{"id":92856,"date":"2025-07-26T01:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T01:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/92856\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T01:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T01:38:14","slug":"evening-briefing-july-25-2025-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/92856\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Briefing: July 25, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good evening! We’re wrapping up the day for you with the most important stories you need to know and your weather outlook.<\/p>\n

Your Weather Planner<\/p>\n

Saturday will be the coolest day of the week, with a little warming beginning Sunday.<\/p>\n

Marine layer clouds will fill the valleys on Saturday morning, with clearing by the afternoon.<\/p>\n

Summerlike temperatures are returning early next week.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow’s Highs<\/p>\n

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Today’s Big Stories<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0LA County disbursed more than $81M for rent relief<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

As a result of a rent relief program implemented in December 2023, Los Angeles County disbursed more than $81 million to landlords, authorities announced Friday, saying the funds helped protect thousands of tenants from being evicted.<\/p>\n

The county Department of Consumer and Business Affairs reported the LA County Rent Relief Program played a pivotal role in ensuring tenants in areas of the highest needs received aid during a difficult moment due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to DCBA Director Rafael Carbajal. County officials opened the program in December 2023 and concluded the last round of support in June 2024.<\/p>\n

Grants of up to $30,000 per rental unit were issued through two rounds of applications. Funds covered past due rent and eligible expenses dating back to April 1, 2022.<\/p>\n

In total, 1,824 landlords received relief. The department, which oversaw the program, said it prioritized landlords who served vulnerable tenants, owned no more than four properties or managed units in areas of highest need as identified by the county’s Equity Explorer Tool.<\/p>\n

2. Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority appoints new leader<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Gita O’Neill, an assistant Los Angeles City attorney who handles homelessness policy, was appointed Friday as the new interim chief executive of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.<\/p>\n

The LAHSA Commission voted 7-1 to confirm O’Neill’s nomination. The agency is expected to negotiate a 12-month contract with O’Neill to lead the joint city-county homeless agency during a time when the organization is set to lose $300 million in funding and reduce its staff.<\/p>\n

“I am honored to step in to the role of interim CEO for LAHSA at such a critical juncture,” O’Neill said in a statement. “Increasing trust in LAHSA hinges on our ongoing commitment to transparency, particularly in LAHSA’s core function of contracting.”<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Sen. Padilla reintroduces bill to legalize long-term resident immigrants<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Nearly two months after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents began a crackdown in Los Angeles, Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., reintroduced the Renewing Immigration Provisions of the Immigration Act of 1929 \u2014 a bill that would update an almost 100-year-old law and make more immigrants eligible for permanent residency. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., introduced a companion bill Friday in the House.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are united in the belief that if you have lived here for seven years or more, contributed to the community for years and you don\u2019t have a criminal record, then you deserve a pathway to legalization. It\u2019s that simple,\u201d Padilla said at an event in downtown LA, where he was joined by family members of California immigrant residents who were detained in recent ICE raids.<\/p>\n

The bill would update a law known as the Registry Act, which created a process to allow immigrants to apply for permanent residency through a green card program as long as they arrived in the U.S. before a certain date. When the law was first passed in 1929, immigrants needed to prove they had arrived in the U.S. before 1921 to be eligible.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0With shoot days still lagging, Hollywood professionals face a loss of health insurance among other needs<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Without production work, there\u2019s no post-production work, and that means less on the timeline for video editor Craig Mayo.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s worked in television for nearly 30 years \u2014 including two decades on a syndicated talk show \u2014 but since that production moved out of state, things have been slow.<\/p>\n

Mayo was able to keep his health insurance for a while because of the hours he\u2019d banked and because of an extension from his union \u2014 Local 700 \u2014 offered during the writers and actors strike. But since he hasn\u2019t been able to meet the minimum number of work hours in the past few years, ultimately his insurance eligibility ran out.<\/p>\n

From January to June, the MPTF said it served over 4,000 clients. That\u2019s roughly the number they served in all of 2019, pre-COVID, and even post-COVID in 2022. Approximately 500 of this year\u2019s clients needed assistance related to the LA fires, but even without that, 2025 is seeing an enormous increase in need.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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(Spectrum News\/Tara Lynn Wagner)<\/p>\n

Your Notes for this Weekend<\/p>\n