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In July, Hermosa Beach hosted its first Housing Initiative Court, which gives homeless individuals facing non-violent misdemeanor charges or municipal code violations an opportunity to have their charges waived. “I do think some of our cities really are pioneers,” Chu said. These include the opening and expanding tiny home villages and homeless courts in cities such as Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach and Torrance. It’s not easy because there is a lot of fear of helping those who are homeless.”Ĭhu attributed the drop in homelessness to a combination of pandemic-era initiatives - Project Roomkey, CARES Act funding, eviction moratoriums - and the South Bay’s aggressive efforts to address homelessness. “It validates all the late hours we put into advocating for these solutions. “It feels good,” said Ronson Chu, senior project manager for Homeless Services in the South Bay Cities Council of Governments, reacting to the homeless count data. Increased shelter capacity has helped decrease the number of people living on the streets in the South Bay, Hark Dietz said, but there remains a shortage of permanent housing, which is necessary to keep people off the streets in the long term. “I think what we’ve been seeing,” said Jennifer Hark Dietz, CEO of People Assisting the Homeless, “is that the investment in interim housing and outreach is really working.” Part of the regional reduction in homelessness, Hayslet said, is because four interim housing sites, operated by Harbor Interfaith, have opened since March 2020. “It was exciting to see that all the efforts of addressing homelessness was showing progress in reducing the numbers of people in crisis,” said Tahia Hayslet, executive director of Harbor Interfaith Services. South Bay homeless service providers said they were thrilled to see the South Bay’s numbers trend downwards, since many officials expected to see an overall rise because of the pandemic and its economic fallout. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which verified the numbers. Processing the numbers then took a lumbering six months as LAHSA coordinated with the U.S. The updated data has been long awaited by local residents, politicians and homeless service providers alike.

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