Charlie Lebeau is one of thousands of vulnerable youth who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. He’s found refuge in Dunamis House in Boyle Heights, one of Los Angeles County’s Homekey motel conversions. Dunamis is a partnership between…
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The stories of young people who once were at risk of homelessness and now benefitting from a recently opened Homekey housing complex continue to pour in. The Los Angeles Times recent feature on the Dunamis House in Boyle Heights captures…
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Avenida, Los Angeles County’s latest Project Homekey for permanent supportive housing, is opening in the Koreatown/Rampart Village area with 75 studio apartments for people experiencing homelessness. Holos Communities partnered with Los Angeles County to renovate the former hotel through Homekey…
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Hope the Mission and Los Angeles County partnered to transform a former motel into interim housing for families. The Woodlands Family Shelter is part of Homekey 2.0, a program of the California State Housing Community Development Department that aims to…
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One of first motels acquired by Los Angeles County through the Homekey program is about to be transformed into 7th Avenue Village at Hacienda Heights, a long-term apartment housing complex with intensive supportive services for formerly unhoused individuals. Housing Works…
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One of Los Angeles County’s original Homekey sites in unincorporated Whittier is about to become home to nearly 100 people experiencing homelessness. The County acquired the former Motel 6 during the worst of the pandemic to temporarily shelter medically fragile…
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Families experiencing homelessness will soon find a safe haven at The Alvarado, Los Angeles County’s latest Homekey property, set to begin accepting residents next month. Located near MacArthur Park in the Westlake District of Los Angeles, The Alvarado is a…
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The State of California Department of Housing and Community Development’s (HCD’s) Homekey Program provides funding to local public entities (and their co-applicants) to purchase and rehabilitate housing, including hotels, motels, vacant apartment buildings, and other buildings and convert them into interim…
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Responding to the urgent need to provide permanent housing to people experiencing homelessness, the Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a motion to transform ownership of eight properties purchased with the first round of Homekey funding (Homekey 1) to community-based developers…
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Building on the success of Project Homekey 1.0, Los Angeles County has secured $243 million in state funding for Homekey 2.0 which it will use to convert 14 hotels and multi-family apartments into interim or permanent housing for people experiencing…
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