Media
How are the Games and homelessness being covered?
Press coverage shapes what the public believes is happening, and what officials feel pressure to do. This page tracks reporting on homelessness and the 2028 Games, and hosts the project's own public-facing writing.
Selected coverage
A starting reading list. Contributors can add, reorder or remove entries in the admin panel. Linking here is not an endorsement of a story's framing.
LAist
Researchers estimate close to 6,000 unsheltered people live within a mile of Olympic venues
Coverage of this project’s mapping work, and the response from city and county officials, who say people inside security zones during the Games will probably have to move.
Los Angeles Times
L.A. freeways and roads to be closed to general traffic for the 2028 Olympics
A plan to block off freeway and street lanes for the exclusive use of athletes, staff and officials during the Games, and what it would mean for everyone else moving around the county.
LAist
LA County weighs plans to clear encampments near Olympic venues
Reporting on a regional strategy that would estimate the cost of removing encampments around Games venues, and the objections raised by advocates.
AfroLA
LA's 'no-build' promise meets the housing crisis
An examination of what the no-new-construction pledge does and does not mean for housing supply and displacement in Los Angeles.
Giants Wire
High Desert cities fear Los Angeles will move unhoused people out before the Games
Victor Valley leaders are forming a regional committee on homelessness, on the concern that clearances near the venues will push people into cities far from them.
LA Local
Who is responsible for unhoused people during the Games?
On the absence of a single coordinating authority for homelessness across the many jurisdictions hosting Olympic events.