Greater LA
How to help the most expensive homeless people in Santa Monica
Santa Monica is focused on housing the 37 most expensive homeless people in the city. The effort echoes a program that was working in LA County until the Board of Supervisors shut it down.
By Steve Chiotakis • • 24m ListenSanta Monica is focused on housing the 37 most expensive homeless people in the city. The effort echoes a program that was working in LA County until the Board of Supervisors shut it down. And San Onofre Nuclear Plant is no longer running, but there's still 3.5 million pounds of nuclear waste on the site with nowhere else to go.
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2 storiesHow do you solve the toughest cases of homelessness?
In 2016, the City of Santa Monica created a team of specialists to work full-time on housing one specific subset of the homeless population: people who generate the most 911 calls.
Read the story13 minThe dangerous future of San Onofre’s nuclear waste
Southern California Edison announced this week it will restart transfer operations of nuclear waste at the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant in San Diego County.
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