In 2012, the Department of Health Services in Los Angeles County created the Housing for Health (HFH) initiative, which provides permanent supportive housing (PSH) and rental subsidies to homeless individuals wh
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This tool shows the interim housing, such as shelters, and supportive housing that currently exist and are being developed throughout Los Angeles County. This includes sites under construction as well as in the planning and development phases. Developments can be viewed geographically and in the con...
Building Low-cost Housing We will construct thousands of permanent, low-cost housing units outside of Los Angeles for between $5,000 and $8,000 per unit, including amenities — a fraction of the cost incurred by Los Angeles County to build housing within Los Angeles, which have ranged from...
long-term housing for them," said Juan Navarro, CEO of the nonprofit. "And we need even more beds. We're seeing even bigger demand for treatment and services after the fires."In the weeks since one of the nation'scostliest natural disasters, it's become evident that theLos Angeles wildf...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County leaders announced Monday a lawsuit settlement agreement that commits hundreds of millions of dollars to expand outreach and supportive services for homeless residents, marking the potential end of two years of litig
Three years ago, Los Angeles voters approved a tax hike and $1.2 billion housing bond to make a decade's worth of massive investments to help solve the homeless crisis. That bond money has been committed to build more than half of the 10,000 new housing units planned countywide over the...
A divided Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors adopted a series of recommendations Tuesday aimed at streamlining and improving the response to homelessness, with a majority calling the move a step in the right direction, but two others questioning whether the proposals will have any real impact...
Los Angeles County voters are weighing Measure A, which is also known as the "Homelessness Services and Affordable Housing Ordinance," which if passed would levy a half-cent sales tax to help fund services and housing for homeless residents. Voters previously approved Measure H i...
The Housing First model would be expensive for other locations — a recent estimate put the chronically homeless population in Los Angeles County at about 12,300 — but Walker’s office has received visits from officials from cities in Tennessee and South Carolina. ...