Los Angeles Homeless Services

$2M More To Provide Homeless With Housing for Health

Sentinel News ServiceJanuary 13, 2016

As El Niño begins to pummel Los Angeles County with winter storms, Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas directed the transfer of an additional $2 million into a program that would quickly take homeless people off the streets and into housing with supportive services. The Board of Supervisors unanimously approved his motion to transfer Second Supervisorial District Year Round funds allocated to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority into the Department of Health Services’ Housing for Health Program. “It is urgent that we move homeless people – particularly women – off the streets and out of harm’s way as El Niño approaches,” Supervisor

Local News

Report: City Needs More Shelter Beds for Winter

City News ServiceJanuary 13, 2016

City and county agencies need to do more to help the thousands of people in the Los Angeles area who lack shelter during this winter’s El Nino storms, the county’s civil grand jury concluded in a report released last week. The panel’s report says plans submitted last fall by the area’s largest cities, including Los Angeles, are “unconscionable and grossly inadequate” in sheltering those who are forced to live on the streets. The grand jury is “very concerned that the 2,772 shelter and surge capacity beds planned by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority is just a fraction of the number necessary to shelter homeless people in severe weather,” the report states.