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SPA6 Homeless Coalition

SOUTH LOS ANGELES

SPA6 Homeless Coalition

South Los Angeles

SPA6 Homeless Coalition

South Los Angeles

SPA6 Homeless Coalition

South Los Angeles

SPA6 Homeless Coalition

South Los Angeles

SPA6 Homeless Coalition

South Los Angeles

Homeless Coalition Meetings

Details: on 18 February 2020

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 am to 12:00 pm.

Due to the coronavirus we are not holding meetings in person, but are holding them by remote video (Zoom). Our next meeting will be on Friday, July 9, 2021. It will be held by Zoom from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. Login is posted below. Note that we will use the same login for this and the following 3 monthly meetings, at 10:00 am on the second Friday of each month unless we post a notice of a change of time.

Good Afternoon!

We are looking forward to seeing everyone on Friday (July 9) for our SPA 6 Homeless Coalition Meeting from 10 am to noon. Please see the zoom link below!

We will get updates on the on-going policy, program and community happenings.

See you there,

The SPA 6 Homeless Coalition Steering Committee

Join us through the Zoom login below for the SPA 6 Homeless Coalition Friday, July 9, 2021, monthly meeting, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm

Topic: SPA 6 Homeless Coalition Monthly Meeting
Time: Friday, July 9, 2021 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Every month on the Second Fri, until Aug 13, 2021
Jul 9, 2021 10:00 AM
Aug 13, 2021 10:00 AM

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SPA 6/South Los Angeles Homeless Coalition Meeting Agenda

Friday, July 9, 2021 -- 10 am – 12 pm

The mission of the SPA 6 Homeless Coalition is to reduce, and eventually eliminate, homelessness in Los Angeles County Service Planning Area 6 (SPA6). SPA6 includes South Los Angeles beginning at the 10 Freeway, and includes the cities of Compton, Lynwood, and Paramount. In order to do this, we have adopted the following primary focus areas: (1) Capacity Building. (2) Coalition Building. (3) Advocacy.

*Agenda Items will be moved, as needed, to accommodate availability of the speakers

Welcome/Introductions

Presentation/Discussions:

CoVid 19 Vaccination Clinic Initiative & Current Guidelines
- Department of Health Services
New City Council Ordinance
- Dhakshike Wickrema, Senior Deputy for Homelessness and Housing,

CD 10-City Councilmember Mark Ridley Thomas’ Office

CoC/LAHSA Committees

CoC Committee Report – Cristina Nieto, HOPICS
Ad Hoc Committee on Black People Experiencing Homelessness -Reba Stevens
Lived Experience Advisory Board – Reba Stevens

SPA 6 Coordinated Entry System Reports

HOPICS
CRCD

Policy

Mayor’s Office Homeless Initiatives and Resources
- Sofia Peralta, Director, Office of Homelessness Initiatives
- Matthew Tenchavez, Director, Homelessness Resource Center
National Alliance to End Homelessness Updates and Lobby Days Report- Jerry Jones

LAHSA

Policy and Program Updates - Carlos Amador
EHV and Recovery Rehousing – Marina Genchev

Events and Announcements

“ We are all in this together……..ALWAYS”

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Next Coalition Meeting – August 13 , 2021

Phoenix Hall, 10950 S. Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90059. It is at the back of the parking lot.

LAHSA Documents on Important Changes in HUD Veteran Housing Funding

Details: on 17 November 2017

Below are links to two documents in PDF form issued by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority regarding important changes in HUD’s funding for Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH). The first is a three-page letter dated October 23, 2017, from Peter Lynn, LAHSA’s Executive Director.

The second is a one-page fact sheet on veteran homelessness dated October 2017.

LAHSA: Notice of Policy Development: Housing Protections Under the Violence Against Women Act

Details: on 19 November 2017

The Violence Against Women Act of 2013 (VAWA) and subsequent guidance issued by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) establish new housing protections for individuals participating in HUD-funded housing programs who are survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and/or stalking. In response, LAHSA is in the process of developing a policy for the Los Angeles Continuum of Care, to include protections for survivors of violence in all LAHSA-funded housing programs.

Los Angeles County Homeless Initiative Quarterly Report No. 7, November 9, 2017

Details: on 17 November 2017

This is the seventh quarterly report by the County of Los Angeles Chief Executive Officer, Sachi A. Hamai on the county’s Homeless Initiative recommendations.

On February 9, 2016, the Board of Supervisors (Board) approved the Los Angeles County Homeless Initiative (HI) recommendations, which included 47 Strategies to combat homelessness, and instructed the Chief Executive Office (CEO) to report back to the Board on a quarterly basis regarding the implementation status and outcomes of each Strategy. On December 6, 2016, the Board approved four new strategies as part of the Measure H ordinance. These Strategies are now also included in the CEO’s quarterly reports. This is the seventh quarterly report that the CEO has provided to the Board. The report addresses the implementation status of the 51 Homeless Initiative Strategies with highlights and impact stories, status of Board directives and motions, and other key HI activities.

Click here to read or download the full 43 page PDF of the report.

List of Los Angeles agencies that will help with Immigration problems

Details: on 24 October 2017

We have added to our Resource section a list of agencies that provide legal and other help for immigrants in the Los Angeles area. It was prepared by the Inner City Law Center.

Here is a link to the article

(which also includes a downloadable PDF of this information).

Letter from SPA6 Homeless Coalition in Support of Lorena Plaza Project

Details: on 27 August 2017

August 14, 2017

Chair Jose Huizar and Members of the Planning & Land Use Management Committee (PLUM)
City of Los Angeles
200 N. Spring Street, Room 360
Los Angeles, CA 90012

c/o City Clerk

RE: C.F. 16-0503 – Lorena Plaza project

Dear Chairman Huizar and Members of the PLUM Committee:

We are writing in support of the Lorena Plaza project, 3407 E. First Street, Los Angeles, 90063, and to urge the Planning and Land Use Management Committee (PLUM) to deny the CEQA appeal filed by El Mercado.

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

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.

SPA6 Homeless Coalition

SPA6 Homeless Coalition

SPA6 Homeless Coalition

SPA6 Homeless Coalition

SPA6 Homeless Coalition

SPA6 Homeless Coalition

Phoenix Hall, 10950 S. Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90059. It is at the back of the parking lot.

This is the seventh quarterly report by the County of Los Angeles Chief Executive Officer, Sachi A. Hamai on the county’s Homeless Initiative recommendations.

(which also includes a downloadable PDF of this information).

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Trouble Getting Infrastructure Off the Ground

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