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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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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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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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 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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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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The Department of Health Services’ Housing for Health sends specialized street outreach teams across Los Angeles County to offer help to people experiencing homelessness, and is expanding those teams under the current State of Emergency declared by the…
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LA County departments work to remove burned and abandoned RVs in Gardena on June 1, 2023. (Photo by Los Angeles County) Los Angeles County is ramping up efforts to remove recreational vehicles (RV’s) that had served as encampments for people…
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The Biden Administration launched ALL INside, a first-of-its-kind initiative to address unsheltered homelessness across the country by entering into partnerships with cities such as the City of Los Angeles, which accounts for 60 percent of the homeless population in Los…
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Metro is doubling the number of outreach teams in its transit systems who help connect people experiencing homelessness to services, support and housing, significantly expanding a program that started five years ago. KCBS/KCAL joined one of those teams consisting of…
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