Sweeps and even outreach don't get people into housing. People lose their phones in these sweeps, and shelter waitlists are long (housing waitlists are longer). Sweeps are disconnecting people from housing. Getting contact info for people who are displaced & lose their cell phones isn't a "plan".
We reached out to our City Council office about another encampment that gets swept 1 to 2 times a week. Here's what they had to say:
[O]utreach is provided to this location, with most of them on interim housing waiting list. Outreach teams ... plan to find them should they relocate.
They have talked down on us called us bums and told us that we don't have rights to anything because we live on a public sidewalk."
That's an email we received this week from a neighbor.
"I have been homeless and living in a tent on [REDACTED] for a little over 2 years now .. anytime sanitation has come they have never stored anything of ours they just throw everything away including tents if it's not moved by the time they get here.. they are also very rude and disrespectful.
Group of around 20 people bunched in front of a tree. There is a building and more trees behind the group of people. The picture is bordered with a thick light pink and a thin white line with the text “Join us for outreach!” on the middle top of the photo and “Saturday, 2/28 - 12:00 PM Meet at Immanuel Presbyterian Church - 3300 Wilshire Blvd, LA CA 90010 (Parking lot on Berendo St.)” on the middle bottom of the photo. There is an icon of overlapping purple and red heart with “KTOWN FOR ALL” in white letters centered on the overlapping hearts on the right bottom corner of the photo.
Join us for outreach! We always go over our guidelines, and if you’re new, we’ll make sure you’re in a group with experienced volunteers - all you need to do is show up! We meet in the Immanuel Presbyterian parking lot at 12pm (you can park in the lot!)
See you there!
Lucky for her, the subcontracted eviction lawyers were also missing paperwork-but it took an eviction defense lawyern to find out. Every part of this was waste. Bold leadership takes the vision to build a better system, not just trying to cut out bloat from a truly broken one.
One of our members was nearly evicted because somewhere along a chain of subcontractors, someone failed to file her paperwork with LAHD-the agency that is also her landlord. LAHD subcontracted out management of the building-that agency subcontracted out casework.
This isn't any different from what we see in health insurance: inflated CEO pay, waste & inefficiency, and massive gaps in coverage. But there are CEOs of service providers that make more than the mayor. These private nonprofits aren't subject to the same transparency rules as government either.
A lot of the conversation around this specific grifter misses the point. As long as LA refuses to build its own infrastructure for homeless services, these public-private options are going to lead to fraud, even the ones that are playing by the rules.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Group of around 20 people bunched in front of a tree. There is a building and more trees behind the group of people. The picture is bordered with a thick light pink and a thin white line with the text “Join us for outreach!” on the middle top of the photo and “Saturday, 2/21 - 12:00 PM Meet at Immanuel Presbyterian Church - 3300 Wilshire Blvd, LA CA 90010 (Parking lot on Berendo St.)” on the middle bottom of the photo. There is an icon of overlapping purple and red heart with “KTOWN FOR ALL” in white letters centered on the overlapping hearts on the right bottom corner of the photo.
Join us for outreach! We always go over our guidelines, and if you’re new, we’ll make sure you’re in a group with experienced volunteers - all you need to do is show up! We meet in the Immanuel Presbyterian parking lot at 12pm (you can park in the lot!)
See you there!
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Happy Valentine's Day from me and my community at KTown For All.
Group of around 20 people bunched in front of a tree. There is a building and more trees behind the group of people. The picture is bordered with a thick light pink and a thin white line with the text “Join us for outreach!” on the middle top of the photo and “Saturday, 2/14 - 12:00 PM Meet at Immanuel Presbyterian Church - 3300 Wilshire Blvd, LA CA 90010 (Parking lot on Berendo St.)” on the middle bottom of the photo. There is an icon of overlapping purple and red heart with “KTOWN FOR ALL” in white letters centered on the overlapping hearts on the right bottom corner of the photo.
Join us for outreach! We always go over our guidelines, and if you’re new, we’ll make sure you’re in a group with experienced volunteers - all you need to do is show up! We meet in the Immanuel Presbyterian parking lot at 12pm (you can park in the lot!)
See you there!
L.A. liable for destroying homeless people's property, federal judge rules
these buyouts make a real impact on the community -- financially and emotionally. 👇
if i haven't seen you out in these streets today i better see an open wallet !!!
these are four LA vendor buyout funds i can personally vouch for and encourage you to support
Group of around 20 people bunched in front of a tree. There is a building and more trees behind the group of people. The picture is bordered with a thick light pink and a thin white line with the text “Join us for outreach!” on the middle top of the photo and “Saturday, 1/31 - 12:00 PM Meet at Immanuel Presbyterian Church - 3300 Wilshire Blvd, LA CA 90010 (Parking lot on Berendo St.)” on the middle bottom of the photo. There is an icon of overlapping purple and red heart with “KTOWN FOR ALL” in white letters centered on the overlapping hearts on the right bottom corner of the photo.
Join us for outreach! We always go over our guidelines, and if you’re new, we’ll make sure you’re in a group with experienced volunteers - all you need to do is show up! We meet in the Immanuel Presbyterian parking lot at 12pm (you can park in the lot!)
See you there!
