Los Angeles homeless services providers say new funding shifts from the Trump administration are coming at a time when efforts to lower the number of people experiencing homelessness in the region are already facing difficult cuts.<\/p>\n
Under the Rowan Vansleve, president of Hope The Mission, said L.A.\u2019s homeless numbers could spike as current funding runs out and providers await the result of new funding applications. <\/p>\n \u201cIt could leave the most vulnerable \u2014 like people with disabilities or serious health issues, mental health issues \u2014 left out, which is really scary,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Ryan Smith, president and CEO of the St Joseph Center, said the federal cuts come amid \u201ctectonic\u201d shifts for L.A.\u2019s homeless services system. Funding from \u201cThis is a perfect storm of real challenges we’re seeing,\u201d Smith said. \u201cIncreased need for housing, for mutual aid, for the types of services that we get to do every day, but a lack of resources to make that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n At
\n changes rolled out this week<\/a>
\n , federal funding through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development \u2014 known as HUD \u2014 will be shifted away from \u201chousing-first\u201d strategies that aim to get unhoused people into permanent housing and moved toward efforts that will first require participants to undergo drug treatment or seek work.<\/p>\n
\n voter-approved Measure A<\/a>
\n is replacing previous county funding, and the region\u2019s lead homeless services agency
\n is being wound down<\/a>
\n in favor of a new county homelessness department.<\/p>\n
\n last count<\/a>
\n , more than 72,000 people are experiencing homelessness across L.A. County. Resources for many,
\n including families<\/a>
\n , have been stretched thin or exhausted, threatening to reverse what officials describe as progress toward reducing those numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles homeless services providers say new funding shifts from the Trump administration are coming at a time…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":379525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,7164,64972,109292,69424,2961,224,5337,4352],"class_list":{"0":"post-379524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-federal-funding-cuts","11":"tag-homelessness-in-l-a","12":"tag-housing-first","13":"tag-hud","14":"tag-la","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-trump-administration"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115550902401198040","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}