Latest Updates from the SPA6 Homeless Coalition
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We appreciate the participation, collaboration and interest in our fight of addressing homelessness in SPA 6 (and in all of LA).
Below are some of the links and resources promised. More to come.
Have a great week.
The SPA 6 Homeless Coalition Steering Committee
California State Budget Reports
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Here are links to 2 documents from Sacramento on the California State budget. Both are downloadable PDFs. The first is the State Assembly Budget Committee's recommended budget for the coming fiscal year. The second is the State government’s summary of the requested budget for the state’s Home and Community Based Services.
Home- and Community-Based Services (HCBS) are types of person-centered care delivered in the home and community. A variety of health and human services can be provided in this way. HCBS programs address the needs of people with functional limitations who need assistance with everyday activities.
CONTINUE READINGMeasure J Spending Recommendations
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On November 3, 2020, the voters of Los Angeles County approved Measure J which dedicated no less than ten percent of the County’s locally generated unrestricted funding to address the disproportionate impact of racial injustice through community investments such as youth development, job training, small business development, supportive housing services and alternatives to incarceration.
Measure J Year One Spend Plan (pdf)
Since these spending recommendations were issued a Los Angeles court has rule Measure J unconstitutional on the grounds that it preempts the budget authority of the County Board of Supervisors and the decision is being appealed:
LAHSA: Opportunities for Advancing Racial Equity
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The 2019 Report and Recommendations of The Ad Hoc Committee on Black People Experiencing Homelessness detailed the necessary actions to advance equity and eliminate racial disparities impacting Black people experiencing homelessness across Los Angeles County. Included in the report was a call to action for Los Angeles Homeless Service Authority (LAHSA) to thoughtfully examine the drivers of inequitable outcomes (including practices and policies) within the homeless system and to set a course as an agency in advancing racial equity.
CONTINUE READINGJudge Carter’s Decision and Order in LA Alliance for Human Rights v. City of LA
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On April 20, 2021, Judge David Carter issued a Decision and Order in LA Alliance for Human Rights et al. v. City of Los Angeles, LA County, et al.[1], the case challenging the city and county’s failure to adequately address homelessness in LA. The judge issued a preliminary injunction, ordering the city and county of LA to both report back to the Court on numerous financial issues and to take a range of actions, especially to offer either shelter or housing to currently unhoused individuals living in Skid Row.
CONTINUE READINGLA Times Editorial Deplores Failure of City and County Governments to Cover Costs or Pay Sufficient Wages for Homeless Service Providers
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Editorial: Service providers get homeless people off the streets and into housing. Pay them what they need
By The Times Editorial Board, May 10, 2021
In the struggle to help homeless people move off the street, service providers — the entities that supply them food, guidance and other crucial forms of support — are the ones on the front lines. Their staff are the outreach workers who go to encampments and underpasses, and who seek out people slumped on sidewalks in plain view, huddled in the brush out of sight or living in cars. It can take days, weeks, even months to earn the trust of homeless individuals inured to street life and suspicious of anyone who wants to move them to an unfamiliar locale. Even as the pandemic raged in the past year, outreach workers were the ones who never stopped toiling in the streets.
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