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L.A. County steps up efforts to eradicate homelessness 700 525 Homeless Initiative

L.A. County steps up efforts to eradicate homelessness

Ethnically diverse advocates detailed their efforts to eradicate homelessness during New America Media’s forum at Skid Row Housing Trust’s Apartments on Feb. 3. Panelists hailed from African-American, Chinese, Latino and Korean backgrounds. The briefing focused on how L.A. County is…

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A movement mobilizes

About 500 people, including elected officials, nonprofit leaders and concerned activists, turned out for the county’s first annual Homeless Initiative Conference. Here are some highlights from a day dedicated to mobilizing and strategizing about ways to solve Los Angeles County’s…

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County voters to decide on quarter-cent sales tax for homelessness programs

When Los Angeles voters overwhelmingly approved a bond measure in November to build apartments for the chronically homeless, long-frustrated advocates hailed the victory as a watershed in their efforts to provide permanent homes for thousands of people living on the…

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L.A. County steps up efforts to eradicate homelessness 1024 682 Homeless Initiative

L.A. County steps up efforts to eradicate homelessness

Ethnically diverse advocates detailed their efforts to eradicate homelessness during New America Media’s forum at Skid Row Housing Trust’s Apartments on Feb. 3. Panelists hailed from African-American, Chinese, Latino and Korean backgrounds. The briefing focused on how L.A. County’s is…

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Housing push helps homeless youth find their way home

Looking back on it now, Eustolia Farias thinks it was inevitable that she would wind up homeless at a young age. Her mother took off when she was a toddler. Her father worked long hours at a garment factory, but…

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How the homeless count is going high-tech 1024 681 Homeless Initiative

How the homeless count is going high-tech

From thermal imaging to tailored questionnaires, Southern California counties are innovating how to better quantify and understand local homeless populations. Around the region, annual and biannual homeless counts kick off this week. Thousands of volunteers are expected to canvass streets,…

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Special clinics help keep mentally ill out of jail and ERs

KPCC – A growing chain of specialized Los Angeles County clinics is keeping people experiencing mental health crises from ending up in jail or an emergency room, according to statistics compiled by the county and an agency that runs two…

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‘I made it home:’ Homeless vets celebrate new Harbor Gateway apartments 1024 682 Homeless Initiative

‘I made it home:’ Homeless vets celebrate new Harbor Gateway apartments

DAILY BREEZE – A congresswoman, philanthropic-minded developers and investors all lined up to speak Thursday at the grand opening celebration of the Vermont Villas in Harbor Gateway. But it was Army veteran Jimmie Lee Anderson, who spent years living on…

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How L.A. is housing thousands of homeless long before Proposition HHH units get built 1024 682 Homeless Initiative

How L.A. is housing thousands of homeless long before Proposition HHH units get built

New homeless housing to be built using the $1.2-billion bond Los Angeles city voters approved in November may be three to five years in the future. In the meantime, a program created by Mitchell H. Katz, director of the Los…

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How the homeless count is going high-tech 1024 683 Homeless Initiative

How the homeless count is going high-tech