HSC - Item 4C - Attachment C - LA County Homeless Initiative Budget FY 2023-24COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES HOMELESS INIATIVE
FY 2023-24 BUDGET
Four weeks after declaring a local emergency on homelessness, the Board of
Supervisors on February 7, 2023, unanimously approved a $609.7 million budget
for the Los Angeles County Homeless Initiative for the fiscal year 2023-24, the
largest investment in any given year to date to prevent and address
homelessness.
This budget will help fund a heightened focus on three key missions for the
County in collaboration with cities and other local partners:
• Reducing encampments to bring unsheltered people indoors
• Increasing interim and permanent housing placements
• Ramping up mental health and substance use disorder services for people
experiencing homelessness
In addition to the $609.7 million budget funded by 2023 -24 Measure H and
state Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention (HHAP) grants, the Board
simultaneously approved an additional $76.9 million to expand ho using and
services that the County provides in collaboration with local cities, as well as for
innovative new programs.
The Draft FY 2023-24 Homeless Initiative Funding Recommendations do not
encompass all the County’s investments to address and prevent h omelessness
but represents a significant portion.
FY 2023-24 Budget Highlights
The $609.7 million represents an additional $61.8 million over last year’s
allocation of $547.8 million, an increase of 11%. It includes funding for:
• Wraparound supportive services for 22,130 permanent supportive housing
(PSH) units, expanding the total inventory by 4,630 units, the County’s largest
ever year-over-year increase. PSH serves people who have the most complex
needs, including chronic medical and/or behavioral health conditions.
• More than $60 million in time-limited rental subsidies to quickly house people
who have recently become homeless and offer them services until they can
gradually take on the rent themselves.
• 5,029 interim housing beds to bring people indoors from encampments as
quickly as possible. This is in addition to about 20,000 beds funded by LAHSA,
local jurisdictions, and other County programs overseen by the Departments
of Health Services, Mental Health, and Public Health, among others.
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• Increased homelessness prevention measures, including a 10-fold increase in
funding for “problem solving,” which helps people identify viable temporary or
permanent housing and other resources.
• A 40% increase in funding for programs to help people gain sta bility as they
secure housing. These can include services to help them secure benefits
they’re eligible for, as well as employment and income support.
• The plan to reduce homelessness also relies on deepening collaboration with
local jurisdictions, including the County’s 88 cities and local Councils of
Governments (COGs). This budget includes $25.5 million to work with local
jurisdictions to resolve encampments and co-invest in housing.
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Additional Investments:
In addition to the FY 2023-24 budget of $609.7 million, the Board also
approved $76.9 million to fund:
• A newly established ongoing Local Solutions Fund (LSF) that can be tapped by
cities and COGs to help people move out of encampments and into housing in
collaboration with the County. This year’s allocation is $20 million.
• An additional $5 million for the Cities and COGs Interim Housing Fund
(CCOGIHS), which builds on an existing $10 million investment. Last year’s
CCOGIHS allocation has already been awarded to seven projects so far to
fund supportive services at interim housing.
• The Skid Row Action Plan, which aims to comprehensively address the needs
of residents in Skid Row, includes interim and permanent housing, behavioral
health and substance use treatment services, and more.
• The “Every Woman Housed” program, which is specifically designed to end
homelessness for women and families residing on Skid Row.
• The RV Encampment program, which is committed to annually assist 300
people living in recreational vehicles to find safer housing solutions and to
dismantle inoperable RVs.
• Specialized outreach to people camped in high-severity fire zones in
unincorporated areas of the County.