{"id":439188,"date":"2025-12-11T03:15:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/439188\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T03:15:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:15:22","slug":"city-council-district-7s-rv-to-home-project-will-expand-citywide-after-it-housed-nearly-300-people-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/439188\/","title":{"rendered":"City Council District 7\u2019s RV-to-Home project will expand citywide after it housed nearly 300 people \u2013 Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles officials are preparing to expand a San Fernando Valley program that has quietly become a key strategy for helping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/2025\/04\/10\/la-leaders-tout-proposed-bill-to-address-rvs-on-city-streets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">people living in recreational vehicles<\/a> move into housing.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Los Angeles City Councilmember Monica Rodriguez announced that her RV-to-Home initiative is on track to house nearly 300 participants \u2013 and remove about 150 RVs from the streets of Council District 7 by the end of December. This milestone marks significant growth for a model that began as a small pilot in the northeast Valley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a really remarkable moment that we are now expanding this pilot, this example, this model across the city \u2013 for it to be replicated, to do so in a manner that respects taxpayer dollars,\u201d Rodriguez said.<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cUltimately, that\u2019s what has failed, in my opinion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/2024\/04\/12\/city-of-la-removes-50-plus-homeless-rvs-now-locals-face-huge-parking-fees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in other models<\/a>. And we\u2019re here to prove that we can do it better. We can do it with greater efficiency, and we can do it in a way that not only respects taxpayer dollars, but helps to fulfill the commitments of so many.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul class=\"mng-gallery-initialized mng-gallery-slider\">\n<li data-index=\"1\" class=\"mng-ge mng-gallery-active\" id=\"mng-ge-0\" aria-hidden=\"false\" tabindex=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kim Olsen, executive director of West Valley Homes Yes! (WVHY),...\" class=\"size-article_inline\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LDN-L-RV-TO-HOME-1211-2.jpg\"\/>\n<p>Kim Olsen, executive director of West Valley Homes Yes! (WVHY), a nonprofit that helped design and implement the RV-to-Home model, speaks at a press conference at Los Angeles City Hall Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (Photo by Teresa Liu, LA Daily News\/SCNG).\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-index=\"2\" class=\"mng-ge\" id=\"mng-ge-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Los Angeles City Councilmember Monica Rodriguez speaks at a press...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LDN-L-RV-TO-HOME-1211-1.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LDN-L-RV-TO-HOME-1211-1.jpg\"\/>\n<p>Los Angeles City Councilmember Monica Rodriguez speaks at a press onference Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, at City Hall announcing that the RV-to-Home program in Council District 7 is expected to house its 300th participant by the end of the month. (Photo by Teresa Liu, LA Daily News\/SCNG).\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 2<\/p>\n<p>Kim Olsen, executive director of West Valley Homes Yes! (WVHY), a nonprofit that helped design and implement the RV-to-Home model, speaks at a press conference at Los Angeles City Hall Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (Photo by Teresa Liu, LA Daily News\/SCNG).\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Launched in 2022, RV-to-Home provides targeted outreach to people living in RVs and offers practical help with vehicle issues, paperwork, repairs and storage, along with incentives for those who agree to relinquish their RVs and accept housing.<\/p>\n<p>Developed in partnership with nonprofit West Valley Homes Yes, the model has since become the city\u2019s template for addressing the fast-growing population of Angelenos living in RVs. Rodriguez said the program began with a $350,000 grant from the Hilton Foundation and later benefited from a $5 million state Encampment Resolution Grant that supported broader encampment-response work in Pacoima.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came just a week after the City Council formally <a href=\"https:\/\/cityclerk.lacity.org\/lacityclerkconnect\/index.cfm?fa=ccfi.viewrecord&amp;cfnumber=22-1313\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">approved<\/a> a list of <a href=\"https:\/\/cityclerk.lacity.org\/onlinedocs\/2022\/22-1313_rpt_cao_10-02-25.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority-authorized providers<\/a> who will replicate the program across Los Angeles, marking the first major step toward citywide implementation.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez said the pilot succeeded because outreach teams built trust with RV dwellers and connected them to the right housing and services, addressing a population that for years was considered difficult to reach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHistorically, I had been told, as a council member who commenced this work many years ago, that individuals that were residing in RVs didn\u2019t identify themselves as being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/tag\/homeless\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">homeless<\/a>,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd in fact, nothing could be further from the truth. These individuals require consistent relationship development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That trust-building became the foundation of the model West Valley Homes Yes helped design.<\/p>\n<p>Kim Olsen, the nonprofit\u2019s executive director, said long-held assumptions about RV residents \u2014 particularly that they didn\u2019t want housing or support\u2014proved wrong once outreach teams adopted a different approach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI came into this work and challenged that notion, and we turned it upside down,\u201d Olsen said. \u201cWe know now that with the right program and with the right approach and protocols that these folks do want to give up these RVs, they do want to move into housing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of them is Yolanda Zapata, who was living in an RV near San Fernando Road when West Valley Homes Yes employees approached her. At the time, she said, she wasn\u2019t sure whether to trust the offer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt took a little bit of convincing,\u201d she said. \u201cFrom the prior ones that I\u2019ve seen, they didn\u2019t follow through, so I wasn\u2019t sure if it was going to happen, or if they were just telling me stuff, just to get my RV. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>Zapata eventually agreed to turn in her RV in exchange for moving into an apartment in Sylmar through a Section 8 voucher.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has worked out beautifully,\u201d Zapata said. \u201cI have my own apartment now. And ever since I\u2019ve been there, I\u2019ve always given back. I\u2019m always very grateful for them, because without them, who knows where I\u2019d be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said trust remains the biggest barrier for people still living in RVs. \u201cWhen people don\u2019t care, you don\u2019t want to follow them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The program\u2019s outcomes helped shape a new citywide \u201cScope of Required Services,\u201d adopted by LAHSA, which standardizes how outreach teams will respond to vehicular homelessness. Eleven providers were approved to implement the model across the city.<\/p>\n<p>City officials have not yet released a timeline for when the newly approved providers will begin operating citywide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles officials are preparing to expand a San Fernando Valley program that has quietly become a key&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":439189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,9619,7265,2961,728,224,13252,6080,5337,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-439188","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-homeless","11":"tag-homelessness","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-city-council","16":"tag-los-angeles-county","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115698763890915557","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439188","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=439188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}