Rapid Re-Housing Programs

• First 5 LA - Supportive Housing For Homeless Families Fund (Capital Development)

  The Los Angeles County Children and Families First - Proposition 10 Commission (First 5 LA) designated the LACDA to act as technical adviser and program administrator for its Supportive Housing for Homeless Families Fund to provide permanent supportive housing and related services for families that are homeless or at-risk of homelessness, that have had involvement with the child welfare system, and that include children aged prenatal to five years. Currently, supportive service funds are being provided to the following capital development projects: 

  - Whittier Supportive Housing Apartments (Developer: East LA Community Corporations)
  - Cedar Ridge Apartments (Developer: Insite Development, LLC)
  - Vermont Manzanita Apartments (Developer: West Hollywood Community Development Corporation)
  - Mar Vista Union Apartments (Developer: National Community Renaissance of California)
  - Beverly Commonwealth Apartments (Developer: A Community of Friends)

• Homeless Prevention Initiative (HPI)

  On December 1, 2015, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved the allocation of $3 million of Homeless Prevention Initiative (HPI) funds to the Los Angeles County Development Authority (LACDA) in order to extend rapid re-housing services for homeless families with children (0-17 years old). Based on the results of the 2015 Homeless Count, contracts were awarded to the following service providers:

  SPA 1 – Antelope Valley Domestic Violence Council
  SPA 2 – LA Family Housing
  SPA 3 – Volunteers of America Los Angeles
  SPA 4 – PATH
  SPA 5 – Upward Bound House
  SPA 6 – Special Services for Groups
  SPA 7 – The Whole Child
  SPA 8 – Interval House

• DCFS - Family Reunification Housing Subsidy

  On February 9, 2016, the Board of Supervisors approved the allocation of $3 Million for Strategy B6 – Family Reunification Housing Subsidy (FRHS) Program.  This program provides rapid re-housing and case management services to families in the child welfare system where the parents’ homelessness is the sole barrier to the return of the children.  Based on results of a  Request for Proposals, contracts were awarded to the following service providers:

  SPA 1 – Antelope Valley Domestic Violence Council
  SPA 2 – Volunteers of America Los Angeles
  SPA 3 – Volunteers of America Los Angeles
  SPA 4 – Volunteers of America Los Angeles
  SPA 5 – St. Joseph Center
  SPA 6 – Special Services for Groups
  SPA 7 – The Whole Child
  SPA 8 – Harbor Interfaith