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Activists Issue Sharp Rebuke of Mayor’s City Speech

Jan. 11, 2018 / By Crystal Niebla
Tags: Environment, gentrification, Homeless, Housing, Immigration, mayor, safety, violence

Mayor Robert Garcia hailed the city’s progress in his address Tuesday. But these leaders think he has unfinished business.

Extreme Rent Hike Pushes Longtime Resident Out

Dec. 5, 2017 / By Michael Lozano
Tags: eviction, gentrification, Homeless, seniors

This disabled senior saw his rent increase and you're not going to believe by how much.

Persistent Gentrification in Long Beach Increases Student Homelessness and Debt

Oct. 23, 2017 / By Ben Novotny
Tags: csulb, gentrification, Homeless, students

“They’re working several jobs in order to make ends meet in addition to going to school. They come in hoping that financial aid will cover everything and they find out it will not.”

I Found Out My Long-Lost Friend was Homeless. So We Caught Up…

Jul. 6, 2017 / By Rudy Cardoso-Peraza
Tags: Homeless, Poverty, teen, Youth

"I lost contact with him after high school and was pretty shocked to know a friend of mine was living in the streets."

Ballot Measure Aims to Stem Rising Youth Homelessness in L.A.

Mar. 2, 2017 / By Ben Novotny
Tags: gentrification, Homeless, Housing, Youth

More youth are homeless now because of Los Angeles' rising cost of living. Can Measure H help?

Homeless Customers Complain of Poor Treatment by Downtown Businesses

May. 20, 2016 / By Nayobi Maldonado-Ochoa
Tags: businesses, downtown, Homeless, homelessness

While homeless patrons say all they want is to be treated like other customers, business owners complain of the many challenges they pose.

El Niño Hits Long Beach Homeless Community

Feb. 2, 2016 / By Rudy Cardoso-Peraza and M. Smith
Tags: Homeless, homelessness, Weather

As the storm makes it way through SoCal, it's the people who sleep outside who are suffering the most. We spoke directly to local homeless folks to hear how they were faring.

This Time It Was Me: One Young Person’s Struggle With Homelessness

Jul. 29, 2014 / By Chelcee Bunkley
Tags: Homeless, Poverty, Youth

Ed note: In America, a person is considered to be in poverty if they make under $11,000 a year, meaning most people with minimum wage jobs are in poverty and one in 45 children in the U.S...

Grand Prix May Have Displaced Homeless

Apr. 26, 2013 / By Michael Lozano
Tags: downtown Long Beach, Homeless, homelessness, Long Beach, Police

Dedra Wilson was woken up around 5:40 a.m. on last Thursday morning by Long Beach police...

Snapshots of Homeless Youth in Long Beach

Apr. 19, 2013 / By Michael Lozano
Tags: Homeless, homelessness, Long Beach, Youth

The stereotype of a homeless person is such: an older man, holding a sign, with missing teeth, begging on a street corner...

Homeless Youth Project Releases Statewide Action Plan

Mar. 2, 2013 / By New America Media
Tags: Homeless, homelessness

http://vimeo.com/59177903

New America Media, Video, Valerie Klinker,

Ed. Note: At a Jan. 13 State Capitol press conference hosted by Senator Carol Liu (D-Glendale), the California Research Bureau’s Homeless Youth Project released their statewide action plan entitled “More Than Just a Roof: How California Can End Youth Homelessness.”..

Local Community Leaders React to Mayor’s State of the City

Jan. 18, 2013 / By Patrick Moreno
Tags: community, disabilities, Homeless, Long Beach, mayor

While some community leaders have showed support after Mayor Bob Foster’s optimistic 2013 State of the City, some still have reservations about how firmly he patted his own back and those of city staffers during the speech...