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South Los Angeles

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South Los Angeles

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State of the Homeless Town Hall: March 18, 2021

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on 26 February 2021

Registration is Now Open

Thursday, March 18, 2021, 
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm 

 You are invited to join LAHSA for a town hall on our system's efforts to end homelessness. During the event, we'll provide an update on our COVID-19 response, the rehousing system, and host a Q&A discussion about our system's 2020 performance and our goals for 2021. 

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Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority

 

 

2021 Homeless Count Canceled

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on 07 February 2021

The Los Angeles County 2021 Homeless Count, which would normally take place in the last week of January, was canceled by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority due to the convid-19 pandemic. The January 2020 point in time count, the previous year, found 66,436 individuals experiencing homelessness in the county, of whom, 28,852 were in the city of Los Angeles. 9,543 of those were located in Service Planning Area 6 - South Los Angeles including Compton, Paramount, and Lynwood.

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Winter Shelter, October 1, 2020, to March 31, 2021

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on 27 December 2020

Link to full flyer

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Zoom Vigil for Brothers & Sisters who died this year while homeless: Monday, December 21, 3pm-4pm

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on 10 December 2020

SPA6 Homeless Coalition Zoom Vigil

in honor of our Brothers & Sisters who've passed this year while homeless

Monday, December 21, 2020, 3pm-4pm PST

Join the Zoom: https://SPA6ZoomVigil

or call in 1(669)900-9128 Meeting ID: 849-5898-6722 Passcode: 920410

Fathers and Mothers Who Care 8th Annual Thanksgiving Brunch: Thursday, November 26, 1:00 pm

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on 25 November 2020

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January 2021 Homeless Count

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on 14 November 2020

The following are the slides from a November 13, 2020, presentation by Clementina Verjan of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority to a meeting of the SPA 6 Homeless Coaltion on plans for the next annual LA County Homeless Count to be held in late January 2021. Due to the covid-19 virus there are many changes from the procedures of previous counts. Street count teams will be reduced to two per car instead of the previous 3 or 4. People from the same household will be favored. A phone app in place of paper forms will be used to reduce handling.

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City and County Homeless Policy

Los Angeles County Approved Strategies to Combat Homelessness (February 2016)

Both the city and county of Los Angeles in January 2016 produced extensive plans for long-term dealing with homelessness. This is the county's final plan, issued in February 2016. Click on the link below to view the document, a 130-page PDF.

Click here to read LA County's Approved Strategies to Combat Homelessness

 

City of Los Angeles Comprehensive Homeless Strategy, January 2016

The link below is to the Comprehensive Homeless Strategy plan completed in January 2016, on Mayor Eric Garcetti's website. The link goes to the Mayor's brief summary page. The link on that page goes to the full 237 page document. The download for that can be slow and not practical for a smartphone.

Click here for LA's Comprehensive Homeless Strategy document.

Homelessness in South Los Angeles - Marqueece Harris-Dawson (2)

 Following is a position paper on homelessness in South Los Angeles issued in February 2016 by Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Los Angeles City Council member for District 8 in South Los Angeles. He is co-chair of the City Council's Homelessness and Poverty Committee.  We have retained the source notes at the end but they do not hotlink to the main text. A downloadable PDF of this document is available HERE.

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Homelessness in South Los Angeles

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The primary purpose of this paper is to provide a thorough understanding of homelessness in Los Angeles as it pertains to the Eighth City Council District and South Los Angeles more broadly. On January 13, 2016, the City of Los Angeles released a Comprehensive Homeless Strategy detailing over 60 strategies to combat homelessness. The citywide view is sweeping, expansive, and comprehensive, but falls short when detailing the geographic and demographic particularities of South Los Angeles. While I support implementation of all strategies within the Comprehensive Homeless

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LA's First Steps on Plans to End Homelessness

City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana released his office's first quarterly report November 7 on Los Angeles' ambitious new agenda to end homelessness. The most optimistic achievement was the passage of Proposition HHH the next day, committing the city to issue $1.2 billion in bonds to qualified developers to construct 10,000 units of permanent supportive housing over ten years.

For the rest, there are many promising accomplishments, but a few serious warning signs of trouble to come. Santana concedes at the outset that until this year, the city's main investment has been in crisis intervention, "largely relying on funding emergency shelter beds, with no clear path to long-term recovery."

In the short-term, this must still be the government's focus until new housing units begin to come online some years from now.  The immediate priorities are to increase storage facilities, and create mobile showers and safe parking locations. It is just here, however, that the first quarter has been least successful.

Trouble Getting Infrastructure Off the Ground

At this time, there is only one location in the city to store homeless people's possessions. It is downtown in Skid Row. Three new ones were under consideration. The one in San Pedro was soon abandoned due to community opposition. One in CD9 on east Washington Blvd. was dropped because rehab costs were too high. And the third, a city-owned, long-vacant senior center in Venice, was approved, but that led to an uproar from the community. The city is considering some kind of mobile storage as an alternative.

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