It is not humane to let people die on our streets. Organized, urgent, and well-conducted outreach and collaboration with our unhoused neighbors is a critical tool that improves the quality of life for both unhoused and housed people in our communities. We need to...
- Continue building interim housing to get people off the streets so they can restart their lives
- Create more supportive housing for those with continuing challenges
- Expand addiction treatment and mental health services to address the epidemic of untreated addiction and mental illness
- Enforce our laws, so people experiencing homelessness don’t congregate in makeshift camps creating hazards for themselves and their neighbors
Urgent action is crucial. We can’t wait for permanent housing to save lives. A safe place to sleep and access services is the first step toward permanently getting people off the streets.
That’s why I'm opening the fourth Tiny Home Village in District 2, augmenting our two A Bridge Home shelters, our seven Permanent Supportive Housing sites, and our Homeless Services Navigation Center.
The Countywide Homeless Count has found the number of people living unsheltered on the streets of Los Angeles declining for the last two years — declining by 35.6 percent in District 2 in the last year recorded. We expect to receive our 2026 count before summer. I hope to see a further decline when these numbers become available.
We can fight every day to get people off our streets, but this problem will never end if we don't prevent people from falling into homelessness in the first place. This means increasing wages, building more housing, and protecting renters as we recover from one of the most difficult decades in the City’s history.
While serving in the State Assembly, I secured $2.1 million for the San Fernando Valley Mental Health Center. This funding has created a pilot program in the East Valley, enabling social workers and mental health specialists to provide crucial services for the unhoused
These mental health workers have deployed wherever we have removed dangerous and unsanitary structures or accumulations of litter and improperly stored property. As we work to bring the unhoused indoors and provide those with the service we need, we will continue to apply the law whenever necessary to keep dangerous encampments away from schools, parks, daycare and senior centers.