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House your homeless, or else on Apple Podcasts

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By Andy Bales, Ben Oreskes
| Apple Podcasts
28 min Among everything that COVID-19 made worse, there is nothing more dire — or more visible — than its impact on homelessness. Over 66,000 people in Los Angeles County are homeless. It’s an issue that has bedeviled L.A., the land of sunshine and dreams, for decades. Everyone seems to have an idea on how to solve it. None seem to work. Then last month, a federal judge issued an order: House everyone in skid row, the historical epicenter of homelessness in Los Angeles.
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New Orleans officials applaud relatively peaceful Mardi Gras season

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By Della Hasselle, Ben Oreskes
| The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) Verified
New Orleans officials didn’t report any violence or other trouble during Tuesday’s parades. Carnival 2015 was marred by a double homicide along the Uptown parade route Thursday during Muses, the deadliest parade shooting in decades. But New Orleans Police Superintendent Michael Harrison said the season was otherwise relatively peaceful, with authorities arresting 344 people along parade routes from Feb. 6 through the weekend, mostly for public intoxication and disturbing the peace.
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