December 12, 2023

The inside of one of several properties managed by Norris Jones and Dejon Dixon, co-founders of Housing 1BY1, in Los Angeles on Sept. 28, 2023. Dixon and Jones say a Los Angeles-based nonprofit owes them thousands of dollars in unpaid rent for housing people experiencing homelessness. Some of the tenants left properties damaged or stole items before being evicted, according to Jones and Dixon. Photo by Adriana Heldiz, CalMatters

CalMatters en Español

Una organización de Los Ángeles ayudó a albergar a cientos de personas sin hogar pero muchos fueron desplazados. ¿Qué salió mal?

Read this story in English. Para que conste: Hemos actualizado el título de este artículo para reflejar mejor lo que les sucedió a los participantes desplazados en el programa de realojamiento rápido HOPICS. Usamos los términos “desalojo” y “desalojado” en el artículo y en un boletín informativo del 12 de diciembre de 2023 según el entendimiento […]

By Byrhonda Lyons and Jeanne Kuang • December 12, 2023

Homelessness

An L.A. nonprofit helped house hundreds of homeless people. Then many were forced out. What went wrong?

The L.A. nonprofit HOPICS got $140 million in public funds to house the homeless, but it failed to pay rent and some of its clients wound up back on the streets.

By Byrhonda Lyons and Jeanne Kuang • December 12, 2023

A security guard attempts to seize a Palestinian flag from protesters calling for a ceasefire of Israeli bombing in Gaza at the California Democratic Convention in Sacramento on Nov. 18, 2023. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters

Commentary

How the Israel-Hamas war is dividing California’s Democrats and academics

The ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza is having a divisive impact on Democratic politics and in academia and California is a forum for the debates.

By Dan Walters • December 12, 2023