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It lets the federal government pretend it needs to do less than it should be doing. In the meantime, they're not even coming close to funding solutions to the problem they *think* they have.
Alternate methods like sampling, using data from service providers, and developing estimation techniques as suggested in this study would prove what we already know: the PIT count has always been one of the stupidest ways to estimate homelessness.
homelesslaw.org/wp-content/u...
The PIT count's only use is in unlocking (not enough) federal funds. The federal government doesn't provide enough funds for the roughly 600,000 people who are counted as unhoused every winter in America. But that number is an undercount. By a whole lot.
thelalocal.org/neighborhood...
Group of around 20 people bunched in front of a tree. There is a building and more trees behind the group of people. The picture is bordered with a thick light pink and a thin white line with the text “Join us for outreach!” on the middle top of the photo and “Saturday, 1/24 - 12:00 PM Meet at Immanuel Presbyterian Church - 3300 Wilshire Blvd, LA CA 90010 (Parking lot on Berendo St.)” on the middle bottom of the photo. There is an icon of overlapping purple and red heart with “KTOWN FOR ALL” in white letters centered on the overlapping hearts on the right bottom corner of the photo.
Join us for outreach! We always go over our guidelines, and if you’re new, we’ll make sure you’re in a group with experienced volunteers - all you need to do is show up! We meet in the Immanuel Presbyterian parking lot at 12pm (you can park in the lot!)
See you there!
Rather than develop these services "in-house" with oversight, zero profit motive, no overpaid CEOs, and transparency, the city shifts the responsibility and blame to private partners. While not all are intentionally evil, plenty of them are just grifters.
The constant refrain we hear from the city is that there's not enough money for the services we know we need: trash pickup, public bathrooms, and housing. One reason is the city's insistence that the only way to provide services is with public-private partnerships.
marvistavoice.org/arrest-in-23...
If you wanna hook up with a mutual aid org in LA, this is a great one to start with!
Group of around 20 people bunched in front of a tree. There is a building and more trees behind the group of people. The picture is bordered with a thick light pink and a thin white line with the text “Join us for outreach!” on the middle top of the photo and “Saturday, 1/17 - 12:00 PM Meet at Immanuel Presbyterian Church - 3300 Wilshire Blvd, LA CA 90010 (Parking lot on Berendo St.)” on the middle bottom of the photo. There is an icon of overlapping purple and red heart with “KTOWN FOR ALL” in white letters centered on the overlapping hearts on the right bottom corner of the photo.
Join us for outreach! We always go over our guidelines, and if you’re new, we’ll make sure you’re in a group with experienced volunteers - all you need to do is show up! We meet in the Immanuel Presbyterian parking lot at 12pm (you can park in the lot!)
See you there!
Photo ID: Group of 14 people bunched in front of a tree underneath its shade. There are two big rocks in front of the group and a brick building behind them. The picture is bordered with a thick light pink and a thin white line with the text “Join us for outreach!” on the middle top of the photo and “Saturday, 1/10 - 12:00 PM Meet at Immanuel Presbyterian Church - 3300 Wilshire Blvd, LA CA 90010 (Parking lot on Berendo St.)” on the middle bottom of the photo. There is an icon of overlapping purple and red heart with “KTOWN FOR ALL” in white letters centered on the overlapping hearts on the right bottom corner of the photo.
Join us for outreach! We always go over our guidelines, and if you’re new, we’ll make sure you’re in a group with experienced volunteers - all you need to do is show up! We meet in the Immanuel Presbyterian parking lot at 12pm (you can park in the lot!)
See you there!
* Our usual meeting location is unavailable this week so we will instead be meeting at the park near Shatto Recreation Center. There may not be enough parking space in the lot, but the surrounding streets may have space.
Group of around 20 people bunched in front of a tree. There is a building and more trees behind the group of people. The picture is bordered with a thick light pink and a thin white line with the text “Join us for outreach!” on the middle top of the photo and “Saturday, 12/27 - 12:00 PM Meet at Shatto Recreation Center - 3191 4th Street, LA CA 90020” on the middle bottom of the photo. There is an icon of overlapping purple and red heart with “KTOWN FOR ALL” in white letters centered on the overlapping hearts on the right bottom corner of the photo.
Join us for outreach! We always go over our guidelines, and if you’re new we’ll make sure you’re in a group with experienced volunteers - all you need to do is show up! We meet in the park near Shatto Recreation Center* at 12pm, see you there!
Group of around 20 people bunched in front of a tree. There is a building and more trees behind the group of people. The picture is bordered with a thick light pink and a thin white line with the text “Join us for outreach!” on the middle top of the photo and “Saturday, 12/20 - 12:00 PM Meet at Immanuel Presbyterian Church - 3300 Wilshire Blvd, LA CA 90010 (Parking lot on Berendo St.)” on the middle bottom of the photo. There is an icon of overlapping purple and red heart with “KTOWN FOR ALL” in white letters centered on the overlapping hearts on the right bottom corner of the photo.
Join us for outreach! We always go over our guidelines, and if you’re new, we’ll make sure you’re in a group with experienced volunteers - all you need to do is show up! We meet in the Immanuel Presbyterian parking lot at 12pm (you can park in the lot!)
See you there!
