Hear in the City

The Homeless count in Los Angeles County is done every two years and is headed by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), the lead agency in the county’s Continuum of Care. Two years ago when the count estimated that 42,694 people were homeless in Los Angeles County. The numbers from last week’s count are not in yet, but Hear in the City’s Luis Sierra Campos takes us on a journey with volunteers in the City Covina whose assignment it is to take a census of how many people are living with out permanent shelter.

This week's Hear in the City offers you a sonic journey into translations between languages, media, and landscapes as we map an eclectic sampling of Mexican artists whose work is currently featured around Los Angeles.

03.29.11: LAUSD School Number 13 by Sara Harris

On this week's episode, we ring the big bell at the Nishi Honganji Buddhist Temple in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles at 2:46pm in recognition and solidarity with the people of Japan who were hit by the earthquake and Tsunami last year. We also visit an unusual architectural landscape of courtrooms and social services dedicated to children who have become wards of the foster care system.

It's the first day of summer, the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. We take the opportunity to look at how budget cuts in California are affecting summer course offerings at community colleges while philanthropy allows a new art museum to flourish in East Los Angeles. We visit a nearly one-hundred-year-old music school in Boyle Heights, and we sit down for a special reading of the "Infection Monologues" in honor of the 30th anniversary of the first AIDS diagnosis, here in Los Angeles.