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Celebrating the Taco Lifestyle in Los Angeles, CA

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Lexis-Olivier Ray is an award-winning staff investigative reporter for L.A. TACO known for holding powerful people in Los Angeles accountable and his reporting on Los Angeles culture. As well as an artist and filmmaker. In 2022, the Society of Professional Journalists&#8217; Los Angeles chapter named Ray one of their &#8220;distinguished journalists.&#8221; This year, Ray won a second place Anthem Award in their Health Innovation category for a texting service geared towards the unhoused community and service providers that he launched in 2021 with L.A. TACO and Subtext. Ray was a 2020 USC Center For Health Journalism (CHJ) Data Fellow. As well as a 2022 CHJ Impact Fellow. As a freelancer, Ray has contributed to the L.A. Times, Men&#8217;s Health Magazine, KCET and SFGATE.

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Lexis-Olivier Ray

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Homelessness

Homelessness Is Rising Slower Than It Did In Previous Years But How Accurate Is The Data?

Lisa Kwon is a writer born, raised, and currently living in Koreatown. She will talk your ear off about Korean coffee culture and the dreadful effects of Los Angeles’ palm tree fetishism.

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Little Tokyo’s Oldest Mochi Shop Wanted Homeless Swept, and Now Public Is Fenced Off Too

One of L.A. TACO&#8217;s co-founders, Hadley Tomicki is a writer and editor on food, travel, and culture whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, UrbanDaddy, High Times, and many other places.

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Hadley Tomicki

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Housing

Downtown L.A.’s Notorious Cecil Hotel Is Being Turned Into Affordable Housing for Skid Row

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Investigative Report

Block-Long Fence Erected Across From New Netflix Campus Restricts Pedestrian Access to Sidewalk And Pushes Homeless Deeper East

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City Reverses Decision to Remove Washing Stations From Encampments Following L.A. TACO Investigation

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The City is Deciding to Remove All Hand-Washing Stations At Encampments As COVID-19 Cases Surge (Again)

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How This WeHo Barber Took Control of His Life Again After Years of Meth and Prison

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Hand-Washing Station Vendors Collected Millions of Dollars In Payments From The City While Some Units Went Dry

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There Weren’t Enough Porta-Potties for the Homeless To Begin With, in October They’re Being Pulled

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Garcetti Said That L.A.’s Hand-Washing Stations for the Homeless Were Regularly Refilled, Records Obtained Show Otherwise