People Assisting the Homeless, among the state's largest nonprofits working to end homelessness, announced today that it has received nearly $1 million in grants to increase awareness of its Los Angeles-based LeaseUp program.
Los Angeles County’s annual homeless count is a civic ritual bringing thousands of volunteers together in a common cause. It is also a reckoning with the shortcomings of all that’s been done to salve the county’s most perplexing human crisis.
So its cancellation this year due to the risk of spreading the coronavirus has had a multifaceted fallout a loss of civic engagement, uncertainty over how much the COVID-19 pandemic has added to homelessness and, possibly most consequential, the potential loss of federal dollars that would be triggered by a higher count.
But for those who see sharp and timely data as a keystone in the fight against homelessness, the hiatus has created an opportunity to reimagine a process that is inherently blunt and slow.
By City News Service
Feb 4, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - People Assisting the Homeless, among the state s largest nonprofits working to end homelessness, announced today that it has received nearly $1 million in grants to increase awareness of its Los Angeles-based LeaseUp program.
LeaseUp launched three years ago with the support of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority enables property owners with vacant units to connect with service providers like PATH and with prospective renters. The program helps transition formerly homeless people into vacant units, benefiting renters and owners alike. Since 2018, LeaseUp said it has secured more than 4,000 units of subsidized rental units from more than 600 property owners and managers for Angelenos either experiencing or at risk of homelessness.