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LA City Council Approves Motion to Improve Homeless Outreach Efforts By City News Service Published April 6, 2021 With funding for additional homeless outreach workers already approved, the Los Angeles City Council today approved a motion to improve the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s outreach program. The motion, which was introduced by Councilwoman Nithya Raman and Councilmen Paul Krekorian and Curren Price, passed 14-0. It will build on the council’s funding to LAHSA for an additional 15 outreach teams to join its existing 200 teams focused on connecting unhoused Angele...

DN Mission Possible's Shelter-in-Place Program Reaches The Hard-To-Reach Daphne Cortese-Lambert collects bags of trash Thursday from those who live in local homeless encampments. Photo: Jessica Cejnar Anthony Hatfield distracted his pup Skipper long enough to put a handful of groceries in an already full backpack. He still juggled a loaf of bread, a tarp and some dog food, but didn’t say no to whatever Daphne Cortese-Lambert and her volunteers at Del Norte Mission Possible offered. “Anything I don’t use I’ll share with other people,” he said on a drizzly Thursday afternoon outside t...

SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Two of the region’s newest elected officials and five civic leaders with experience in housing and homelessness have joined the Regional Task Force on the Homeless’s (RTFH) Continuum of Care (CoC) Advisory Board of Directors. County Supervisor Nora Vargas and San Diego City Council President Pro Tem Stephen Whitburn have assumed the elected official seats on the board, which were recently vacated by County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher and former City Councilmember Chris Ward, respectively. In November 2020, the RTFH separated its board of directors into a policy advisor...

Home Run SHARE Sean Serino was among the first residents to move into Redondo’s first ever temporary homeless shelter on December 28, 2020. Photo by JP Cordero Sean Serino was among the first residents to move into Redondo’s first ever temporary homeless shelter on December 28, 2020. Photo by JP Cordero   Residents began moving into the Beach Cities’ first ever temporary shelter for unhoused people in the early morning hours of December 28, just over a month after it was approved and barely in time to qualify for the coronavirus-related relief funding necessary to pay for it....