![]() Initially, they put $1 million into a revolving loan fund and built a bare-bones staff to administer it. ![]() ![]() The Millers decided to focus their intervention narrowly on people who face imminent eviction because of a crisis but have the means to pay their rent going forward. They range from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors pilot program to supplement poor people’s incomes to a UCLA research project analyzing data from county social services agencies to predict who are most likely lose their homes. Various strategies are being tested as solutions. ![]() A confounding question is whom to target: Hundreds of thousands of Angelenos live under extreme rent pressure but only a tiny percentage become homeless. Less than 4% of the sales tax revenue from Measure H goes into prevention programs. Even as city and county outreach succeeded in moving tens of thousands of people from the streets into housing over the past five years, the number of people on the street continued to climb as new people lost housing.Įven so, city and county efforts to prevent homelessness have been limited. After surveying the landscape of existing homeless initiatives, the Millers concluded that they could have the most impact by helping people to hang on to their housing.
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