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SoCal Connected
The Way Home
SoCal Connected explores permanent solutions to LA's homeless crisis with studio guests and video profiles of formerly homeless individuals, hosted by Val Zavala. Profiles are of a veteran, a young man from the Foster Care system and a single mother. Studio guests are L.A. County Supervisor Janice Hahn, Mark Horvath from Invisible People, Jill Bauman from Imagine LA, Celina Alvarez from Housing Works, Will Watts from Public Counsel and Wendy Greuel from the L.A. Homeless Services Authority.
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A man's search for his missing wife who suffers from early onset Alzheimers reveals gaps in the system meant to locate and care for the mentally impaired in California. "SoCal Connected" documents the journey to answer, where's Nancy?

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Public street disrepair is costing Los Angeles millions in costly personal injury claims.

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They’re tiny, weaponized, and carry a potentially deadly payload. They’re called “Assassin Bugs” and they can be as common as the backyard mosquito or as exotic as the so-called “kissing bug"--and they're here in Southern California, spreading some of the

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SoCal Connected's Deepa Dernandes questions Santa Barbara landlord Dario Pini.

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Examine L.A.'s unregulated short-term housing market and an indoor marijuana facility employing veterans.

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A look at the spike in the number of employers retaliating against undocumented workers.

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As new developments pop up all over L.A., many are asking, 'Who approved that?'