Skid Row & City Hall
Homelessness and the politics around it. Skid Row and the encampments, the shelter and housing fights, the council votes and the corruption cases, and the charter reform arguments.
Part of Los Angeles
11 moments in this segment.
- - Skid Row, downtown Los Angeles. Los Angeles, 2018.
- - The homelessness crisis on Skid Row. Los Angeles, 2019.
- - COVID-19 field hospital, Convention Center (2020). Los Angeles, 2020.
- - The USNS Mercy arrives in LA (2020). Los Angeles, 2020.
- - Union Rescue Mission, Skid Row (2023). Los Angeles, 2023.
- - The Los Angeles Times cuts its newsroom. KTLA's report on the Los Angeles Times laying off around a quarter of its staff, one of the deepest cuts in the paper's history. The city's paper of record has been central to how Los Angeles has understood itself since the 19th century.
- - Rich and poor in one city. A documentary tracking the distance between Beverly Hills and the city's poorest districts, from tourist Los Angeles to the streets where people live without housing. Inequality is the condition the modern city is most often described by.
- - Charter changes could weaken the controller. CBS Los Angeles reports on proposed charter amendments that would reduce the powers of the elected city controller, the office that audits how the city spends its money. It is one strand of the first serious charter overhaul in decades.
- - A city attorney appointed, not elected. The Charter Reform Commission proposes that the Los Angeles city attorney be appointed rather than elected by voters. Whether the office answers to the electorate or to City Hall is one of the sharper questions in the review.
- - Sixty recommendations for the city charter. The League of Women Voters of Greater Los Angeles hosts a public workshop on the Charter Reform Commission's work, which sent more than sixty recommendations to the City Council after nine months of study. Proposals include expanding the number of council districts and strengthening the Ethics Commission.
- - Rent increases close Eagle Rock shops. NBC4 reports on small businesses in Eagle Rock closing after steep rent increases, some rising from around $1,200 to $3,000. The squeeze on neighbourhood commercial strips is part of the wider cost story running through the city.
