Los Angeles Homeless Fill Emergency Shelter Sites to Escape Brutal Storm

All of Los Angeles’ emergency shelter beds for the homeless population were filled Feb. 6 after the city made them available to help people get off the streets during this week’s storm. The city activated its winter shelter program to help its 46,000 homeless people stay safe, according to Mayor Karen Bass. “What I learned is that Los Angeles can handle very big challenges, and if we stick together, we will come out so far ahead,” Ms. Bass said at a news conference. People gather near an encampment of homeless people in Skid Row as a powerful long-duration atmospheric river storm, the second in less than a week, continues to impact Southern California in Los Angeles on Feb. 6, 2024. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) One of the city’s tiny-home villages occupied by formerly homeless people flooded Monday and 100 residents had to be relocated, according to the mayor....