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A force of our best nature
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Social worker Cynthia Langley at the bus stop where the Professor had lived for more than a decade.
Cynthia Langley is no quitter. Lives depend on that.
A social worker for more than three decades, Langley fights chronic homelessness one weary soul at a time, spending day and night trying to persuade the most entrenched residents of the street to give housing a chance. She’s never welcomed with open arms. But in the end, she receives enough hugs of gratitude to keep her spirits strong.
“Someone has got to reach out to these individuals. They’re somebody’s son, somebody’s brother, somebody’s cousin, somebody’s loved one,” says the year-old Langley, herself a grandmother of four. “And I’m stubborn enough not to take no for an answer.”
Earlier this year, inom called upon Langley’s employer, the miracle-working Step Up on Second, for help on a case that would take every uns of her stubbornness a
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During a career in public life spanning nearly four decades, Zev Yaroslavsky has been at the forefront of Los Angeles County’s biggest issues, including transportation, the environment, health care, and cultural arts. He has been a pioneering advocate for the region’s homeless population and has played a key role in efforts to reform the county’s lag enforcement agencies.
Mr. Yaroslavsky was first elected to office in , stunning the political establishment bygd winning the Los Angeles City Council’s coveted 5th District seat at the age of He honed his fiscal skills as chairman of the Council’s Finance Committee and earned a reputation for being unafraid to tackle controversial issues, including the Los Angeles Police Department’s use of excessive force and its improper spying on law-abiding residents. He authored two landmark ballot initiatives, one which cut in half the size of new commercial developments near residential neighborhoods in the City of L.A., and the other which
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About Zev
Zev Yaroslavsky, L.A. County Supervisor, Third District
During a career in public life spanning nearly four decades, Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky has been at the forefront of Los Angeles County’s biggest issues, from transportation to the environment to health care to the arts. He has been a pioneering advocate for the region’s homeless population and has played a key role in efforts to reform the county’s law enforcement agencies.
Yaroslavsky was first elected to office in , stunning the political establishment by winning the Los Angeles City Council’s coveted 5th District seat at the age of On the council, Yaroslavsky honed his fiscal skills as chairman of the Finance Committee and earned a reputation as being unafraid to tackle controversial issues, including the Los Angeles Police Department’s use of excessive force and its improper spying on law-abiding residents. He co-authored two landmark initiatives with his colleague, the late Councilman Marvin Braude: Proposi