News & Updates – Page 3 – Homeless Initiative

By:CVillacorte
August 29, 2023
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Pathway Home Resolves East Gardena RV Encampment https://homeless.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/2.jpg 600 541 CVillacorte CVillacorte https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/33f51288a2dcbd3eb733891535bb2f9b?s=96&d=mm&r=g August 29, 2023 September 15, 2023

Pathway Home Resolves East Gardena RV Encampment

Los Angeles County’s new Pathway Home program to resolve encampments, including recreational vehicles (RVs), successfully placed 58 people into interim housing – including families with children – and removed 30 dilapidated RVs being used as makeshift dwellings on the streets…

By:CVillacorte
August 21, 2023
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Lives Saved Amid Tropical Storm Hilary https://homeless.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/1.jpg 600 541 CVillacorte CVillacorte https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/33f51288a2dcbd3eb733891535bb2f9b?s=96&d=mm&r=g August 21, 2023 August 30, 2023

Lives Saved Amid Tropical Storm Hilary

As Tropical Storm Hilary approached Los Angeles County, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) worked in close collaboration with the Los Angeles Mayor’s Office and the Los Angeles County Homeless Initiative to help people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in areas…

By:Marlon Baker
August 16, 2023
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New “Pathway Home” Program for Encampments https://homeless.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/2-1.jpg 600 541 Marlon Baker Marlon Baker https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f38b1b676c68f0f8e34123261244226d?s=96&d=mm&r=g August 16, 2023 September 15, 2023

New “Pathway Home” Program for Encampments

Los Angeles County has launched Pathway Home, a major expansion of its efforts to resolve encampments, with a successful operation in unincorporated Lennox that helped 59 people move inside. The Pathway Home encampment resolution program, which includes recreational vehicles or RVs, is just one component of the ongoing, multi-pronged response to the homelessness crisis launched under the emergency declared by the Board of Supervisors in January. read more

By:Marlon Baker
July 26, 2023
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Homekey: Dunamis House Making the Grade https://homeless.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/3.jpg 600 541 Marlon Baker Marlon Baker https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f38b1b676c68f0f8e34123261244226d?s=96&d=mm&r=g July 26, 2023 September 6, 2023

Homekey: Dunamis House Making the Grade

The stories of young people who once were at risk of homelessness and now benefitting from a recently opened Homekey housing complex continue to pour in. The Los Angeles Times recent feature on the Dunamis House in Boyle Heights captures…

By:Marlon Baker
July 26, 2023
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Mobile Clinics Supporting Metro https://homeless.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/HI2.jpg 600 541 Marlon Baker Marlon Baker https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f38b1b676c68f0f8e34123261244226d?s=96&d=mm&r=g July 26, 2023 October 17, 2023

Mobile Clinics Supporting Metro

To help Metro with its enhanced efforts to improve safety on its trains and buses, Los Angeles County is providing its mobile medical units in key locations to provide immediate health and social services to people experiencing homelessness. The first-of-its-kind…

By:Marlon Baker
July 21, 2023
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Preserving Existing Residential Care Facilities https://homeless.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/HI23.jpg 600 541 Marlon Baker Marlon Baker https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f38b1b676c68f0f8e34123261244226d?s=96&d=mm&r=g July 21, 2023 October 17, 2023

Preserving Existing Residential Care Facilities

While Los Angeles County, nonprofit organizations and private developers are actively building new affordable and supportive housing units to address the homelessness emergency, a parallel effort is under way to preserve one critical form of existing housing. The Board of…

By:Marlon Baker
July 20, 2023
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Homekey: Avenida Welcomes Homeless https://homeless.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/HI1.jpg 600 541 Marlon Baker Marlon Baker https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f38b1b676c68f0f8e34123261244226d?s=96&d=mm&r=g July 20, 2023 October 17, 2023

Homekey: Avenida Welcomes Homeless

Avenida, Los Angeles County’s latest Project Homekey for permanent supportive housing, is opening in the Koreatown/Rampart Village area with 75 studio apartments for people experiencing homelessness. Holos Communities partnered with Los Angeles County to renovate the former hotel through Homekey…

By:CVillacorte
June 29, 2023
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2023 Homeless Count Prompts Vows to Take Urgent Action https://homeless.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Homeless-Count.png 600 541 CVillacorte CVillacorte https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/33f51288a2dcbd3eb733891535bb2f9b?s=96&d=mm&r=g June 29, 2023 June 30, 2023

2023 Homeless Count Prompts Vows to Take Urgent Action

The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority reported the 2023 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count results showed a 9% rise in homelessness on any given night in Los Angeles County to an estimated 75,518 people and a 10% rise in the…

By:CVillacorte
June 16, 2023
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More Housing and Services in Skid Row https://homeless.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/skidrowsquare.png 600 541 CVillacorte CVillacorte https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/33f51288a2dcbd3eb733891535bb2f9b?s=96&d=mm&r=g June 16, 2023 June 30, 2023

More Housing and Services in Skid Row

More than half of the homeless population in Skid Row – about 2,500 people – will move into housing and receive services over the next three years, thanks to a $60 million state grant to Los Angeles County’s Department of…

By:CVillacorte
June 14, 2023
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Inside Safe in Chatsworth Houses 50 People https://homeless.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Chatsworth-Cover.png 600 541 CVillacorte CVillacorte https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/33f51288a2dcbd3eb733891535bb2f9b?s=96&d=mm&r=g June 14, 2023 June 30, 2023

Inside Safe in Chatsworth Houses 50 People

The City and County of Los Angeles worked hand-in-hand on an Inside Safe operation in Chatsworth, bringing more than 50 unhoused residents indoors, and resolving an encampment located alongside a flood control channel and transit station. Inside Safe is a…