Hey, hey, what's up?

It's Gustavo Ariano, and you're listening to The Times, Daily News from the LA Times.

It's Tuesday, July 19, 2022.

Today, I'll be passing on the mic to my L.A. Times colleague, Christina House.

She's one of many amazing photographers that we have on staff.

But today, she brings us into the life of Mackenzie Trajan.

She's a young woman in Hollywood who struggled with balancing motherhood

and homelessness. Christina photographed McKenzie starting in 2018 and learned how tough it is

to be both pregnant and homeless. Sadly, McKenzie's story isn't uncommon. There's about 60,000 homeless

people in Los Angeles, and homeless young

women are nearly five times more likely to become pregnant than housed young women. Just a heads

up. This episode contains explicit language. I was taking prenatals. I'm homeless. I was taking prenatals. I'm homeless.

I was taking prenatals, and I ended up getting everything I had taken, and the prenatals that I had got taken.

So right now I don't have any prenatals, which is something I was hoping I could take care of today.

Back in August of 2018,

my team was interested in telling the story of the unique situation

of being homeless and pregnant on the streets of Los Angeles.

Surprisingly, my colleague, Gail Holland,

who covers homelessness for the Los Angeles Times,

received a call from a woman telling us that

her daughter was pregnant and living in a tent above the 101 freeway. And while she was away

at court earlier that day, a cow trans crew came through and sweep through her encampment, and she

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