A fraction of people in temporary shelters end up in permanent housing, according to CalMatters’ year-long investigation. Conditions are squalid. Fraud is rampant. And residents often endure physical and sexual abuse.

LA Fire HEALTH is a research consortium with experts from multiple universities. They intend to fill in some of the gaps in environmental and public health monitoring left by the government. 

The Trump administration’s classification of sex as either “male” or “female” erases the nearly 2% of people who are intersex.

Playwright Larissa FastHorse’s “Fake It Until You Make It” is a farce about two women — one Indigenous, the other white — competing for a grant to fund their nonprofits.