Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn presented a $500,000 check to support the 50-bed New Hope Shelter, which will provide interim housing and supportive services to individuals experiencing homelessness in Bellflower. “I have always said that any city in my…
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Hector, 62, was incarcerated for 31 years. Upon release, he experienced drastic changes in his personal life. The people he was once close to had moved on. He believed the only way to get back some dignity was to be…
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Larava is a 20-year-old single mother participating in the Foster Youth to Independence (FYI) program. She was aging out of foster care when she was issued a voucher through LACDA, but she immediately began encountering barriers in locating housing. She…
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Housing for Health and Exodus Recovery announced the opening of an interim housing site with triage beds and 24/7 clinical care to meet the immediate health care and housing needs among people experiencing homelessness in South Los Angeles. Safe Landing…
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LA County has updated its strategies to fight homelessness and is mounting a scaled-up, streamlined, equitable, all-hands-on-deck response to the crisis.
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Army vet James Gallegos had been living in a garage for years when a court finally ordered him to leave. Faced with life on the street, he turned to Veteran Service Officer Reymundo Borjon, who referred him to the Veteran Peer…
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The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) announced the opening of its Winter Shelter Program for the 2022-2023 winter season. These emergency shelters offer a total of 143 beds across five sites to help people experiencing homelessness escape winter weather.…
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Larava Patton is a former foster youth who had been living in her car with her baby. Now, both of them have a roof over their heads. Los Angeles County’s Homeless Incentive Program (HIP), administered by the Los Angeles Development…
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Richard, 63, grew up in El Monte in a family that struggled with addiction. He’d been homeless 10 years, the unofficial “mayor” of an encampment under a freeway overpass, when he secured interim housing at a Project Roomkey hotel through…
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The State of California awarded Los Angeles County a nearly $15 million grant to help 500 people living in Skid Row encampments transition to housing. It was part of a package of $48 million in Encampment Resolution Funding announced by…
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