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1 month ago | 
lapublicpress.org | Elizabeth Chou |Elizabeth ChouReporter
The Los Angeles County Sheriff Department’s budget would get a $9.5 million boost – but the Department of Health Services’s budget would shrink by about $165 million – under a $47.9 billion spending plan advanced Tuesday by the LA County Board of Supervisors. The county’s recommended budget reflects approximately $89 million in cuts and is moving forward as officials forecast major fiscal challenges in the next year.
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1 month ago | 
lapublicpress.org | Elizabeth Chou |Elizabeth ChouReporter
Los Angeles leaders responding to scathing audit findings have renewed calls to gut or dismantle a joint authority that’s been tasked with responding to homelessness for the last 30 years. County and city officials will take up proposals this week aimed at revamping how homeless services are delivered, amid criticisms over the ability of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority to handle those services.
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2 months ago | 
lapublicpress.org | Elizabeth Chou |Elizabeth ChouReporter
Marissa Roy, an attorney in State Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office, has launched a challenge against Los Angeles City Attorney Hydee Feldstein-Soto, filing paperwork this month to begin fundraising for the 2026 election. “In this moment, we need a city attorney who stands for the people,” said Roy, who currently prosecutes violations of housing law in Bonta’s office.
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2 months ago | 
lapublicpress.org | Elizabeth Chou |Elizabeth ChouReporter
LA is broke, and for many Angelenos, the cracks are evident. Twenty-three-year-old Andres Perkins says there is an intersection in Reseda’s business district that floods every year when it rains, and there are broken sidewalks everywhere. It’s been like this for years, Perkins said.
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2 months ago | 
lapublicpress.org | Elizabeth Chou |Elizabeth ChouReporter
Los Angeles County residents will have a short runway to access a new law designed to help renters struggling to pay rent after January’s fires. To take advantage of the new law, qualifying renters who missed February rent payments must notify their landlords by today, March 4. Those who estimate that they won’t be able to pay their March rent have until Friday to notify their landlords.
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2 months ago | 
lapublicpress.org | Elizabeth Chou |Elizabeth ChouReporter
The day an atmospheric river dumped almost three inches of rain on downtown Los Angeles earlier this month was also the day that the city of LA decided to uproot a longstanding encampment of unhoused neighbors in Echo Park. As they monitored the weather, members of Echo Park Mutual Aid, which conducts weekly outreach to the encampment, provided tarps to help people fortify their structures, but also noted that residents there were prepared for the storm.
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2 months ago | 
lapublicpress.org | Elizabeth Chou |Elizabeth ChouReporter
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to back a measure to help some tenants across the county who are facing eviction after the Palisades and Eaton fires The resolution, which passed 4-0, with Supervisor Kathryn Barger abstaining, would temporarily protect renters from being evicted if they can’t make rent payments because they lost work from the fires.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
lapublicpress.org | Elizabeth Chou |Elizabeth ChouReporter
The latest effort to adopt protections for renters in the city of Los Angeles in the wake of January’s fires failed Friday when the City Council voted against drafting legal language to restrict landlords from kicking such tenants out of their homes. The proposal, which would have temporarily prohibited evictions of people facing economic hardship due to the fires, failed to get the eight votes needed to pass on Friday.
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Feb 6, 2025 | 
lapublicpress.org | Elizabeth Chou |Elizabeth ChouReporter
On Jan. 7, as Santa Ana winds whipped across Los Angeles, Wendy Lopez was inside a downtown courthouse, trying to find out if her landlord had officially filed an eviction notice to boot her and her family from their West Adams apartment. Lopez felt at home at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse. She knew the women at Window No. 7 of the records department. Only a few years ago, she’d been their coworker, when she was employed in the court’s cafeteria and as a court cleaner.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
lapublicpress.org | Elizabeth Chou |Elizabeth ChouReporter
The wildfires that tore through Pacific Palisades and Altadena are expected to intensify the housing crisis in Los Angeles. Renters are likely to feel the impacts, with soaring rental prices after the Lahaina, Maui wildfire in 2023 acting as a cautionary tale for LA.
