Homeless Crisis

Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority officials and volunteers will conduct this year's homeless count starting Tuesday, focusing on the San Gabriel and San Fernando valleys.

Hospital giant Kaiser Permanente and insurer Blue Shield of California on Friday pledged $45 million to a new state fund aimed at getting people off the streets.

The Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday to turn a vacant Los Angeles County clinic in San Pedro into a 24-hour emergency shelter for homeless individuals, many of whom are already camped nearby.

Gov. Gavin Newsom is scheduled to visit staff and residents at a board and care home in the Harvard Heights section of Los Angeles Tuesday on the second day of his weeklong homelessness tour.

A man who witnesses said was clearly on drugs tried to kidnap a little girl from her mother’s arms.

A memorial for a homeless person who recently died on Skid Row turned into a rally, people urging the city to create more housing for individuals living on the streets.

In an exclusive investigation, FOX 11 went undercover to Skid Row, embedding with a Los Angeles County mental health team tasked with helping the most vulnerable on the streets in a system the team and a County Supervisor say is 'broken.'

Police in Ventura are urging residents to say "no" to panhandlers.

Feeding homeless people on public property may become illegal in Lancaster following a decision by the city council to revisit the matter in the coming months following an hours-long meeting Tuesday.

Rose Bowl Stadium was one of the venues around the world that will host “The World’s Big Sleep Out” this weekend. 

The executive director of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority announced Monday he is stepping down at the end of the month.

Nearly 1,200 beds are now available for the homeless across the county. They include 271 Winter Shelter Program beds, 100 additional interim shelter beds as well as an additional 500 beds at five sites within the city and 100 beds at Athens Park supplied by the County of Los Angeles.

Municipal cleanup crews Monday began a third sweep through homeless encampments in the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve in the San Fernando Valley, an area that has long been ripe for wildfires and has been the scene of two recent blazes.

Homeowners who live near homeless encampments in fire prone areas want police to enforce a new ordinance that allows law enforcement to clear homeless out of high risk fire areas during red flag warnings.

Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar proposed expanding the hygiene station in Skid Row and asked for funding for rapid re-housing programs for 150 women facing homelessness.

Saying he is "fed up" with the length of time it takes to build residences for homeless people, Los Angeles City Councilman Joe Buscaino called on Gov. Gavin Newsom Wednesday to declare a state of emergency on the issue.

City cleanup crews swept through homeless encampments in the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve again today, focusing on the Haskell Creek area in the second phase of a multiple-day cleanup effort.

 A Los Angeles City Council committee Wednesday is scheduled to consider a draft ordinance that would give law enforcement the authority to order homeless people out of encampments located in brush areas on high-risk fire days.

Elizabeth Novak packed up her salon and moved out of Sacramento due to the mounting problems from homelessness in the California capital, and told Fox News Monday the issue is “disheartening.”

President Donald Trump took time during a 90-minute rally in Cincinnati on Thursday to slam California for the number of homeless people living on the streets.