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LA’s $13M COVID relief funds could go to building upgrades, not pandemic care

5 days ago | lapublicpress.org | Larry Buhl

This article was published in collaboration with The Sick Times. Long COVID and COVID-19 safety advocates are criticizing the Los Angeles City Council for its decision last month to reallocate more than $13 million in unspent federal pandemic relief funds to what they characterize as unrelated projects. And they point out that, with infections still occurring daily and potentially hundreds of thousands of Angelinos debilitated with long COVID, now is not the time to cut back on resources.
Santa Monica's elite are using an airport to block affordable housing

6 days ago | lapublicpress.org | Jack Ross

This article was produced by the nonprofit journalism publications Capital & Main and KCRW. It is co-published here with permission. In the neighborhoods surrounding the Santa Monica Airport, homeowners know little peace. Every few minutes, the whine of a jet engine intrudes on the suburban soundscape. But relief is coming. In 2017, locals won a more than seven-decade fight to close the airport. It is scheduled to shutter once and for all on Dec. 31, 2028.
These LA undocumented drivers helped build Uber and Lyft. Now they’re being left behind

1 week ago | lapublicpress.org | Vanessa Arredondo

Pedro was dropping off a rideshare passenger in Altadena in 2019, when he received a notification from Uber that this would be his last job with the company unless he could verify his personal information through documentation like a Social Security number. Having arrived in the United States at age 17 without authorization, Pedro closed the app and set course for home in the San Fernando Valley, knowing it would be the last time he’d work for the rideshare app.
Unhoused residents demand LA Councilmember Hernandez provide trash cans instead of sweeps

1 week 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.
$35M boost for LA Exide cleanup won't cover all contaminated homes

1 week ago | lapublicpress.org | Alfredo Santana

The cleanup of front and back yards at residential properties fouled with lead released by the former Exide Technologies plant would get a $35 million allocation if California legislators approve Gov. Gavin Newsom’s revised budget proposal for the next fiscal year. But that won’t be enough to cover all the remaining remediation that still needs to be conducted in communities around Exide.
From Hollywood to East LA, California's food bank funding cuts will hit local neighborhoods

2 weeks ago | lapublicpress.org | Mark Kreidler

This article was produced by the nonprofit journalism publication Capital & Main. It is co-published here with permission. The temperature was nearing 90 degrees in Woodland, California, on Monday afternoon, but in the parking lot of the Home Church, the mission continued. Undeterred by the high sun and cloudless sky, area residents queued up dozens deep, waiting for the food distribution to begin.
How queer communities are rising from the ashes of LA's worst fires

2 weeks ago | lapublicpress.org | Nico Lang

Four months after losing his house in the Eaton Fire, Nic Arnzen still feels like he might go home. The last time he saw his Altadena property was on January 7, when he returned briefly to retrieve his son’s pet rabbit. His husband and family had already evacuated, but not yet knowing how serious the situation would become, Arnzen initially left the bunny behind, fearing that any unnecessary displacement might cause the animal to suffer cardiac arrest.
LA just raised hotel worker wages to $30/hour. Here's what that means for workers and the industry

2 weeks ago | lapublicpress.org | Mark Kreidler

This article was produced by the nonprofit journalism publication Capital & Main. It is co-published here with permission. In the months preceding the Los Angeles City Council’s vote to gradually improve tourism industry workers’ wages to $30 an hour, the hotel and developer lobbies threw everything they had into pushing one apocalyptic message: Paying higher wages would prompt the businesses to retrench, downsize operations and abandon projects in and around the city. They brought the heat.
LAPD officers who used force will now have up to 72 hours to avoid an interview

2 weeks ago | lapublicpress.org | Joey Scott

Investigators with the Los Angeles Police Department can now delay interviewing officers involved in use-of-force investigations for up to 72 hours after the incident. The commission overseeing the department approved a six-month pilot to test the new policy.
Proposed Medicaid cuts would impact 2 million Angelenos. Here’s what that means for LA

2 weeks ago | lapublicpress.org | Larry Buhl

The proposed slashing of Medicaid, if enacted by Congress, would not only have devastating consequences for Los Angeles residents kicked off coverage. It would have a dangerous ripple effect throughout the healthcare industry, resulting in fewer providers, reduction in services and longer wait times for patients. These cuts could also seriously damage LA’s economy.