The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) is the lead agency responsible for completing the Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count. The Count helps LAHSA demonstrate our area's need for housing, shelter and service programs to the federal government and is essential to our efforts to reduce and end homelessness. Many Neighborhood Councils participated in the [...]
Here are some resources on the City-County homelessness strategy, including the 2015-2016 Winter Shelter Locations and Transportation Schedule (attached). Please see the attachment and links below. For the documents from the County (planning process) for the $100 million recommendations: http://priorities.lacounty.gov/homeless-initiative-documents-community-input/ For information about the Winter Shelter Program (including locations): http://documents.lahsa.org/programs/wsp/2015/WSPLocations.pdf (attached above) For the LA [...]
Greetings Neighborhood Councils… The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) has launched the 2016 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count! The 2015 Homeless Count was the largest census in the country, covering 4000 square miles and benefitting from the support of more than 5,500 volunteers. In 2015 the Count discovered that at any given point-in-time approximately [...]
Next week, the 2015 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count will take place for the fifth time since starting in 2005. In gathering census data of how many homeless people we have in Los Angeles, we can better engage homelessness in our area and take care of our fellow Angelenos who need a helping hand. The [...]
Los Angeles has the highest street homeless population in the nation. Every day we see them – men, women and children with no place to call home. We don’t have to accept homelessness as an unsolvable problem. With your help we can end homelessness. 6,000 volunteers are needed January 27-29, 2015. Make a difference in [...]
