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Learn and Earn with Careers for a Cause 600 541 CVillacorte

Learn and Earn with Careers for a Cause

Another class has graduated from a Los Angeles County program that allows people to learn and earn. Careers for a Cause is an 8-week training program that connects LA County residents with lived life experiences such as homelessness, justice system…

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Manuel Moves Up 600 541 CVillacorte

Manuel Moves Up

Manuel, 30, became homeless after fleeing a rundown East LA “trap house” with gang activity. “There was no running water nor electricity, let alone gas. It was hot in the summers and cold in the winters to the point that…

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LA County Funds Solutions Amid Homeless Emergency 600 541 CVillacorte

LA County Funds Solutions Amid Homeless Emergency

Four weeks after declaring a local emergency on homelessness, the Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a $609.7 million budget for the Los Angeles County Homeless Initiative for fiscal year 2023-24, the largest investment in any given year to date to…

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Federal Funding Tackles Visible Concentrated Homelessness 600 541 CVillacorte

Federal Funding Tackles Visible Concentrated Homelessness

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) granted the LA Continuum of Care (LA CoC) $60 million ($20 million over three years) – the maximum amount under this grant – to address unsheltered homelessness throughout the LA region.…

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Homeless Count Sheds Light on Scope of Crisis 600 541 CVillacorte

Homeless Count Sheds Light on Scope of Crisis

Thousands of volunteers fanned out across 4,000 square miles of Los Angeles County on January 24-26 to conduct the 2023 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count. This annual point-in-time census is essential to learning where people experiencing homelessness are located, trends…

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LA County Declares State of Emergency on Homelessness 600 541 CVillacorte

LA County Declares State of Emergency on Homelessness

 The Board of Supervisors proclaimed a Local Emergency for Homelessness in the County of Los Angeles. The motion’s authors, Supervisors Lindsey Horvath and Kathryn Barger, said that “proclaiming a local emergency to address this critical crisis will provide the…

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Call for Volunteers on Homeless Count 600 541 CVillacorte

Call for Volunteers on Homeless Count

The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) announced an array of updates on how it conducts the annual Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count. For the 2023 Homeless Count, LAHSA is taking lessons learned from last year and the best practices…

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Former Foster Kids Find Home 600 541 CVillacorte

Former Foster Kids Find Home

Once he turned 21, foster youth Tysaiah Cooper was aging out of the system and in danger of losing housing. But thanks to a unique partnership between Los Angeles County, a nonprofit, and a philanthropic foundation, he and other vulnerable…

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Housing for Native Americans 600 541 CVillacorte

Housing for Native Americans

Spectrum News 1’s Lydia Pantazes recently visited a South Los Angeles apartment complex that became the first to be dedicated to Native Americans experiencing some kind of homelessness. Click here to watch the video. The United American Indian Involvement UAII…

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Federal Plan on Homelessness 600 541 CVillacorte

Federal Plan on Homelessness

The Biden-Harris administration released a federal plan for ending homelessness in America that starts with the ambitious goal of reducing homelessness 25% by 2025. All In: The Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness builds on the success of previous…

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