Los Angeles County and Clifford Beers Housing have been awarded funding for a Project Homekey development from the California Department of Housing and Community Development in Los Angeles. The project, known as Avenida, will rehabilitate the current Avenue Hotel located…
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619 Westlake, a 78-unit affordable housing community for families and individuals, will soon rise next to the historic Westlake Theater, and just east of Los Angeles’ iconic MacArthur Park.
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The Los Angeles County Homeless Initiative is committed to addressing barriers facing the American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) population at risk of or experiencing homelessness. On March 21, 2022, Monday, at 1 p.m., we will host a Virtual Community Engagement…
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LA Family Housing (LAFH) has begun construction on The Emerald, a new affordable and permanent supportive housing building in Lancaster, CA. The project will feature 72 units of affordable and permanent supportive housing for families who have experienced chronic homelessness.…
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“Our teams are out there day after day to help our hardest to reach individuals, including many who don’t think they need help,” said Aubree Lovelace, manager of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health’s Homeless Outreach and Mobile…
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Thanks to a new round of funding from the State of California, Los Angeles County is looking to build on the success of Homekey, a program that repurposes hotels and motels into homes and shelters for people experiencing homelessness. Through…
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The Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an unprecedented $527.1 million budget for the Los Angeles County Homeless Initiative in FY 2021-22. The Homeless Initiative is Los Angeles County’s massive effort to expand and enhance services for people who are homelessness…
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In what was once a Motel 6 in Baldwin Park, 36-year-old Laura Morales found a home after three years on the streets. She’s one of many homeless people in Los Angeles County who received a room of her own…
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The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) released the third annual report on mortality among people experiencing homelessness (PEH) in LA County. This new report compares deaths among PEH during the 12-month period preceding the first reported PEH COVID-19 death in the county (April 1st, 2019-March 31st, 2020) and the 12-month pandemic period that followed (April 1st, 2020-March 31st, 2021). The…
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An independent analysis attributed much of that progress to Measure H and the strategies of the LA County Homeless Initiative Los Angeles County’s homeless services system, dramatically expanded and enhanced by Measure H and other investments, helped 72,815 people exit homelessness into permanent housing and placed 85,734 people into interim…
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