An audit released in October by the Los Angeles City Controller’s office recommended that some homeless projects be reevaluated to see if their budgets can be decreased so that less of the city’s $1.2 billion homeless housing bond is used. Los Angeles City Controller Ron Galperin found that over 1,000 units of housing approved for […]

According to federal data, federal law enforcement operations seized almost $1.9 billion worth of items from suspects nationwide last year, which is a drop from $2.6 billion just three years earlier. In California, Senate Bill 443 (SB 443) went into effect in 2017 and local law enforcement agencies have felt the effects of the slash […]

In late August, Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs provided more details about the city’s plan to provide a guaranteed income for 100 families. Starting next month, there will be 1,000 letters sent to families living in neighborhoods at or below the city’s median income of around $46,000. These letters will invite the families to participate to […]

In 2004, voters passed the Mental Health Services Act (Proposition 63) to help counties pay for the treatment of the mentally ill by taxing high-income residents. The proposition has generated billions of dollars to the counties across the state, but much of it has remained unspent. According to the Los Angeles Times, $1.6 billion was […]

Tech mogul Larry Ellison, the co-founder of computer software giant Oracle Corp., has funded what could be a pioneering cancer research center that will open next April. The Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC will be located at 12414 Exposition Boulevard, near Bundy Drive and near a light-rail stop, in the highly […]

Some great news for fans of Latino-focused films, the city of Coachella will be sponsoring two film festivals this October. The council made the decision in June to award city sponsorship to the Official Latino Film and Arts Festival as well as to Cinema Culturas – 2018 Coachella Valley Film Festival in the Fields. Both […]

According to Reuters, Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs plans to combat poverty with a “no strings” guaranteed basic income of $500 a month for some of its residents. The plan will start in early 2019 and a select group of residents will be provided with a monthly stipend as part of a privately funded 18-month experiment […]

Here is a touching story by Steve Lopez from the Los Angeles Times about a woman named Juana Jauregui who runs a daycare center at her East Los Angeles home and her dedication to children. Most of the kids who go to Jauregui’s daycare speak Spanish at home, but she speaks and reads English to […]

By Luis Alvarado, President of Familias Unidas de California Governor Brown has seen it all before. Severe drought conditions that plagued the state in 1976-1977 looked eerily familiar to the California’s most recent drought. On both occasions, Governor Brown took the initiative to declaring a state of emergency. In 2014, with California experiencing such unpredictable […]

Some sad news has come to light as Los Angeles County’s library system is continuing to face an enormous structural deficit. It turns out that the County of Los Angeles Public Library system’s deficit is set to grow to almost $10.8 million annually by 2022. The system’s current operating deficit is around $1.2 million, and […]