Los Angeles County has launched Pathway Home, a major expansion of its efforts to resolve encampments, with a successful operation in unincorporated Lennox that helped 59 people move inside.<\/p>\n
The Pathway Home encampment resolution program, which includes recreational vehicles or RVs, is just one component of the ongoing, multi-pronged response to the homelessness crisis launched under the emergency declared by the Board of Supervisors in January.<\/p>\n
The program, which will roll out in other communities of LA County in the months ahead, will partner closely with local jurisdictions.<\/p>\n
The first Pathway Home encampment resolution, in unincorporated Lennox, took place from August 9 through August 11 and was conducted in collaboration with the Office of Supervisor Holly Mitchell along with officials serving Lennox and the Cities of Inglewood and Hawthorne.<\/p>\n
This operation focused on a cluster of longstanding encampments \u2014 including one dubbed \u201cThe Dead End\u201d\u2014 beside or beneath the 405 Freeway, near Los Angeles International Airport. In all, 59 people were supported to come indoors, 50 of whom chose to move into a hotel administered through Pathway Home, while nine others entered other forms of interim housing. Pathway Home also supported housing 26 pets, the removal of seven RVs, and the cleanup and removal of tents, trash and other items from the site.<\/p>\n
The launch of Pathway Home comes as the County is also partnering closely and successfully with the City of Los Angeles on its own encampment resolution program, Inside Safe.<\/p>\n
\u201cPathway Home is part of an urgent mobilization that reflects an all-hands-on deck approach to scale up and fast-track proven solutions to reduce unsheltered homelessness,\u201d said Los Angeles County Homeless Initiative Director Cheri Todoroff, whose team within the Chief Executive Office coordinated the operation.<\/p>\n
Supervisors lauded the launch of Pathway Home, which will help people living on the streets come indoors by offering them a more diverse array of immediate options for interim housing along with a comprehensive suite of wraparound services, with the goal of helping them achieve stability and ultimately move into permanent housing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe homelessness crisis requires an urgent and singular focus on getting every person \u2014\u00a0 regardless of how they are living on the streets \u2014 connected to long-term housing and the supportive services they need to stay housed. I am proud that the County\u2019s RV Encampment Pilot is one of the key components of Pathway Home. This is critical for our unincorporated communities that remain heavily impacted by vehicular homelessness,\u201d\u00a0said Supervisor\u00a0Holly J. Mitchell, 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0District<\/strong>. \u201cBy centralizing the County\u2019s homelessness outreach and solutions under one umbrella so key partners across County departments and city jurisdictions are working together with the power of the emergency order, Pathway Home can help us significantly address this crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLos Angeles County is once again demonstrating its steadfast commitment to addressing the crisis on our streets,\u201d said Supervisor\u00a0Hilda L.\u00a0Solis, 1st<\/sup>\u00a0District<\/strong>. \u201cWith Pathway Home, we\u2019re using every tool at our disposal, including emergency powers and Measure H funding, to resolve homeless encampments by offering better alternatives. These include a hotel room they can immediately stay in, supportive services to help them get back on their feet, and rental subsidies to help them afford an apartment of their own. Our local cities and unincorporated communities are crucial to this effort, and I thank them for their partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOur declaration of a state of emergency regarding homelessness allows us to move faster and cut through red tape to bring services and shelter to our unhoused neighbors,\u201d said Supervisor\u00a0Lindsey P. Horvath, 3rd District<\/strong>. \u201cPathway Home expands on the County\u2019s work to provide coordinated care \u2014 including mental health and substance use supports \u2014 for unincorporated communities and smaller cities. We are focused on delivering the full breadth of intensive services available in the County \u2014 made possible through Measure H \u2014 to unhoused residents so that they can heal and transform their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis new strategy needs to build on what we have learned from both Project Roomkey and Inside Safe so that we can more effectively address encampments in neighborhoods across the County outside of the City of Los Angeles,” said Board Chair and Supervisor\u00a0Janice Hahn, 4th<\/sup>\u00a0District<\/strong>. \u201cMany encampments have become tight-knit communities and we are going to have a better chance at convincing people to come inside if we can bring entire encampments inside together.\u201d<\/p>\n “One of Pathway Home’s biggest strengths is its ability to harness the power of multiple entities so that they work in unison,\u201d said Supervisor\u00a0Kathryn Barger, 5th<\/sup>\u00a0District<\/strong>. \u201cHelping individuals who are homeless requires careful planning and a wide array of supportive services along with housing options. I’m glad to see that those components are all part of Pathway Home’s program design. Helping our homeless living on our streets isn’t easy. It takes persistence and consistency. As I’ve said all along, the best approaches apply collaborative and coordinated efforts. Pathway Home will be an example of this.”<\/p>\n In addition to the Office of Supervisor Mitchell, unincorporated Lennox, and the Cities of Inglewood and Hawthorne, the County\u2019s partners in the first Pathway Home encampment resolution included the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA); the County Departments of Health Services, Mental Health, Public Works, Sheriff, and Animal Care and Control; the nonprofit providers Catholic Charities – St. Margaret\u2019s Center, Mental Health America LA, Harbor Interfaith, St. Joseph Center, and PATH; and the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and California Highway Patrol (CHP).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Los Angeles County has launched Pathway...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59428,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59427\/revisions\/59428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}