Housing and Homeslessness

All photos by Lexis-Olivier Ray for L.A. TACO.

Part 2: There Weren't Enough Porta-Potties For The Homeless To Begin With. In October They're Being Pulled

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.

Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Housing and Homeslessness, Community Safety

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Part 1: Garcetti Said That L.A.’s Hand-Washing Stations For The Homeless Were Regularly Refilled, Records Obtained Show Otherwise

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.

Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Health Insurance and Costs, Housing and Homeslessness, Community Safety

An apartment for rent in Central Los Angeles.

‘Completely Worthless’: LA’s Program To Legalize Bootleg Apartments Falls Short

Part Three focuses on a city program designed to bring illegal housing units up to code and give owners a path to legalization — and how it has fallen short of expectations.

Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Housing and Homeslessness, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics

Kim Moore sits on her bed in a small unit of an unpermitted Mid-City apartment complex cited by the city in 2019.

Tenants Feel Stranded As LA Cuts Back On Unpermitted Housing Enforcement During The Pandemic

Part Two explores the dramatic decline in city housing inspections during the pandemic — and what that has meant for tenants struggling to keep a roof over their head

Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Housing and Homeslessness, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics

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Exposed Wires, Bugs, And Eviction Notices: Life In An Unpermitted LA Apartment Complex

The saga of tenants at one dilapidated Mid-City housing complex is emblematic of a citywide problem that got worse during the pandemic.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Housing and Homeslessness, Community Safety

(Photo by M1kha via Creative Commons/Flickr)

Voices from Youth: The Waste of the World: Napa Valley must prioritize the health and personhood of its unhoused

We, the housed, worried about our jobs, food, gas, family, friends, and our future during the pandemic. The homeless did not get a chance to think about any of that.

Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Housing and Homeslessness, Food and Nutrition, Community Safety

The Highways 41/180 interchange in Fresno appears nearly devoid of cars at around noon on Friday, March 27, 2020. Much of the ci

This Week in Fresnoland: We’re looking into transportation needs in Fresno County. We need your help.

This report is part of a larger project led by Danielle Bergstrom and Maria Ortiz-Briones as part of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2021 California Fellowship.

Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Housing and Homeslessness, Community Safety

UCSF nursing professor Amanda Ling spends two days a week at St. Anthony’s Medical Clinic in the Tenderloin.

Building Homes for SF’s Homeless Is Hard. Providing Mental Health Care Is Even Harder

SF is bringing people off the streets, but a shortage of mental health workers to help them stay housed could put all this effort at risk.

Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Mental Health, Housing and Homeslessness

Marta Salinas Cruz, her husband Melvin Zuniga and their two children, Joshua Emanuel and Deborah Arleth, pose for a portrait.

Rent made sheltering-in-place impossible for many of SF’s Latinx immigrants

Rent stress drove SF’s immigrant Latinx community to work during the pandemic.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Housing and Homeslessness, Patient Safety and Ethics

Hoang Nguyen stands in front of his “tiny home” at a San Jose site that gives unhoused people a room of their own

For SF’s Homeless, A Permanent Home Is the Ultimate Goal. The Fight Is How to Get There

In an ideal world, the city could quickly and permanently house thousands. But the real world requires transitional places to give people hope and keep them off the streets. Can SF do it with fresh ideas and smart spending?

Poverty and Class, Housing and Homeslessness, Community Safety