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California city no longer eligible to receive state housing and homelessness funds
The city of Norwalk is no longer eligible to receive state housing and homelessness funds after the state Department of Housing and Community Development revoked its compliance with the housing element law. Additionally, the city can no longer deny certain affordable housing projects, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom. The announcement comes weeks after the […]
Southern California hospital seeks help identifying injured patients
A local hospital needs help identifying two patients who were found injured in Los Angeles County. The patients are described as a woman around 60 years old and a man between 30 to 40 years old, according to the St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood. Hospital staff are hoping to locate their family members. The […]
RV Camps Fill Neighborhoods With Homeless - City Looks To Tow Them Off - Where Will These People Go?
Although California announced previously in the year that they were going to clear out homeless encampments, there proposed an obvious question. “Where are these people going to go?”
Massive bear in Southern California claws, wiggles out from under home
Yet another bear has taken up temporary residence under a home in the San Gabriel Mountain community of Monrovia. The homeowners, Mark Chou and Mark Lanza, were watching a horror movie when all of a sudden, a real 250-pound creature started making a commotion under their home. “We were like, ‘Okay, something is […]
As affordable housing disappears, states scramble to shore up the losses
For more than two decades, the low rent on Marina Maalouf’s apartment in a blocky affordable housing development in Los Angeles’ Chinatown was a saving grace for her family, including a granddaughter who has autism.But that grace had an expiration date. For Maalouf and her family it arrived in 2020.The landlord, no longer legally obligated to keep the building affordable, hiked rent from $1,100 to $2,660 in 2021 — out of reach for Maalouf and her family. Maalouf's nights are haunted by fears her yearslong eviction battle will end in sleeping bags on a friend's floor or worse.While...
Residents of landslide-stricken city in California to get financial help
As much as $10,000 will be distributed to some residents of a peninsula on the edge of Los Angeles where worsening landslides have damaged homes and led to utility shutoffs. The Rancho Palos Verdes City Council on Tuesday allocated $2.8 million — more than half of a $5 million grant from LA County — for direct relief to families in the Portuguese Bend neighborhood facing landslide damage or a loss of power and gas services, the Los Angeles Times reported. “These emergency grants will deliver long-overdue immediate assistance to those whose lives have been upended by land movement...
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