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<\/p>\nOn Thursday morning, L.A. Councilmember Eunisse Hernandez stood at Lacy Street Neighborhood Park in the shadow of the 5 and 110 freeway interchange. Just last year, she said, the Lincoln Heights park and the areas near the freeway were filled with unhoused people. But now, thanks to a $6 million state grant awarded last fall, the park is clear and dozens of people are in temporary and permanent housing.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday we\u2019re here to celebrate that 59 of our neighbors, human beings, finally have a roof over their heads,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The funds were secured by Hernandez from California\u2019s Encampment Resolution Funds, which targeted a 4-mile stretch of the 110 Freeway.<\/p>\n
A long to-do list before housing is secured<\/p>\n
The grant helped pay health and social workers from public and private agencies and nonprofits, including employees with USC\u2019s California Street Collaborative.<\/p>\n
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These workers helped people straighten things out before they moved into housing, like finding IDs, matching housing with disability needs and space for pets.<\/p>\n
That kind of help requires building trust between the worker and the unhoused person, said Caitlin Schwan, director of the California Street Collaborative.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd it takes an investment of resources and a lot of coalitions, a lot of partnerships across street medicine, housing providers, service providers,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
Los Angeles Global Care has been as the primary interim housing provider. It also provides daily meals to those transitioning to housing, help with pets and case management.<\/p>\n
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Rigo Vega was unhoused and lived near the 110 Freeway for four years. <\/p>\n
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\u201cI used to live right here under the bridge for like, four years,\u201d said Rigo Vega, who attended the announcement at the park.<\/p>\n
Outreach workers, he said, helped him get food and clothes, and the paperwork needed to get into housing last November. Now that\u2019s settled him enough for him to set a goal for himself, \u201cto work, to get a job,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Hernandez\u2019s office said the goal is to house 11 more people with the grant funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday morning, L.A. Councilmember Eunisse Hernandez stood at Lacy Street Neighborhood Park in the shadow of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[114669,114670,45533,969,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-260386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-110-encampment","tag-californias-encampment-resolution-funds","tag-eunisses-hernandez","tag-homeless","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}