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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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L.A.’s Funding For Homeless Porta Potties and Sinks Is Drying Up

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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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West Coast Rapper Warren G Joined LA CAN & Polo’s Pantry To Give Away Hundreds Of Meals In Skid Row

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Too Bad It Took a Pandemic to Get L.A.’s Homeless Population Some Basic Services

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(Update) Hundreds of Illegal Sidewalk Planters Are Still Displacing the Homeless in L.A., Six Months After the City Council Said They Would Investigate

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918 Unhoused People Died on L.A.’s Streets Last Year, This Is the Tragic Story of One of Them: Joseph Reyes

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A Life Downsized to a Van on a Street in Echo Park ~ 16,000 People in Vehicles in L.A.

Marcela Valdivia is journalist covering the Latino community in Los Angeles.

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An L.A. Portrait: A Single Rent Increase Put This Woman on the Streets in Los Feliz

Philip Iglauer covered all things Koreana for 15 years — foreign diplomats, kimchi, Samsung and, of course, North Korea — out of Seoul. After returning to his native Northeast Los Angeles in late 2016, he freelances on his hometown’s goings-on.

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Study: Business Improvement Districts Use Your Tax Dollars to Harass Homeless People

Steph was born and raised in Southern California. She has covered the cities of Lynwood and South Gate and currently writes about diversity and immigration in Long Beach.

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South Gate Community Fights Proposal for Housing Homeless Veterans on Downey Border

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