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Helping the Homeless During a Natural Disaster

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on 18 December 2019

This graphic guide was produced by Eastern Kentucky University's emergency management program. It contains many good suggestions for homeless service agencies and individuals for providing aid to homeless persons during a natural disaster. Their statistics are a little dated, from the 2017 homeless count, and some of the organizations they suggest contacting do not have local Los Angeles chapters, but the general advice is useful.

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A Bridge Home Shelter Opens in Watts

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on 14 November 2019

 

Men's sleeping tent, Watts Bridge Home shelter

More than 200 people jammed the courtyard for the opening of the new A Bridge Home Shelter in Watts November 13. Mayor Eric Garcetti addressed the crowd, along with Joe Buscaino, LA City Councilman for the area, in CD 15, and other dignitaries. The Mayor said this shelter, at 2316 E. Imperial Highway, is the ninth to be completed out of a planned 26. Each of the city’s 15 council districts is ordered to build at least one of these new generation, more humane, bridge housing shelters.

A November chart on the Mayor’s website (copy below) lists 8 of the new shelters completed of 25 pledged. Mayor Garcetti reported that there are actually 9 of 26 finished.

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Resources for Homeless People with Pets

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on 07 November 2019

Research on Homeless People With Pets

While we often think that homeless people seldom have pets because of not having a real home to provide for their pets, this is typically not the case. In fact, many people become homeless because they would prefer to be homeless with their pet than in a home without them.

Providing their pet with love and care often gives them a feeling of normalcy that they wouldn’t otherwise have under those circumstances. As long as the person is able to keep their pet well-fed, cared for, groomed and healthy, there is no reason why the two shouldn’t be allowed to stay together.

Many homeless state that their pet took care of them as much as they took care of the pet. Some even go so far as to say that their pets gave them a reason for living. These are the very reasons why it’s so important to provide the large number of homeless people every opportunity possible to keep their pets with them or provide them with temporary shelter.

Links to Resources for Homeless People with Pets from 365 Pet Insurance

LAHSA Video on 2019 Homeless Count

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on 08 June 2019

LAHSA has asked us to post the Facebook video link below about the 2019 Homeless Count, with their introductory comments:

 

Every year, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) compiles and analyzes the data that you, our dedicated volunteers, collected about the number of homeless residents in our community. We provide analysis and data to help build better solutions and, hopefully, a better tomorrow for everyone.

We invite you to watch this video about the results of the 2019 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count. It discusses homelessness in Los Angeles County, what is being done to end it, and what still must be done.

 

Click Here To Watch

To learn more about the Count and the data collected, please use the following links:

2019 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count Press Release

2019 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count Presentation

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Ways Faith Communities Can Help the Homeless

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on 26 January 2019

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Measure H Funding Opportunities

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on 26 January 2019

Current and prospective homeless service providers: Here is information on how to apply for a contract with a Los Angeles County department or the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) for a share in the Measure H funding for expanding homeless services in LA County.

A downloadable PDF of this information is available at the bottom of the article.

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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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