The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a motion authored by Chair Hilda L. Solis, Supervisor to the First District and co-authored by Supervisor Sheila Kuehl to develop recommendations for a tenant opportunity to purchase act (TOPA) for unincorporated…
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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed a proposal by Supervisor Janice Hahn and co-authored by Supervisor Kathryn Barger to expand the county’s Psychiatric Mobile Response Team (PMRT) program. LA County’s Psychiatric Mobile Response Teams are teams of unarmed…
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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 County Board of Supervisors approved a motion to reduce overdoses among people experiencing homelessness by expanding proven harm reduction strategies. LA County already operates harm reduction programs including Medication-Assisted Treatment, syringe programs, and naloxone (a medication that reverses…
read moreLos Angeles County Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell, representing the Second District, organized a Mother’s Day distribution with Baby2Baby that provided hundreds of families in the Watts-Willowbrook community with diapers, wipes and special Mother’s Day gifts at the local Boys and…
read moreSupervisor Holly J. Mitchell recently toured a hotel that’s been turned into interim housing for families. Los Angeles County purchased the 41-room former Travel Plaza Inn in late 2020 to serve as a Project Homekey site dedicated to serving families.…
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Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Chair Hilda L. Solis, Supervisor to the First District, today hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for the Restorative Care Village Project at LAC+USC Medical Center in Boyle Heights – a first-in-the-nation mental health and well-being…
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In the early months of the COVID19 pandemic, thousands of medically fragile LA County residents who were experiencing homelessness were prioritized for temporary housing in motels and hotels through the Project Room Key program. In the coming months, many of…
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The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) released data about the homeless rehousing system’s performance in 2020 during its first State of Homelessness Town Hall – an online event attended by over 1300 people. In 2020, LAHSA and its partners…
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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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