California has awarded Los Angeles County’s Homeless Initiative a $51.5-million grant geared toward serving to homeless folks alongside the 105 Freeway and close by riverbeds entry housing and providers over the following three years.
The county introduced that its Pathway Dwelling encampment program will use the grant cash to maneuver near 600 folks into interim and everlasting housing. Moreover, this system will proceed to help the almost 600 presently housed since its launch in August 2023.
It goals to focus on one of many largest clusters of camps within the county, stretching from West Athens to Norwalk.
L.A. County collaborated with the Los Angeles Homeless Companies Authority (LAHSA) and Encampment Decision Funds (ERF) when making use of for funding.
“The folks of L.A. County need to see progress,” county Supervisor Janice Hahn stated in a launch. “That is the type of technique we have to double down on, and with this new state funding, we will deliver a whole bunch of individuals inside who’ve been residing in sprawling encampments alongside the 105 Freeway.”
LAHSA and L.A. County have been leveraging the county’s emergency declaration to handle the homelessness disaster by way of interventions like Pathway Dwelling, in accordance with LAHSA Govt Director Va Lecia Adams Kellum.
Mixed with $16 million in current Measure H and native sources, the Homeless Initiative plans to conduct Pathway Dwelling operations, specializing in the unhoused folks residing in tents, makeshift shelters and RVs within the space the place the 105 intersects with the Los Angeles and San Gabriel rivers.
“This cash, together with the collaboration we’re seeing on the native degree, is important to the continued success of L.A. County’s Pathway Dwelling program,” county Supervisor Holly Mitchell stated within the April launch. “We’re eradicating extra disabled RVs and, most significantly, urgently working to supply housing and stability to our neighbors experiencing homelessness.”
This system will use the funds to safe interim housing, corresponding to motel rooms, and to grasp lease everlasting housing. It would additionally cowl rental subsidies, housing navigation, case administration, life abilities improvement and different providers.
Since its introduction in August, Pathway Dwelling has helped 562 members transfer into interim housing and 95 into everlasting housing, in accordance with the county. This system has additionally eliminated 302 RVs from public roadways.
A number of communities can be affected, together with West Athens, Willowbrook, Downey, Norwalk, South Gate, Lynwood, Santa Fe Springs and South Los Angeles, together with the areas surrounding a number of L.A. Metro stations.
A spokesperson for the Homeless Initiative acknowledged that the county is presently creating a timeline for operations.
