Mitchell mentioned she has targeted on “urgently scaling confirmed instruments like redirecting funding for vital psychological well being providers whereas introducing revenue applications to assist stabilize working households and small companies.”
Mitchell mentioned she launched a countywide RV encampment pilot program to get unhoused residents out of RVs and into housing, and to assist stop homelessness, co-authored a movement to permit small landlords to recoup unpaid hire.
“Reasonably priced housing preservation and manufacturing should be a high challenge for each policymaker if we’re to cut back homelessness, and we’d like everybody to assist us enhance the inventory of reasonably priced housing within the county,” Mitchell mentioned.
Williams mentioned L.A. County should open extra everlasting supportive housing applications with complete social providers. The county should additionally tackle housing affordability by creating housing subsidy applications to assist low-income households afford their rents, Williams mentioned.
“By implementing structural housing applications with supportive providers for the homeless and low-income households, we are able to scale back the revolving door to homelessness by 60%,” Williams mentioned.
Carlton mentioned that to deal with the wants of an estimated 22,655 unhoused folks within the county with substance use problems, he would push the county to contract with nonprofit organizations to retrofit former hospitals, inns, or shops into 24/7 substance use dysfunction therapy facilities for unhoused residents.
These amenities would supply detox, therapy, job coaching, and different helps “geared toward serving to them reintegrate into society,” Carlton mentioned.
Bradford mentioned she would push to reverse a movement by Mitchell and Supervisor Hilda L. Solis proclaiming L.A. County a “housing first county” and directing county lobbyists to battle any laws in Sacramento that wasn’t housing first. Bradford mentioned she’d additionally push county lobbyists to battle to amend Senate Invoice 1380, a regulation Mitchell authored in 2016, one other housing first effort.
The regulation “affords providers as wanted and requested on a voluntary foundation and doesn’t not make participation in providers obligatory with a view to obtain housing. Program providers needs to be obligatory,” Bradford mentioned, including that partnering with regulation enforcement was one other vital facet to the county’s homeless disaster response.
