The Back Home Initiative will build you a free small backyard house (an Auxiliary Dwelling Unit) if you will sign a 10-year contract to rent it to people who are homeless or about to become homeless. You have your choice of a studio, a one bedroom, or a two bedroom. Details below.
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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.
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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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
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.
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.
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Homelessness in South Los Angeles
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
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.
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.