Los Angeles experienced its first wide-scale homelessness during two periods of national upheaval — the Great Depression and the housing crunch after World War II. In both cases, the crises abated. In ...

In this Feb. 4, 2021, file photo, Jeff Page, right, also known as General Jeff, a homelessness activist and leader in the Downtown Los Angeles Skid Row Neighborhood Council, walks with U.S. District ...

It has been symbolically observed every year since 1990 on the first day of winter to remember the thousands of unhoused ...

In Los Angeles, two events are scheduled Sunday to mark National Homeless Persons' Memorial Day, honoring the lives of Southland residents who died while unhoused in 2025.

As a teenager in the late 1970s, Steve Richardson was sweeping and stocking shelves at a toy store on the edge of L.A.’s Skid Row when he noticed the first signs of a monumental change in the city.

One approach to solving a huge problem such as homelessness in Los Angeles County is to tackle it piece-by-piece, one unhoused group at a time. That’s the thinking expressed by the Los Angeles County ...