{"id":59669,"date":"2023-08-29T09:59:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T16:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=59669"},"modified":"2023-08-29T09:59:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T16:59:11","slug":"los-angeles-county-successfully-launches-pathway-home-for-rv-encampments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=59669","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles County Successfully Launches Pathway Home for RV Encampments"},"content":{"rendered":"

58 people housed and 30 RVs taken off the streets in East Gardena<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Los Angeles, CA (August 29, 2023)<\/strong> – Los Angeles County\u2019s new Pathway Home<\/a>\u00a0program to resolve encampments, including recreational vehicles (RVs), successfully placed \u00a058 people into interim housing \u00a0\u2013 including \u00a0families with children \u2013 and removed 30 dilapidated RVs being used as makeshift dwellings on the streets of unincorporated East Gardena bordering West Rancho Dominguez.<\/p>\n

This latest operation raises the total number of people brought into hotels and motels up to 108 since Pathway Home launched on August 9th. Meanwhile, the County\u2019s RV-focused operations have taken 48 RVs off the streets, including the latest tally from Pathway Home.<\/p>\n

Pathway Home is a critical component of the County\u2019s multi-pronged response to the homelessness emergency declared by the Board of Supervisors earlier this year. Leveraging\u00a0emergency powers<\/a>, partnerships with local jurisdictions, and\u00a0Measure H<\/a>\u00a0funding, Pathway Home helps people in encampments come indoors by offering them a hotel or motel room or other type of immediately available interim housing, along with a comprehensive suite of supportive services that can help them achieve stability and ultimately move into permanent housing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is LA County government in action,\u201d said Supervisor Holly Mitchell, who, with Supervisor Kathryn Barger, authored the\u00a0motion<\/a>\u00a0to establish the pilot program that became the foundation of Pathway Home\u2019s RV encampment resolution protocol. \u201cEnding homelessness, especially for people living in RVs, requires collaboration with residents, multiple government departments, municipalities, and community partners. The launch of Pathway Home proves we can do it. By building on our established best practices and ongoing outreach efforts, Pathway Home creates an infrastructure for every entity to quickly work together in fulfilling its unique role in helping to end this crisis. We cannot do this without Measure H funding and a sustained urgency for getting every resident off the street and into permanent housing. I look forward to bringing this program to every encampment in the 2nd District and throughout Los Angeles County.\u201d<\/p>\n

East Gardena and West Rancho Dominguez have among the highest concentrations of RV encampments countywide. The Pathway Home operation that ran from August 22 through August 24 focused on several streets in a busy industrial area, helping 58 individuals, including seven families with children ranging from infants to teenagers, enter interim housing along with 20 pets and service animals. Pathway Home also removed 30 unsafe, inoperable, and otherwise unlivable RVs from the site, towing them to an impound lot for dismantling or other disposition, with the owner\u2019s consent. Following a comprehensive cleanup, the County is taking steps to prevent the site from being reoccupied.<\/p>\n

\u201cRV encampments cannot be resolved by simply posting \u2018No Parking\u2019 signs,\u201d said Cheri Todoroff, executive director of Los Angeles County Homeless Initiative within the Chief Executive Office, which is leading Pathway Home. \u201cIn East Gardena and West Rancho Dominguez, the County mobilized an all-hands-on-deck response and assembled a package of resources that offered people a way out of the streets and into housing with services.\u201d<\/p>\n

The County Homeless Initiative incorporated the RV pilot into Pathway Home to scale it up and fast-track it using emergency powers and other resources. In East Gardena and West Rancho Dominguez, outreach efforts involved partnerships among the County Sheriff\u2019s Department\u2019s Homeless Outreach Services Team (LASD-HOST), the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), St Joseph Center’s Vehicular Homeless Outreach Program (VHOP), and SSG-HOPICS. The County Departments of Public Works, Health Services, Mental Health, Public Health, Fire, and Animal Care and Control also supported the operation, along with the California Department of Motor Vehicles.<\/p>\n

This was the second Pathway Home operation overall, but the first to focus on housing people in RVs. The County\u2019s earlier RV-focused operations, under the RV pilot, removed several burned and abandoned RVs from public roadways. The first Pathway Home operation in Lennox on August 9 through August 11 brought 50 people inside, mostly from tents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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