Tag: Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority
Homeless count calculated for Chronicle area
Ever since the 2024 homeless count was conducted in the Greater Wilshire community on the evening of Jan. 25, 2024, the Larchmont Chronicle has been working to find out how our area fared. After many months of inquiring, we obtained the raw, point-in-time census data from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA). We overlaid […]
Finding homes, shelter is key to solution, says councilmember
•Street safety is also on Yaroslavsky’s agenda The Chronicle recently spoke with CD5 Councilwoman Katy Young Yaroslavsky about her first eight months in office. Here are excerpts from that interview. Yaroslavsky told us that she and her team have been hard at work on both homelessness and street safety. The councilwoman said that Mayor Bass’ […]
Council District 5 Choices: Katy Yaroslavsky or Sam Yebri
Two candidates, both of them lawyers, are running against each other in the race for the City Council District 5 seat. The majority of this newspaper’s coverage area, formerly all within Council District Four (for more than 70 years), now is in CD 5 due to the 2021 redistricting. This Westside CD5 district includes Bel […]
It took a village, but Giorgio is finally getting some help
Driving down Larchmont Boulevard, I can’t help but glance in the direction of the newsstand and Peet’s Coffee, places where unhoused Larchmont regular Giorgio used to stand with his shopping cart, waiting for gifts of money, food and Advil. However, as the Larchmont Chronicle reported in the May 2022 issue, the Los Angeles County Department […]