Multimedia reporter
I'm a multimedia reporter, writer and artist based in Los Angeles. My primary beat is housing & justice, but I also write about culture in L.A. as well as ghost towns and dive bars across California. My writing, photos and videos have appeared in L.A. Taco, LAist, The LAnd Magazine, KCET, HyperAllergic.com, InvisiblePeople.tv and RoadTrippers.com.
After months of investigating L.A.'s sanitation sweeps and how they impacted unhoused residents, a reporter faces a last-minute challenge from the mayor's office.
Almost nobody has been moved into permanent supportive housing.
A freelancer's neighborhood walks give rise to a story on LA's failure to maintain hygiene stations.
For 68-year-old Lionel Morales, the experience proved devastating.
Part six of a 20-month long investigation looking into hygiene stations that the City of Los Angeles distributed to homeless encampments.
The city extended the program two months after a L.A. TACO investigation found that vendors failed to service units consistently, despite collecting millions of dollars in payments.
A city program that brought hundreds of hand-washing stations and portable toilets to the doorstep of dozens of encampments during the height of the pandemic comes to an abrupt end.
While vendors watched their market share increase and collected money from the city and federal government, an L.A. TACO analysis found that hundreds of hand-washing stations and porta-potties went days, weeks and in some cases more than a month without being serviced.
This is the second investigative article by Lexis-Olivier Ray that was produced as a project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2020 Data Fellowship.
This is the first investigative article that was produced by Lexis-Olivier Ray as a project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2020 Data Fellowship.
