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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After extensive community and stakeholder engagement, the Los Angeles County Homeless Initiative shared its $598.4 million draft funding recommendations for fiscal year 2023-24. It is the first set of funding recommendations to reflect the County’s New Framework to End Homelessness, approved…
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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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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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Housing for Health, a division of the Department of Health Services, has launched a fleet of medical field units that are now making daily stops at homeless encampments throughout Los Angeles County to address urgent health and social needs among…
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The Los Angeles County Development Authority (LACDA) recently announced the release of a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Bringing Families Home (BFH) Program. This RFP makes $20 million of funding available to registered non-profit organizations or joint ventures of…
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The Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services (DPSS) recently launched a three-year Guaranteed Income Pilot Program for 300 youth between the ages of 18 and 24 who are currently receiving County employment services through the General Relief Opportunities…
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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 lessons learned during the pandemic, the Board of Supervisors adopted two rent protection motions to help keep low-income families in their homes and to reduce the inflow of people into homelessness. The first motion, authored by Supervisors Sheila…
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