Home For Good Report: Broad Support to End Homelessness, But More Needed
Home for Good L.A., a plan by the Los Angeles Business Leaders Task Force to end chronic and veteran homelessness by 2016, released its Spring 2011 progress report today, which found that that while the plan to end homelessness enjoys broad support, much more cooperation is necessary for the effort to achieve its goals. Read the report:
http://www.homeforgoodla.org/Home_For_Good_Final_Progress_Report.pdf
A total of 186 chronically homeless individuals – one of the core constituencies that the Home for Good L.A. plan is meant to address – were housed during the three months since the plan was announced., by St. Joseph Center, Skid Row Housing Trust, Housing Works, Mental Health America of Los Angeles, Ocean Park Community Center, A Community of Friends, PATH Ventures, PATH, Gettlove, New Image, and L.A. Family Housing. Of those, 49 are in new permanent supportive housing developments, 71 are in scattered site units, and 66 are in turnover units. Much more needs to be done, notes Renee White Fraser, PhD, Task Force Co-Chair.
The report also announced an April summit that will bring together regional housing officials and officials from the federal government and the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness to help overcome bureaucratic obstacles to developing permanent supportive housing.
