Leveraging powers under the state of emergency on homelessness declared by the Board of Supervisors in January 2023, Los Angeles County has launched Pathway Home, a major expansion of its ongoing efforts to resolve encampments countywide, including recreational vehicles, in partnership with local jurisdictions and unincorporated communities.
With Pathway Home, the County will reduce unsheltered homelessness in specific communities by helping people living on the streets come indoors, receive supportive services they need to achieve housing stability, and ultimately move into permanent housing.
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Following the completion of a Pathway Home encampment resolution, data will be collected, reconciled, and posted online. Please allow 72 – 96 hours for updates to occur. Data on Individuals Permanently Housed is updated quarterly.
Pathway Home formally launched on August 9, 2023.
The below data are current as of April 4, 2024.
This Pathway Home dashboard excludes data from our encampment resolution partnership with the City of Los Angeles.
Total Encampment
Resolutions
0
Individuals Moved into
Interim Housing
0
Recreational Vehicles
(RVs) Removed
0
Individuals
Permanently Housed
0
A Pathway to Permanent Housing
Pathway Home draws on lessons from previous multi-jurisdictional emergency housing efforts, such as Project Roomkey and the City of LA’s Inside Safe Initiative. The County is mobilizing and coordinating an all-hands-on-deck approach that offers people a diverse suite of interim housing options and comprehensive services to end their homelessness.
Encampment Resolution
With the support of Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, Department of Mental Health and Housing for Health outreach teams, and community partners, unhoused encampment residents are offered immediate interim housing. Though the decision to leave the streets and go indoors is voluntary, residents are offered a credible pathway to permanent housing.
Diversified Interim Housing
Encampment residents who make the decision to enter housing are offered interim housing at a range of locations, including a designated local motel, where they have their own private and personal room to begin their pathway to permanent housing.
Connection to Services
Once stabilized in interim housing, residents are met with a robust array of services from County departments offering everything from immigration services, life skills, onsite case management, to benefits enrollment, mental health services and more.
Housing Navigation
Pathway Home residents are also offered specialized housing navigation services—helping them reach stable and secure housing.
Home
Using Measure H funding, the County is increasing the permanent housing pathways available to participants, helping them move from interim to permanent housing.
A Multipronged Approach to Bringing People Indoors
With Pathway Home, the County will use its emergency powers and continue to work with our invaluable local service providers, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, and other jurisdictional partners to expand, enhance and expedite:
Encampment Outreach
The number of specialized teams from the LA County Departments of Mental Health, Health Services, Public Health and other agencies – as well as from trusted partners and community organizations – to work intensively with people who have the most complex physical and behavioral health needs.
Housing
A diverse array of interim housing at non-congregate hotels and available shelters that people can move into immediately while being matched to rental subsidies, benefits, and other assistance to secure permanent housing. The County will also continue efforts to expand the number of permanent housing units, such as acquiring and refurbishing motels and hotels under Homekey.
Supportive Services
Supportive services that clients both want and need at both interim and permanent housing, which can include physical and behavioral healthcare, substance use disorder treatment, and ensuring they are receiving their entitled benefits such as healthcare and subsidized housing.
How LA County Selects Encampment Resolution Sites
Across LA County’s 5 districts, there are hundreds of encampments that deserve to be prioritized for a resolution that puts people on a path to permanent housing stability. So how do we prioritize scarce resources in an equitable way? Sites are selected according to:
Encampments whose residents are members of demographic groups that have been disproportionately impacted by homelessness and poverty.
Sites in communities which have been disproportionately impacted by homelessness and poverty.
The size and scale of the encampment.
Availability of interim and permanent housing resources in the community or ability to quickly add these resources nearby.
The potential for elevated harm to encampment residents and neighboring communities from fires, flash floods, or other hazards.
The strength of existing trusted relationships between outreach partners and encampment residents.
Pathway Home is possible because of Measure H, a voter-approved ¼-cent sales tax that enabled the County’s homeless services system to grow exponentially over the last six years. Since Measure H passed in 2017, the County has housed 90,500 people – about the population of Santa Monica – sheltered 124,000 people and prevented 22,000 people from becoming homeless.