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The Los Angeles Industrial District BID is one of the few organizations working to maintain’s one of densest homeless districts in the country. Harrison Hill, USA TODAY CONNECTTWEETLINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMORE STORY HIGHLIGHTS Senior homelessness is projected to nearly triple nationally by 2030, to 106,000 people. The city of Santa Monica has created a first-of-its-kind subsidy program to support low-income seniors in danger of homelessness or displacement. California’s Master Plan for Aging is scheduled to be completed by October 2020. In 2013, Madlynn Johnson had her own apartment and a steady job. A car accident changed…

California passed a law slated to give the state’s college athletes the ability to make money off their own names, images, and likenesses, and other states are considering doing the same. Spencer put together some questions you might share about this development, and former — but not current, which we cannot stress enough — lawyer Ryan provided some answers. As the state of affairs changes, we’ll update this with new questions and new answers. In your most lawyerly voice: What does this mean? (No, we’re not paying you for consult, because you…

Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, right, and AB 5 proponents celebrate as Gov. Gavin Newsom signs the legislation, which forces companies to treat roughly 1 million contract workers as employees under California law. IN SUMMARY Turning paper victories into a meaningful labor movement with more private-sector members could take work, even in pro-labor California. Last summer, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled public sector unions couldn’t compel fees from nonunion workers, the talk was that organized labor had been hit hard, was facing a mass exodus, and was playing defense even in pro-labor California. Talk…

A bus stop in San Francisco. The worst descriptions of homelessness in the city frequently come from its archliberal politicians.CreditCreditJason Henry for The New York Times By Conor Dougherty SAN FRANCISCO — Open-air heroin use. Sidewalks smeared in human feces. Blocklong homeless camps and people with severe mental illnesses wading through traffic in socks and hospital clothes. You would be forgiven if you thought that those descriptions of California’s urban ills came from the mouth of the state’s biggest detractor, President Trump. After all, as the president jetted off to the…