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South Los Angeles

SPA6 Homeless Coalition

South Los Angeles

SPA6 Homeless Coalition

South Los Angeles

SPA6 Homeless Coalition

South Los Angeles

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Free Little House for Your Backyard If You Will Rent It to the Homeless or Near Homeless

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on 10 April 2021

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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Safe Parking in CD15 Starting March 1st, 2021

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on 22 March 2021

Covid-19 vaccines for veterans, Wednesday, March 24, 9 am to 1 pm

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on 19 March 2021

State of the Homeless Town Hall: March 18, 2021

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on 26 February 2021

Registration is Now Open

Thursday, March 18, 2021, 
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm 

 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. 

Register for our town hall

Submit your questions for the town hall

Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority

 

 

2021 Homeless Count Canceled

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on 07 February 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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Zoom Vigil for Brothers & Sisters who died this year while homeless: Monday, December 21, 3pm-4pm

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on 10 December 2020

SPA6 Homeless Coalition Zoom Vigil

in honor of our Brothers & Sisters who've passed this year while homeless

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

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City and County Homeless Policy

LAHSA, City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles

 

The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), the City of Los Angeles, and the County of Los Angeles are having community input sessions on the how the State's Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) Grant Program funds can be utilized.

This program, now in its third round of funding, is designed to provide resources to: (1) each Continuum of Care; (2) each of the 55 counties; and (3) the State's 13 largest cities. Locally, the $1 billion allocation includes:

LA CoC: $84.2 million
LA County: $82.3 million
LA City: $143.6 million

Uses of the funding are quite broad. Please see pages 15-16 of the NOFA for more details.



Learn more about HHAP

View the HHAP Round 3 Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA)

RSVP for the Tuesday, March 15th Feedback Session from 9:00-10:30 am

RSVP for the Wednesday, March 23rd Feedback Session from 5:30-7:00 pm

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Measure H Strategies

There is still time to give input on the future of Measure H strategies. At the direction of the Board of Supervisors, the County Homeless Initiative is reassessing its strategies for addressing and preventing homelessness. It is also inviting public input on the updated strategies.

  • Online written comment portal

Updates on the strategy reassessment process may be found at https://homeless.lacounty.gov/community-strategies/ .

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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