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Oct 4, 2023 · In a Florida boom town, builders and homeless services providers fret: ‘We can’t be L.A.’. Jacksonville, Fla., has a good track record for moving homeless people off the streets. But as the ...
Current Interim Housing. This map shows where existing shelters and other forms of interim housing are located as of October 2023. These locations provide people experiencing homelessness with a safe, warm place to sleep accompanied with services to help them secure permanent housing. There are currently 484 sites Countywide with 17,010 beds ...
Jun 6, 2019 · Homeless people gather on the streets of Skid Row near downtown Los Angeles on March 1. A lack of affordable housing in the city is the primary factor driving the spike in homelessness, according ...
- What Is A Continuum of Care?
- Who Put LAHSA in Charge?
- Where Does LAHSA Get Its Funding
- Who Are Lahsa’S 'Bosses'?
- The Homeless Count
- Lahsa’S Homeless Rehousing Outreach Teams
- Is LAHSA The Best Way Forward?
- What Does LAHSA Say?
LAHSA is the lead agency in the Los Angeles Continuum of Care — a consolidated system meant to guide and track people experiencing homelessness through housing and services. Services include outreach, intake and assessment, emergency shelters, transitional housing and permanent or supportive housing. Because Los Angeles is the largest urban county ...
California state law requires that the county of Los Angeles distribute money for the welfare program known as General Relief. But according to a report by the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy, it was difficult to enroll in the program because the county required identification and a residential address — something many unhoused people lac...
When LAHSA was created in 1993, the city and county were each supposed to fund the agency with roughly $2.5 million a year to pay for homeless programs and services, according to the Luskin report. For fiscal year 2022, LAHSA coordinates and manages $649.1 million annually in federal, state, county and city funds. Nearly $326.1 million of LAHSA’s f...
LAHSA takes direction from lots of people since the Los Angeles region lacks centralized governance.
LAHSA is probably most known for carrying out a count of people experiencing homelessness, which it has done annually since 2005. The counts are a snapshot of homelessness on one day and do not include the cities of Glendale, Pasadena or Long Beach. Volunteers are used to count both the unsheltered and sheltered unhoused populations. The 2021 unshe...
LAHSA has more than 850 people in 240 teams across government agencies, along with dozens of nonprofits to do outreach. The county’s Department of Health Services Housing for Health unit uses Measure H to fund 70 multi-disciplinary teams specializing in mental health, substance abuse and emergency response, while the Department of Mental Health’s H...
Nury Martinez, President, Los Angeles City Council; Councilmember, District 6 Martinez is not shy about her scrutiny of LAHSA. She became city council presidentin January 2020, and one of her first acts was to introduce a motion questioning whether LAHSA was still an effective model for addressing the needs of people experiencing homelessness. Mart...
LAHSA currently has two acting executive co-directors: Kristina Dixon and Molly Rysman, after Heidi Marston, LAHSA’s previous executive director, resigned in April 2022. A permanent replacement has yet to be named. According to a statement from LAHSA, Rysman and Dixon bring decades of programmatic, policy, and finance experience from the government...
- Ethan Ward
- Former Unhoused Communities Reporter
Jun 29, 2023 · The homeless count for Los Angeles County is in, and officials say the numbers are discouraging. The annual point-in-time count released Thursday by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority ...
Jan 23, 2024 · The 2023 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count revealed a 9% year-over-year increase in homelessness in the county, and a 10% rise in the city. The data showed 75,518 people are homeless in the ...
Mar 7, 2024 · This map provides an overview of existing Project Homekey (PHK) sites. PHK is an innovative partnership between Los Angeles County, City of Los Angeles, other cities, and the State of California to purchase and rehabilitate hotels and motels and convert them into permanent, long-term housing for people experiencing homelessness.
