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Pathway Home Resolves East Gardena RV Encampment 600 541 CVillacorte

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…

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Lives Saved Amid Tropical Storm Hilary 600 541 CVillacorte

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…

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New “Pathway Home” Program for Encampments 600 541 Marlon Baker

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
Homekey:  Dunamis House Making the Grade 600 541 Marlon Baker

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…

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Mobile Clinics Supporting Metro 600 541 Marlon Baker

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…

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Preserving Existing Residential Care Facilities 600 541 Marlon Baker

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…

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Homekey: Avenida Welcomes Homeless 600 541 Marlon Baker

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…

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2023 Homeless Count Prompts Vows to Take Urgent Action 600 541 CVillacorte

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…

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More Housing and Services in Skid Row 600 541 CVillacorte

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…

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Inside Safe in Chatsworth Houses 50 People 600 541 CVillacorte

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…

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