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State Assembly committee hears about entertainment industry

Friday, March 6, 2020

The California State Assembly’s Select Committee on Jobs & Innovation in the San Fernando Valley held its first hearing of 2020 on the state of L.A.’s entertainment industry at the American Federation of Musicians Local 47 headquarters in Burbank.

Hosted by 45th District (West SFV) Democrat Jesse Gabriel and attended by fellow members of the area delegation Laura Friedman (D District 43 – Glendale), Adrin Nazarian (D District 47 – South/Central SFV) and Luz Rivas (D District 39 – Arleta), the two-hour listening session heard from representatives of the California Film Commission, local film office FilmLA, performers union SAG-AFTRA, crafts union IATSE, Motion Picture Association (the major studios’ trade group) and others.

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Preventing homelessness key to solving the current crisis

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

As California grapples with an unprecedented homelessness crisis, there has been much discussion about helping those currently on the streets, with far less focus on how we can prevent homelessness in the first place.

Yet prevention is clearly a key piece of the puzzle, particularly as the number of Californians slipping into homelessness each year continues to outpace local efforts to provide shelter. According to the 2019 homeless count, officials in Los Angeles County housed more than 21,000 people in 2018, yet homelessness still increased 12 percent countywide. If we’re serious about addressing this crisis, preventing homelessness must be at the top of our agenda.

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Editorial: L.A. needs to preserve affordable housing. Eminent domain isn’t the way to do it

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

These are desperate times for Los Angeles.

Even as the city, county and state have been pouring money into housing and services, the number of people living on the street has gone steadily up. More and more of them are losing their housing — often for the first time — because of unaffordable rents and evictions.

But are we ready for desperate measures?