What are the lessons from the homelessness program profiled in The Times' 'Street Within' series? Stakeholders and others offer their views.
How do you respond to complaints that the former encampment residents have made problems worse in their new neighborhood?
Once clients began to be housed, there were the further delays for some who were not housed in the two apartment buildings. ... All of this just made the resentment and fear worse for those still waiting, and they got frantic when we had to redo income paperwork because it had expired.Advertisement The regional deployment of 30 teams will allow for daily and weekly service to many encampments. This will mean access to expanded services, such as regular trash collection at high-density encampments, removal of hazardous materials that pose health and safety risks and the use of mobile hygiene stations.Police Officer Jerry Ballesteros, left, speaks with Big Mama outside her tent before a sanitation cleanup on Broadway Place.is a senior lead officer with the Los Angeles Police Department.
What distinguishes these buildings and their designs from housing projects that the city developed in years past? Survival on the streets — or in historically oppressed communities — is reliant on masking vulnerability. Case managers are faced with the big task of creating a space of non-judgment within which people feel safe sharing their vulnerabilities. If we are lucky enough to be trusted in that way, we are able to focus on strengths and challenges. From there, we help them become good neighbors and tenants and develop independent living skills.
The majority of people who just made the one-year anniversary of their move-in date are making great efforts to change their behavior. It has been a humbling journey for all of us, but along the way we have been able to change many lives.managing director of homeless initiatives for the United Way of Greater Los Angeles, was one of the architects of Encampment to Home.Our system’s ability today to help someone secure housing is nearly unprecedented.
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