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Homelessness System Change Efforts and Their Results, Los Angeles, 2005-2006 |
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Corporation for Supportive Housing In 2004, the Hilton Foundation awarded the Corporation for Supportive Housing a five-year grant of $8 million to promote changes in city, county, and state systems that would reduce homelessness in Los Angeles County, especially among people with serious mental illness. CSH uses these resources to bring people together, facilitate planning and implementation, provide expert advice, and help span the boundaries of different systems that have long stood separate and apart. We can bring these figures for homelessness supports in LA County into stark contrast by comparing them with similar data from New York City, the only other jurisdiction in the country of roughly the same size (8.1 million versus Los Angeles County's 9.9 million). It has a mayor now in his second term who has long been determined to reduce homelessness by two-thirds before he leaves office and has directed his cabinet officials to do what it takes. As a policy issue, homelessness has barely been on the radar screen for local elected officials and public agencies until the last few years. Receiving the support of the Hilton Foundation in 2004 was in some ways a statement that enough initial movement was visible one year later for the foundation to invest its resources in its home community to give a boost to the "end long-term homelessness" agenda.
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