By day, All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Highland Park is a place of worship. By night, it’s where dozens of people come to sleep under dimmed lights, in the wooden pews. “I lay right down here, ” Zonia Sotelo, 46,…
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With homelessness on the rise throughout southeast Los Angeles County, the Board of Supervisors has infused an additional $860,000 into a multifaceted effort led by the Gateway Cities Council of Governments to identify and house homeless individuals and families. The…
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Los Angeles County has received a $428,819 award of additional funding for Project-Based Vouchers (PBV) under the Veteran Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH) program. This award will allow the Housing Authority of the County of Los Angeles (HACoLA), in partnership with…
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Drawing a line between homelessness and high housing costs, a pair of Los Angeles County supervisors have proposed spending $100 million a year on affordable housing. County Supervisors Sheila Kuehl and Mark Ridley-Thomas want the majority of the funds to…
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Supervisors Sheila Kuehl and Mark Ridley-Thomas have unveiled a comprehensive affordable housing plan marking an unprecedented financial commitment of up to $100 million annually toward low and very low-income housing programs as well as workforce housing programs across Los Angeles…
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Thousands of people stream out of Los Angeles county jails, foster homes, hospitals and state prisons with no place to go, overwhelming efforts to stem the rise in homelessness, experts said Thursday. The county and state don’t track how many…
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On a motion by Supervisors Mark Ridley-Thomas and Michael Antonovich, the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved investing $15 million on programs to rapidly rehouse the homeless and to prevent families and individuals from becoming homeless. The money would come…
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Los Angeles County emergency managers told the Board of Supervisors Tuesday they plan a more assertive approach to getting river-dwelling homeless people out of the way of stormwater that could come with a rainy El Niño winter. Read the full…
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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously agreed Tuesday to spend $15 million to fund housing programs for the county’s homeless. The plan, authored by Supervisors Mark Ridley-Thomas and Michael Antonovich, will create and fund… Read full article here:…
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On October 6, 2015, Supervisors Ridley-Thomas and Knabe called for $600,000 in funding to enter into an agreement with Persons Assisting The Homeless (PATH) in order to implement coordinated and targeted outreach and engagement in the South Bay region, with…
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