Posts by McCain Denise
L.A. Built a Tiny-House Village for Homeless Residents, and Some Aren’t So Sure About It
03 tiny homes have opened for local homeless residents in Alexandria Park. This is one of many tiny home villages slated to serve as a bridge housing solution to LA’s homeless crisis. Is this a good solution for all?
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California Roars Back: Governor Newsom Announces Historic $12 Billion Package to Confront the Homelessness Crisis
Governor Newsom’s $100 billion California Comeback Plan proposes largest increase for homeless housing in California history, creating over 46,000 new units and helping hundreds of thousands of homeless Californians Investments for new programs to clea…
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Disruptions to the 2021 PiT Count: Working to Fill Data Gaps
Homeless services systems will be sorting through the impacts of the pandemic for some time to come. Disruptions to the 2021 Point-in-Time (PiT) Count are a part of the story: the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) sanctioned […]
The post Disruptions to the 2021 PiT Count: Working to Fill Data Gaps appeared first on National Alliance to End Homelessness.
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Congress Wants To Set Up One-Stop Shops To Help Ex-Inmates Stay Out Of Prison
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., a former prosecutor, is part of a group of lawmakers relaunching an effort to support newly released ex-prisoners.; Credit: Tasos Katopodis/Pool/Getty Images
Claudia Grisales | NPRIn an effort to reduce crime among form…
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HUD Revokes Trump Rule Allowing Transgender Discrimination In Homeless Shelters
The Biden administration has withdrawn the proposed rule, which would have allowed single-sex shelters to turn away transgender people.
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WIN What I Need Mobile app now serves SENIORS!
NEW! Senior Services! The WIN What I Need app has expanded to add supportive services just for struggling Seniors! Seniors in need of helpful services can now easily search WIN to find Senior Services. All Senior Services are marked with the new “Senior Only ” icon.
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Technology, Social Justice, Information Access & WIN
A powerful social equity tool, the WIN What I Need mobile app breaks information barriers that too often restrict underserved populations from learning about and accessing helpful services. Trusted access to information and services is the first step out of poverty. Cell phones and mobile app’s meet a direct service need of the homeless- access to essential information about supportive services.
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New Name for OCLA. We are now OUR COMMUNITY LA!
New Name– Same Mission! Our Children LA is now Our Community LA – Since we launched the WIN What I Need mobile app in 2015, we have expanded to serve Everyone- youth, families and adults -even seniors! We changed our name to better reflect the broad community we serve. Note :our new website: oclawin.org. Please bookmark it and visit us regularly!
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COVID Hits LA’s Homeless Population
The homeless population is having its own alarming surge in COVID cases. And 60% of those cases are in shelters of all kinds — from vast emergency shelters to the smaller-scale ones created under L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti’s A Bridge Home program. Nowhere a homeless person goes is completely protected from the virus these days.
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Governor Newsom Issues Proclamation Declaring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 1.15.21
SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom today issued a proclamation declaring January 15, 2021, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the State of California. The text of the proclamation can be found here and a copy is below: ###
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