Joel Grover

Aug 9, 2024 | telemundo52.com | Joel Grover

Si bien la alcaldesa de Los Ángeles, Karen Bass, dice que espera reducir drásticamente el número de personas sin hogar para cuando la ciudad sea la sede de los Juegos Olímpicos de 2028, podría haber alrededor de 30,000 personas sin hogar en las calles para entonces, según una investigación del I-Team de la estación hermana NBC4. “Sería terrible si ese fuera el caso, pero quiero que sepan que vamos a hacer todo lo posible para asegurarnos de que no sea así”, dijo Bass.

Aug 5, 2024 | telemundo52.com | Joel Grover

En un típico fin de semana de verano, el tráfico es denso en las calles que conducen al mundialmente famoso letrero de Hollywood, y los residentes temen que los turistas que vengan a los Juegos Olímpicos de 2028 abrumen la zona y provoquen un gran incendio. “Tal como están las cosas ahora, no sobreviviríamos a los Juegos Olímpicos”, dice Kim Kevorkian, residente desde hace mucho tiempo del cercano barrio de Lake Hollywood.

May 16, 2024 | nbclosangeles.com | Joel Grover

A record number of streetlights are out across Los Angeles, the NBC4 I-Team has found, and some blocks in commercial and residential areas are now completely dark. “This is a public safety issue,” said Estela Lopez, who runs the Downtown LA Industrial District, where she says 40 percent of the streetlights are out. "These dark streets are perfect, G-d forbid, to attack someone or to rob someone,” Lopez told the I-Team as she drove down pitch-dark streets around downtown LA.

May 9, 2024 | nbclosangeles.com | Joel Grover

Just before 10 one recent morning, an LA neighborhood was rocked by loud explosions that residents say sounded like bombs going off. "There were two huge explosions, and when I looked out my apartment window I saw plumes of black smoke," said Jeanne Rice, who lives around the corner from a homeless encampment at Wilton Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard. Those plumes of smoke and fire were coming from a homeless tent that had exploded into a ball of fire, destroying the tent and other tents around it.

Apr 26, 2024 | nbcsandiego.com | Joel Grover

The block of El Centro Avenue at the Hollywood Walk of Fame remains free of tents, nine months after LA's Inside Safe program dismantled an encampment there and offered motel rooms to the unhoused. But just a block away from that success story several new encampments have sprung up since then. Homeless people in the area interviewed by the NBC4 I-Team say LAPD officers sometimes shuffle them from one block to another, and no one has offered them housing.