Trial started today. It is way past time for the VA to step up and provide housing for the thousands of homeless #veterans living on the streets of Los Angeles. #Vets #LAnews latimes.com/california/sto…

Pleased to see the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors stating that being #homeless is not a crime and should not be punished as such. Housing and services end homelessness, not jails and arrests. Lindsey P. Horvath Hilda Solis Holly J. Mitchell Janice Hahn Supervisor Kathryn Barger file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/bos/s…

Locking up #landlords for behaving badly? Unfortunately, that is sometimes what it takes to force them to bring their buildings up to code. #tenantrights nytimes.com/2024/08/06/nyr…

Too many of our elders are dying alone on the streets of Los Angeles. We can be better than this. We must be better than this. #homelessness #homeless theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

Interesting new study on #rentcontrol finds: “rent control is associated with statistically significant increases in units affordable to extremely low-income households...” urban.org/research/publi…

Mold, cockroaches & rats are just the beginning — tenants living in slum conditions are being illegally forced out of their homes, but ICLC is helping them fight back. #TenantRights #housingnews Read the breaking Los Angeles Times article by PE below. latimes.com/california/sto…

Judge Carter tours the over-300-acre VA Campus in West LA in connection with our ongoing case. #vets #veterans #housingnews ktla.com/news/local-new…

Finally! This morning, the VA was ordered to provide 750 temporary supportive units and 1,800 units of permanent supportive housing on the West LA VA campus. Thanks to our partners at Public Counsel Robins Kaplan LLP and Brown, Goldstein & Levy #vets #Veteran latimes.com/california/sto…

#homelesscount numbers are now in for 32 of CA's 58 counties and show an overall increase of about 3%. For all their challenges and limitations, these annual point-in-time counts remain our most accurate estimate of sheltered and unsheltered #homelessness calmatters.org/housing/homele…

BREAKING: InnerCityLawCenter, Cohen Milstein and Handley Farah & Anderson have filed a historic number of complaints on behalf of Housing Rights Initiative (HRI) against CA landlords for illegal, widespread #Section8 discrimination. #housingnews #HousingPolicy #HousingJustice latimes.com/california/sto…

Refusing to rent to Housing Choice Voucher holders is illegal, it is making our homeless crisis worse, and it must stop. Yesterday, we filed 112 complaints with the CA Civil Rights Department, documenting housing discrimination by 203 landlords. #section8 latimes.com/california/sto…

Love this quote: “There is no medicine as powerful as housing.” Last year an average of five people died while #homeless every day in Los Angeles. The most common age was 55-60 years old. Surely we are better than this. healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.13…

Rather than appealing the court's ruling, the VA ought to just build the damn housing. 2,991 #veterans are #homeless in LA County every night. Enough with the games. It's time to step up and solve the problem. latimes.com/california/sto…

"The California legislature must do more than simply prepare to sue the federal government," says ICLC CEO Adam Murray in his latest @LADailyJournal op-ed explaining how CA can prepare for big #policy changes under a new presidential administration. tinyurl.com/2fn2avzt

"Inner City Law Center Litigation Director David Smith said the conditions in this building are among the worst of those they represent." #slumlord #slumhousing #legalaid #tenantrights tinyurl.com/mr3y4dkv

Officer detains unhoused woman in labor for "unlawfully camping". She replies that she has no home, nowhere else to go. She gave birth that same day. This is the natural extension of the cruelty inherent in the Supreme Court’s decision in Grants Pass. youtube.com/watch?t=43&v=I…

If you need legal assistance related to the #fires, call the Disaster Legal Assistance Collaborative hotline at 800-834-5001. Thanks to Community Legal Aid SoCal for connecting folks w/ the various legal organizations serving those impacted by the fires, including InnerCityLawCenter