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By Elizabeth Chou | [email protected] | Daily News PUBLISHED: March 23, 2018 at 12:13 pm | UPDATED: March 23, 2018 at 4:03 pm The Los Angeles City Council voted Friday to develop an “emergency” plan aimed at immediately sheltering all of the city’s homeless individuals who are still living out in the open, including those in tents, mobile homes and on sidewalks. At last count, more than 25,000 of the city’s 34,000 homeless individuals are unsheltered. The effort comes as the council this week also pledged to build 222 units of permanent housing for homeless individuals in each of the city’s 15 council districts by 2020. But while that happens, city leaders say temporary shelters are also needed to more quickly put roofs over people’s heads. And they want to do it by the end of the year. RELATED STORY: For LA’s homeless, winter shelters offer hope – until they close The council approved a motion Friday requesting that the countywide … [Read more...] about Amid homeless ‘emergency,’ LA seeks to shelter every person on street by end of the year

By City News Service | PUBLISHED: March 6, 2018 at 1:45 pm | UPDATED: March 6, 2018 at 4:39 pm LOS ANGELES — In response to an outbreak of hepatitis A, the Los Angeles City Council moved forward Tuesday with a plan to offer vaccinations against the disease to city employees who come into regular contact with homeless people. A motion approved on a 12-0 vote directs the city’s Personnel Department to report on which classifications of municipal employees should be vaccinated against hepatitis A, and notes that the disease poses a significant health risk to the homeless and those who come into regular contact with them, including those who work in the police and fire departments. Los Angeles County health officials declared an official outbreak of hepatitis A last September after cases of the disease spiked in Los Angeles, San Diego and Santa Cruz. Hepatitis A is a highly contagious liver disease that can spread easily through homeless populations because it thrives in … [Read more...] about LA to offer hepatitis A vaccine to city employees who work with homeless

By Ryan Carter | [email protected] | Daily News PUBLISHED: March 26, 2018 at 1:43 pm | UPDATED: March 26, 2018 at 7:36 pm With a homeless crisis continuing to blanket Los Angeles County, its leaders on Tuesday are poised to keep open a 24-hour shelter long beyond the winter for a growing population of people without homes. A motion by county supervisors Kathryn Barger and Mark Ridley-Thomas seeks to declare a “shelter crisis” in the Antelope Valley and to use voter-approved Measure H funds to keep the newly converted shelter operating through much of the year. RELATED STORY: As winter grips the Antelope Valley, a rare 24-hour homeless shelter opens In their motion, the supervisors said that “a significant number of persons within the Antelope Valley are without the ability to obtain shelter, resulting in a threat to their health and safety.” FROM THE MOTION: “Instruct the Director of the Homeless Initiative to work with Los AngelesHomeless … [Read more...] about Amid a ‘crisis,’ a vital LA County homeless shelter must stay open, leaders say

By Jordan Graham | [email protected], Roxana Kopetman | [email protected] and Tomoya Shimura | [email protected] | Orange County RegisterPUBLISHED: March 27, 2018 at 10:27 am | UPDATED: March 27, 2018 at 8:53 pm Homeless man Michael “MJ” Diehl, center, laughs as he visits with people protesting the Orange County Board of Supervisors’ homeless plan in Santa Ana on Tuesday, Mar 27, 2018. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)Hundreds of people gather outside the Board of Supervisors meeting at the Hall of Administration in Santa Ana on Tuesday, March 27. Orange County supervisors will decide Tuesday whether to rescind their recent vote that could site emergency homeless shelters in Irvine, Huntington Beach, and Laguna Niguel. Many immigration advocates are protesting Supervisor Shawn Nelson’s call to join the DOJ in suing CA about its Sanctuary State law. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)Jodie Mosley, of Anaheim, holds up her … [Read more...] about Hundreds protest homeless, sanctuary law outside Orange County Board of Supervisors meeting