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How L.A. became homeless crisis epicenter | Los Angeles Times

Clients of a Westlake eviction defense center at the time could no longer find even slum housing, and the numbers on Skid Row sidewalks “just exploded,” said attorney Gary Blasi, who ran the center and is now a professor emeritus at UCLA law school and a leading homelessness legal researcher… By the early 1900s, fully 70% of all arrests by the Los Angeles Police Department were for drunkenness, vagrancy or disorderly conduct, according to Kelly Lytle Hernández, a professor of history at UCLA and author of “City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965.”

A timeline of homelessness in Los Angeles | Los Angeles Times

It is estimated that 162,000 families in Los Angeles, including 50,000 veterans, are living in tents, garages, vehicles and other substandard accommodations, according to a 2021 report by UCLA’s Luskin Center for History and Policy.

Hollywood soundstage operators are reeling | Los Angeles Times

“Stages are critical to being able to do, especially TV, on time and on budget,” said George Huang, a professor of screenwriting at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. “They are the backbone of making movies in Hollywood.”

Fewer people on streets, in shelters after getting help | LAist

Results from the program’s pilot phase are now published. They show that people who enrolled in the prevention program were 71% less likely to end up in homeless shelters or to be found on the streets by outreach teams, compared with those who did not enroll. “That’s a fairly promising early evaluation result,” said Janey Rountree, executive director of the California Policy Lab at UCLA and co-author of the study.

White House crackdown tactics | Los Angeles Times

“It is far too early to say that challenge has been thwarted,” said Ahilan Arulanantham, co-director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law. But Arulanantham argued that city and state officials have demonstrated a lack of leadership in the pace of their response to an urgent crisis.

El Salvador reaps rewards from deportations | New York Times

Ahilan Arulanantham, of the UCLA Center for Immigration Law and Policy, said there was “no question” that Mr. Bukele would want the upgrade. Any government, he said, would “prefer a rating saying it’s safe to travel to.”

This med student found community, support online | USA Today

Sosa is transgender and intersex and a survivor of sexual assault. It’s not uncommon for the community: A 2021 study from the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law found that trans people were over four times more likely to be victims of violent crime.

Can gift cards help unhoused Angelenos quit meth? | LAist

“The one thing that we have to really significantly address stimulant use, based on 30 years of research, is contingency management,” said Thomas Freese, director of UCLA’s Integrated Substance Abuse programs.

When an HIV breakthrough isn’t enough | Bloomberg Opinion

UCLA infectious disease epidemiologist Dvora Joseph Davey says that in 2024, the eight public health clinics in Cape Town — where she is based — saw three infants who were HIV-positive at birth. In the first five months of this year, they’ve already seen three babies born with the infection.

The latest UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report | Spectrum News 1

“When we think about Hollywood and we think about … commercial success, people always point to one film and say ‘that was a flop,’ or they could point to another film and say ‘that was a success.’ So, one of the driving forces behind this report, which, as you said, is in its 12th year now, is to really add some objectivity to the conversation,” said UCLA’s Michael Tran (approx. 21:00 mark). 

Duration of heat waves accelerating | KTLA-TV

A new study warns that climate change will make heat waves not only hotter, but much longer. UCLA researchers say heat wave acceleration will speed up with each fraction of a degree of warming. (Also: KCRW-FM.)