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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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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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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The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority has introduced a new level of transparency and accountability through the establishment and publication of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), a set of metrics that measure the progress of unhoused populations in the Los Angeles…
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VIRTUAL COMMUNITY LISTENING SESSIONS The Los Angeles County Homeless Initiative held a series of community listening sessions from September 28th to October 24th, 2022, to get public input on its new framework of strategies for addressing and preventing homelessness. Listening…
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In partnership with the nonprofit California Housing Partnership, the Los Angeles County Chief Executive Office released the Sixth Affordable Housing Outcomes Report in August 2022. Due to pandemic-related challenges in data collection, this report relied on 2019 demographic, gap, and cost…
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