, was created by the California Community Foundation and local schoolchildren ...
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) is a British child protection charity founded as the Liverpool Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (LSPCC) by Thomas Agnew on 19 April 1883. The NSPCC lobbies the government on issues relating to child welfare, and creates child abuse public awareness campaigns.
Permanent, federally funded housing came into being in the United States as a part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Title II, Section 202 of the National Industrial Recovery Act, passed June 16, 1933, directed the Public Works Administration (PWA) to develop a program for the "construction, reconstruction, alteration, or repair under public regulation or control of low-cost housing and slum ...
Transitioning from caring for a 4-year-old to an infant or toddler isn't necessarily a smooth one, said Lisa Wilkin, executive director of the Child Development Consortium of Los Angeles, which ...
California's housing crisis has been a key factor in a mass departure of people from the state. Some 500,000 more Californians left in a recent two-year period than arrived.
Officials in one California county are hoping a tiny change can help address the area's housing crisis. In most of the state, permanently living in a tiny home on wheels is illegal.
Counties are organized into three SAWS consortia (joint powers authorities): C-IV (Consortium-IV), WCDS , and Los Angeles County's LEADER Replacement System (LRS). [ 17 ] LRS began deployment on February 23, 2016 and was designed and developed in collaboration with C-IV to eventually consolidate LRS and C4Yourself into a single system. [ 18 ]
Airbnb, Lyft and Uber are helping those displaced by the devastating wildfires in Southern California, which have already destroyed almost 2,000 buildings and forced 130,000 people to evacuate.