FY 2024-25 APPROVED SPENDING PLAN
The Board of Supervisors on February 6, 2024, unanimously approved a $783 million spending plan for the Los Angeles County Homeless Initiative (CEO-HI) in fiscal year 2024-25 that sustains and expands the County’s existing homeless services system and ramps up the homelessness emergency response while investing in critical programs.
The plan includes $662.3 million for homelessness prevention, outreach, interim housing, permanent housing, and supportive services – all essential elements of the homeless services system – plus an additional $120.7 million to support Pathway Home and other critical projects necessary to scale up and fast-track the County’s homelessness emergency response. This spending plan will be funded with $587.2 million in anticipated voter-approved tax revenue; $140 million in additional County funds, and $55.8 million in State Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention (HHAP) grant dollars.
Pathway Home leverages emergency powers and partnerships with local jurisdictions to bring people out of encampments and into immediately available interim housing accompanied by a comprehensive suite of supportive services and, ultimately, into safe, permanent homes. The spending plan also earmarks funding for critical projects, such as the Skid Row Action Plan, and specialized outreach to address recreational vehicle (RV) encampments and those in high fire severity zones in unincorporated communities. This amount also includes opiate treatment, harm reduction, and other efforts to reduce the mortality rate among people experiencing homelessness.
BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS
- 38 Pathway Home encampment resolution operations projected to serve 1,800 people and remove at least 300 unsafe RV encampments from roadways.
- $311.5 million for permanent housing and supportive services.
- $240.7 million for interim housing beds to bring people indoors as quickly as possible.
- $65.5 million to deploy specialized outreach and engagement teams to help people living in the streets, or who are poised to leave jail settings, by providing medical care, behavioral health supports and connections, and link them to housing and services.
- 8,332 locally funded rental subsidies, a 65% increase over last fiscal year, to quickly permanently house people who have recently become homeless.
- Wraparound services for nearly 27,500 people placed in permanent housing, over 24,000 of whom are in supportive housing and have complex needs such as chronic medical and/or behavioral health conditions.
- Supporting nearly 5,000 households to identify housing in the private rental market through efforts such as landlord engagement, move-in assistance, security deposits and new innovations, such as master leasing.
- $40.5 million to strengthen the County’s collaboration with cities and Councils of Government (COGs) in resolving encampments and co-investing in housing as well as increases in compensation rates for nonprofit organizations contracted to provide interim housing, case management, and other services.
This spending plan was created with input from community members and stakeholders who participated in over 17 Listening Sessions that drew 600 attendees in October and November 2023. Feedback was also solicited from County departments, agencies and nonprofit organizations that constitute the County’s homeless services system, people with lived expertise, residents from each of the County’s eight service planning areas, Spanish language speakers, and cities and COGs.
The Homeless Initiative funding recommendations represent a significant portion, but not all, of the County’s investments to address and prevent homelessness, which also include the mainstream work of the County Departments of Health Services, Mental Health, Public Health, Public Social Services, and several other agencies.
The Homeless Initiative administers funding from Measure H, a quarter-cent sales tax approved by over two-thirds of County voters in 2017 to create the first revenue stream dedicated to addressing and preventing homelessness. It also administers HHAP grant dollars, $114 million in Housing and Homeless Incentive Program funding (HHIP) over five years, plus an annual $100 million Affordable Housing (AH) Program Budget which, along with other funding sources, supports the creation and preservation of affordable housing, and other activities. HHIP and AH funding are separate from the spending plan released today.