Editorials https://www.latimes.com/topic/editorials Editorials en-US Sun, 30 Mar 2025 12:00:40 GMT To understand homelessness, listen to homeless people. Here's what I learned https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-03-30/los-angeles-homelessness-listening-to-the-unhoused Don't we all want better for all people who are this impoverished? Los Angeles cannot thrive if there is one community of people safely in homes and another forced onto the sidewalks. Sun, 30 Mar 2025 12:00:40 GMT https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-03-30/los-angeles-homelessness-listening-to-the-unhoused Stop finding ways to kill the Venice Dell homeless housing project and get it built instead https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-03-23/los-angeles-opposition-venice-dell-homeless-housing-project It's outrageous that the city is still looking for ways to stop the project, years after it was approved. Sun, 23 Mar 2025 12:00:39 GMT https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-03-23/los-angeles-opposition-venice-dell-homeless-housing-project For California towns with a bear problem, using dogs to hunt is no solution https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-03-09/california-bear-hunting-dogs Hounding bears won't prevent dangerous encounters with humans. But bear-proofing your property will help. Sun, 09 Mar 2025 12:00:28 GMT https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-03-09/california-bear-hunting-dogs Keeping at-risk residents from losing their housing will be a key to solving homelessness https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-03-02/los-angeles-homelessness-prevention It is easier and less costly to keep someone from becoming homeless than it is to help them out of the trauma of homelessness and find them permanent housing. Sun, 02 Mar 2025 13:00:24 GMT https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-03-02/los-angeles-homelessness-prevention Culver City, don't roll back your ambitious safe street redesign https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-04-20/editorial-culver-city-dont-roll-back-your-ambitious-safe-street-redesign For the last several years, Culver City has become a model for forward-thinking urban design, supporting a transit-friendly walkable, bikeable downtown. Why go backwards now? Tue, 25 Feb 2025 17:43:46 GMT https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-04-20/editorial-culver-city-dont-roll-back-your-ambitious-safe-street-redesign Finally, the Supreme Court can help a California family get back art stolen by Nazis https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-02-23/camille-pissarro-painting-supreme-court-lilly-cassirer Under a recent California law, justice can be done at long last, if the case is allowed to proceed. Sun, 23 Feb 2025 13:00:22 GMT https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-02-23/camille-pissarro-painting-supreme-court-lilly-cassirer The state lags on fire safety rules, but even common sense should limit combustibles near homes https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-02-16/los-angeles-fires-rebuilding-combustible-materials-zone-zero The state can't make people protect their homes and neighborhoods better until it makes the government finish writing the rules. Sun, 16 Feb 2025 13:00:50 GMT https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-02-16/los-angeles-fires-rebuilding-combustible-materials-zone-zero Out on the streets to count L.A.'s unhoused, volunteers learn far more than numbers can convey https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-02-09/los-angeles-point-in-time-homeless-count-february-2025 It may not be a perfect survey of homelessness, but the annual point-in-time count serves many purposes. Sun, 09 Feb 2025 13:00:44 GMT https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-02-09/los-angeles-point-in-time-homeless-count-february-2025 How fast can L.A. get rid of all this debris from the fires? https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-02-02/los-angeles-fires-palisades-eaton-altadena-cleanup-debris-removal Before anyone can rebuild, we have to remove tons of debris. Sun, 02 Feb 2025 13:00:19 GMT https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-02-02/los-angeles-fires-palisades-eaton-altadena-cleanup-debris-removal Fires aggravated L.A.'s housing crisis. We need to build homes much faster https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-01-26/los-angeles-wildfires-housing-crisis This post-disaster period should be an inflection point for government officials to take a hard look at how to speed up much-needed housing everywhere across the city and county. Sun, 26 Jan 2025 13:00:19 GMT https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-01-26/los-angeles-wildfires-housing-crisis We're running out of time to rescue the pets that survived the Palisades fire https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-01-24/rescue-the-pets-that-survived-the-palisades-fire In Pacific Palisades, few residents have been allowed into the area to search for pets. Nonprofit animal welfare groups have also, generally, not been allowed to search. Fri, 24 Jan 2025 19:04:04 GMT https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-01-24/rescue-the-pets-that-survived-the-palisades-fire After the fires, must we get rid of our flammable eucalyptus and palm trees? Maybe not https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-01-22/los-angeles-fires-plam-trees-eucalyptus-native-plants Not every flammable plant must go, but we should carefully consider how we replant in burned areas. Wed, 22 Jan 2025 13:00:49 GMT https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-01-22/los-angeles-fires-plam-trees-eucalyptus-native-plants