
Elizabeth Chou
Reporter at Los Angeles Public Press
🦋@reporterliz.bsky.social | @lapublicpress's Public Commons reporter | ✉️ [email protected] | Formerly @ladailynews, CNS and @egpnews
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1 month ago |
lapublicpress.org | Elizabeth Chou
Historic Filipinotown residents delivered a letter to Los Angeles City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez on Wednesday demanding regular trash pick-ups and more help to find local housing after at least two recent city sweeps at their encampment led to valuable belongings getting taken or trashed.
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1 month ago |
lapublicpress.org | Elizabeth Chou
On April 18, just three days before releasing a proposed budget calling for the layoffs of more than 1,600 city workers, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass attended a Black Lives Matter LA (BLM-LA) presentation at its Center for Black Power in Leimert Park. BLM-LA was presenting the results of its annual budget survey that asks Los Angeles residents how they want the city to spend its money.
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1 month ago |
lapublicpress.org | Elizabeth Chou
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says residents of RVs are frequently living in “unsafe and unlivable” conditions due to “vanlords” who buy RVs at tow yard auctions, then rent them to people who live on the streets. She’s now sponsoring a state bill that would allow the city to destroy more vehicles before going to auction in an effort to get them off the street.
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1 month ago |
lapublicpress.org | Elizabeth Chou
Broken street lights could take up to two years to get fixed. Tree-trimming that gets done every 17 years could become more infrequent. Beloved arts and culture programming could disappear. That’s the grim outlook for LA under a proposed spending plan released by LA Mayor Karen Bass last week. Department officials are sounding the alarm to LA leaders on the potential impacts of deep service cuts and layoffs as they weigh in on the budget over the next few weeks.
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2 months ago |
lapublicpress.org | Elizabeth Chou
In a big city, an apartment building can feel like a small village. On Mohawk Street in Echo Park, residents of one such village came together two years ago to fight off one landlord’s attempts to evict and displace them. And they did something that doesn’t happen very often. They ended up winning protections for themselves — and all renters in Los Angeles.
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