The hearing was ordered by a federal judge overseeing a settlement in a lawsuit brought against the city by the L.A. Alliance ...

LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- A coalition of labor unions and other organizations Thursday announced a ballot measure initiative to create a tax on multi-million dollar property sales to fund solutions to ...

For the first time since Los Angeles began tracking homelessness, the number of unhoused Angelenos has fallen for two ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- There's a new plan in Los Angeles to combat the homeless crisis, and it's controlled by U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter. The city and county have to figure out how to ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom has made reducing the homelessness crisis in California a top priority, saying the scale of the state’s ...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Wednesday lifted her declaration of a local emergency on homelessness, saying that while the crisis persists, the city now has the tools in place to continue urgent ...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass signed an executive directive Friday to address one of the urgent issues of her campaign. Bass began her first day in office Monday by declaring a state of emergency to ...

A homeless man's three-story treehouse crafted from scrap materials near downtown Los Angeles has been torn down by the city—but this setback has not deterred the enterprising architect. The elevated ...

Walk through any major American city today and you'll notice something troubling. Encampments sprawl across sidewalks, people ...

San Francisco Mayor London Breed has launched a new crackdown on people sleeping outside in a campaign to clear the sidewalks of homeless encampments that have come to define the city. Her four ...

Austin Turner is a web producer at CBS News Los Angeles. An Inland Empire native, Austin earned a degree in journalism from San Jose State University in 2020. Before joining CBS News in 2025, he ...