A new three-fold brochure on homeless resources for SPA6 (South Los Angeles County) has just been issued jointly by the Empowerment Congress, Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, and the SA6 Homeless Coalition. Below is a list of the neighborhoods and cities the resources cover, and some broad categories of what they offer. There is a link at the bottom of the article to see or download the full brochure.
These communities and surrounding neighborhoods are within the LA County Service Planning Area 6 (SPA 6):
Baldwin Hills •Compton • Crenshaw
Exposition Park • Florence
Gramercy Park • Hyde Park
Jefferson Park •Ladera Heights
Leimert Park • Lynwood • Paramount
Rosewood • South Los Angeles
South Central • South Park
University Park • Vermont • Watts
West Adams • Willowbrook • Windsor Hills
Contains information on Mental Health resources, Shelters, where to get Showers, Safe Parking, Victims of Domestic Violence. Specific information for Families, Single Adults, and Youth.
Check out the latest issue of the Los Angeles County Homeless Initiative's "From Homelessness to Housing: Measure H Quarterly Update" with updates on the thousands of families and individuals who have been helped through our Countywide movement to combat and prevent homelessness.
This issue includes Measure H Success Stories, recent activities of the Homeless Initiative and its partners, and key implementation updates for Measure H-funded strategies.
About 100 people attended a May 31 invitation-only event outside the PATH (People Assisting the Homeless) offices at 340 N. Madison Avenue where the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority released the results of its 2018 Los Angeles homeless count. Some 8,500 volunteers over three days in January covered every census tract in the county. The results, along with thousands of interviews with homeless people, have been under analysis by statisticians at USC.
For the first time in four years the numbers went down instead of up. The gains were modest - 3% fewer homeless in the county, 5% fewer in the city - but at least the motion was in the right direction.
By now everyone has seen the gross numbers. For the county, the homeless are down from 55,048 in January 2017 to 53,195 in January 2018; for the city, it was a little better, dropping from 38,138 to 31,516. We will dig into the details further on.
SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS TO ASSIST HOMELESS PEOPLE LIVING IN RECREATIONAL VEHICLES; OPTIONS TO CREATE “SAFE PARKING” LOTS FOR CARS AND RECREATIONAL VEHICLES (ITEM NUMBER 32, AGENDA OF JANUARY 30, 2018)
The February 12 Los Angeles Times ran a long article on measures before the City Council to rapidly secure housing for the homeless. A major part of their report focused on a measure to make it easier to convert motels into shared rooms or small apartments. The case they featured as a successful example was a motel on Figueroa in South Los Angeles, in Service Planning Area 6 (SPA6), leased to the First To Serve homeless service agency:
“The onetime motel on Figueroa Street houses dozens of formerly homeless women and children, who sleep in simple rooms furnished with dressers and televisions and eat dinners of chicken enchiladas and chili downstairs.
St. Joseph Center/First To Serve, Broadway Manchester Access Center, 8525 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90003
The SPA6 Homeless Coalition meets usually on the second Friday of every month. Our regular meetings are held from 10:00 to 12:00 pm at the St. Joseph Center/First To Serve offices at 8525 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90003. Quarterly the meetings are held jointly with the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. at a location to be announced.
Our next meeting will be on Friday, December 13, 2019, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm at the St. Joseph Center/First To Serve, Broadway Manchester Access Center, 8525 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90003. There is a parking lot two doors to the north on the same side of the street.
Phoenix Hall, 10950 S. Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90059. It is at the back of the parking lot.
