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Oct 3
HUD Awards $23 Million to Renew Support to 22 Local HIV-AIDS Housing Programs
Cross-posted from HUD Press Room
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on August 29 announced $23 million to assist more than 1,700 low-income persons living with HIV/AIDS and their families annually over a three-year period. The funding announced today is offered through HUD's Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS Program (HOPWA) and will renew HUD's support of ...
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Aug 17
7,400 LA Homeless Now In Permanent Housing Through Measure H, Officials Say
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – More than 7,400 homeless people in Los Angeles County have attained permanent housing thanks to Measure H, according to a report released Friday.
About 7,448 people are in permanent housing since Measure H began in July 2017, according to numbers from the L.A. County Homeless Initiative. Of those, 2,200 got into permanent housing in the past three ...
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Aug 14
L.A. looks at former museum and factory sites for downtown homeless shelters
“Skid row is the result of years of neglect and legal decisions,” said City Councilman Jose Huizar. “We have to be creative.”
Mayor Eric Garcetti has called for a new homeless shelter in every council district by the end of the year to accommodate 23,000 residents who live outdoors. Officials are considering more than two dozen potential sites for new shelters ...
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Aug 1
New LA County website streamlines requesting help for the homeless
As homelessness has spread throughout Los Angeles County, online communities have sprouted up on Facebook, Nextdoor and other websites in which people express alarm and dismay, as well as frustration over not seeing more improvement.
Sandy Capps, a Sunland-Tujunga resident who does outreach with several homeless individuals in her neighborhood, said a common response to homelessness is to “complain that there’s ...
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Jul 26
Lawsuit demands L.A. eliminate 'pocket veto' on homeless housing
In Los Angeles, local lawmakers can quietly block affordable and homeless housing in their districts by withholding a required letter.
Now, a community group is going to court to demand the city eliminate that “pocket veto.”
The lawsuit, filed Thursday by the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, denounces the requirement as “an illegal, unnecessary, arbitrary, and discriminatory barrier to the construction ...
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Jul 24
Pasadena Explores Idea of Converting Hotel, Motel Properties into Affordable Housing Sites
Pasadena is checking out the idea of converting hotels and motels into affordable housing for low-income residents.
The City’s Department of Planning and Community Development will present the concept and research about how it might work to the Planning Commission on Wednesday evening.
Besides benefiting low-income renters, allowing the conversion of older hotels and motels into refurbished affordable housing could offer an ...
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Jun 27
Californians face November decision on $2-billion spending plan for homeless housing
Californians will decide in November whether to borrow $2 billion to fund new housing for homeless residents.
Gov. Jerry Brown authorized the ballot measure Wednesday when he signed the state’s annual budget and related legislation. The measure would draw funding from dollars generated by Proposition 63, a 1% income tax surcharge on millionaires passed in 2004 that funds mental health services. ...
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Jun 15
In LA, 5 percent of newly housed residents are already homeless again
With new funding trickling in from ballot measures H and HHH, Los Angeles County service providers have helped 11,370 homeless residents find permanent housing between July 2017 and March 2018.
But the city’s homeless services agency reports that 547 of those people—nearly 5 percent—are already homeless again.
“It's very discouraging,” says John Maceri, director of nonprofit The People Concern. “Hours and hours ...
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Jun 1
There are fewer homeless people in L.A. County — but the problem remains grim and unacceptable
For the first time in four years, the number of homeless people in Los Angeles County has decreased. It went down by just a modest 3% (and 5% in just the city of L.A.), but that is still a significant reversal of the shocking double-digit increases of recent years.
The dip, reported in the official 2018 “homeless count,” was welcome news. ...
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May 31
Homelessness dips in L.A. and countywide, but Garcetti warns 'a real challenge' still remains
After three years of precipitous increases, homelessness dipped slightly this year, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority reported Thursday, providing a hopeful sign that new money flowing into housing and services is having an effect.
But in releasing results of the 2018 count, officials also warned that the number of people falling into homelessness for the first time increased, holding back the ...
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