El Monte Homeless Cave closed

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/05/homeless-driven-from-squatters-camp-along-san-gabriel-river-.html I’m writing from my phone, so I don’t know how the link will come out: it’s a link to LA Now’s article on an opening in freeway supports for the 10 freeway where homeless people have taken shelter.

I am seeing more Homeless

North Hollywood Homeless

Tipper Gore on her homeless friends

I follow http://www.change.org on Twitter ad a few days ago, they posted this wonderful article by Tipper Gore. You remember her, wife of the former VP now Nobel Prize Winner Al . . . Tipper wrote on the http://www.takepart.com blog about her memories of working with residents of the street. Personally, I loved it. Here […]

$$ Omnibus Congress money

Money released for homeless and lowincome housing

LAHSA is right about Homeless dumping

LAHSA was asked about the problem of homeless hospital patients being driven to Skid Row, and left there because they have no homes to return to, in a LA TIMES article . Permanent shelter beds, transitional shelters and low income housing – we need so many more of these facilities. We need them for the […]

Homeless help in the Federal budget!

as quoted from the AP AP) In coming months, the Housing and Urban Development Department will oversee at least a tenfold increase in spending on programs designed to prevent homelessness, officials said Thursday. Tucked within the economic stimulus bill recently signed by President Barack Obama was $1.5 billion to help families pay rent, make security […]

chosing not to work

“I make more money when I don’t work and get unemployment”, he said proudly.

Find a Welfare Worker on Skid Row

find a Welfare worker

Living in your car in LA, on the rise

I have about 120 homeless families on my caseload at any given time. Currently 5 of those families are living in their cars. Some of the families are parked in the driveways of family members and friends, some are on city streets, and one is in a “Denny’s” parking lot. All of these families have […]

saving on Welfaré

A CalWorks participant (welfare recipient) can save unlimited amounts of money for a downpayment on a home or deposit for an apartment or to start a business. CW61 must be reviewed with the EW and the money must be in a seperate untoiched account used specifically for that purpose. It’s now a Senate Bill. It […]