The most important resource for locating housing is Los Angeles County’s Coordinated Entry System (CES). Instituted in 2014, phone operators direct people experiencing homelessness countywide in all 8 Service Planning Areas to the nearest Access Point, where they are interviewed and entered into a single countywide database that ranks them according to need and matches them to available housing and services that best fit their needs. There are now systems that serve Adults, Families with Children, and Youth.

The flyer below, which includes a map, gives location, address, phone number, and hours for the 8 CES Access Centers in Service Planning Area 6 (South Los Angeles from the 10 Freeway down to and including Compton and Lynwood)

We also list below various agencies in SPA6 that offer short and longer term housing. These may or may not have openings at any given time. Our listings for shelters and transitional housing include Board and Care facilities, usually in single family homes, and some for-fee transitional housing. Both of these types charge something to live there. Many people experiencing homelessness have some kind of small income such as SSI. Be cautious about enrolling in the for-fee housing. If you are placed there by the Coordinated Entry System you probably will retain your place in the system for permanent housing. But if you take housing with your own money you will not be considered homeless and will lose your place in the CES. So consult a CES case worker in making this decision.