The tally is done to help determine the amount of federal government funding that will be allocated to LAHSA, and to those various cities, to provide services. The count also serves as a way to edu…
Thousands of volunteers throughout Los Angeles County this week will help quantify, through a census, the scope of homelessness in their communities, by counting how many of their neighbors are unhoused. The count was suspended last year, during the early peaks of the coronavirus pandemic.
“It’s when you really see how much people are struggling,” said Laura Rathbone, who is the directing of a vehicle parking program based in the northeast San Fernando Valley, which is in the city of Los Angeles. “Sometimes when you’re doing the count you’ll see someone you know, who you didn’t know was experiencing homelessness,” she said. “And I think that’s when it’s really eye-opening — to know how it can happen to anybody. Or when you see a mom with kids, sleeping in a car.”
“I think everyone’s going to be like, ‘I had no idea,’ ” Rathbone predicts. “And I think people will want to be more involved, and probably help.”Meanwhile, Los Angeles city has agreed to suspend sanitation department-led enforcement activities that temporarily displace people living on the streets in tents and makeshift dwellings, during the three-day count.
Advocates who oppose such operations reported that they were continuing to take place during the past week. Ongoing cleanups have been reflected on city sanitation schedules.The larger purpose of the count is to determine how much funding local homeless services agencies receive. Every two years, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development requires LAHSA and other similar agencies to do a “point-in-time” count, to reflect the number of unhoused people on a given night.
The stark difference comes despite a dramatic drop in the homeless COVID death rate from the previous winter. According to the county, the death rate in the 2020-21 winter surge among the homeless was 237 per 100,000 —roughly four times the rate of the 2021-22 surge. Torrance is the latest South Bay city to take on its homeless crisis — but their proposed 40-unit tiny home project is still a ways off from completion. Construction officially began on the project in December — but officials just secured funding to purchase and install the Pallet shelters in January.
Baldwin Park on Nov. 20 took dozens of homeless individuals off the street with the opening of Esperanza Villa, a village of 25 tiny homes built to house individuals who were either homeless or on the brink of becoming homeless. The city this week announced it received another grant to build more bridge housing.
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