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<\/p>\nSixteen people living unsheltered along the Los Angeles River in Long Beach moved into safe interim housing through Los Angeles County\u2019s latest Pathway Home encampment resolution, where they can receive supportive services and other resources to support their transition out of homelessness and into permanent housing. Most moved on October 15 and 16, and two more people got motel rooms the following week. The move was undertaken by Los Angeles County\u2019s Pathway Home team, the city of Long Beach, LAHSA, the nonprofit service organization, PATH, and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have been working for months on this,\u201d said Shaonnie Corella, an outreach coordinator with the city of Long Beach. Unhoused individuals had been living near the river, some under the Anaheim Street, Shoemaker, and Ocean Boulevard bridges. Some were living in RVs. \u201cA lot are already downsizing,\u201d said Corella the day before the encampment resolution, noting that people had begun paring down their belongings in anticipation of a move. \u00a0<\/p>\n
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Melissa with her two dogs, Hank and Chip<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been ready to go,\u201d said Melissa, 41, who was moving with her partner, Carlos, 46. \u00a0They have two dogs, Hank and Chip, but Melissa is still heartbroken over the loss of her dog, Delilah, who disappeared nearly three months ago. They lived under a bridge, sometimes leaving for an errand and coming back to find that their belongings were gone.<\/p>\n
As they got ready to leave, she hoped for a bathtub in the motel room and talked about going back to school. \u201cI can\u2019t really decide between cosmetology or auto mechanics. Maybe I should do both. Then I can have a mechanics shop where you can get your hair done while your car\u2019s getting fixed,\u201d she said with a laugh.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Her partner, Carlos, struggled after losing jobs. He has worked in construction, at a hotel front desk, and as a sous chef in recent years, he said. \u201cI lost everything else\u2014housing, car, little by little.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sixteen people living unsheltered along the Los Angeles River in Long Beach moved into safe interim housing through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132,21854,21855],"class_list":["post-29492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-news-updates","tag-pathway-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29492","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=29492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}