East San Gabriel Valley Coalition for the Homeless

[East San Gabriel Valley Coalition for the Homeless @ESGV_Homeless]

@SGVCOG @EveryoneIn_LA @HildaSolis @SupJaniceHahn @kathrynbarger @LAHomeless @USHSNews goals. Identify at risk homeless and work with them to obtain low cost housing, rental assistance, vocation and employment support, credit assistance, health and mental health care and other needed services. #SGVEndingHomelessness

[East San Gabriel Valley Coalition for the Homeless @ESGV_Homeless]

@SGVCOG @EveryoneIn_LA @HildaSolis @SupJaniceHahn @kathrynbarger @LAHomeless @USHSNews Establish smaller year-round shelters limited to accommodate newly homeless men and women and provide them with needed supportive services that will aid in preventing them from becoming chronically homeless. Need to develop realistic & sustainable short as well as longer-term

[East San Gabriel Valley Coalition for the Homeless @ESGV_Homeless]

@SGVCOG @EveryoneIn_LA @HildaSolis @SupJaniceHahn @kathrynbarger @LAHomeless @USHSNews health care and mental health care more easily accessible. Workforce assistance: job skills training, job matching, collaboration with businesses. #SGVEndingHomelessness

[East San Gabriel Valley Coalition for the Homeless @ESGV_Homeless]

@SGVCOG @EveryoneIn_LA @HildaSolis @SupJaniceHahn @kathrynbarger @LAHomeless @USHSNews Offer help with upfront costs of obtaining an apartment, e.g. security deposits, setting up utilities, etc. Create a shared housing/roommate matching program. Explore innovative housing opportunities, e.g. tiny homes or pre-fab structures. Have services such as laundry, showers,

[East San Gabriel Valley Coalition for the Homeless @ESGV_Homeless]

@SGVCOG @EveryoneIn_LA @HildaSolis @SupJaniceHahn @kathrynbarger @LAHomeless @USHSNews Review existing City ordinances that impede progress. Explore opportunities to convert or rehab vacant industrial zones, warehouses, blighted properties such as old motels, etc. into shelter or housing. Provide tax incentives. Increase the number of rental assistance subsidies.

[East San Gabriel Valley Coalition for the Homeless @ESGV_Homeless]

@SGVCOG @EveryoneIn_LA @HildaSolis @SupJaniceHahn @kathrynbarger @LAHomeless @USHSNews society; therefore, they share a social responsibility to participate both financially and in other creative ways, to confront and defeat, to the extent possible, this glaring social ill. #SGVEndingHomelessness

[East San Gabriel Valley Coalition for the Homeless @ESGV_Homeless]

@SGVCOG @EveryoneIn_LA @HildaSolis @SupJaniceHahn @kathrynbarger @LAHomeless @USHSNews potential that exists within the private sector. It is imperative that a far greater effort be made to remind the private sector that the growing cancer of homelessness within our cities and throughout the United States is a problem that will negatively impact all segments of our

[East San Gabriel Valley Coalition for the Homeless @ESGV_Homeless]

@SGVCOG @EveryoneIn_LA @HildaSolis @SupJaniceHahn @kathrynbarger @LAHomeless @USHSNews We believe that the greatest untapped resource currently available to end homelessness, is the private sector. Considering that the four richest families in the United States have a combined net worth exceeding five hundred billion dollars, one can begin to realize the vast

[East San Gabriel Valley Coalition for the Homeless @ESGV_Homeless]

@SGVCOG @EveryoneIn_LA @HildaSolis @SupJaniceHahn @kathrynbarger @LAHomeless @USHSNews at our Emergency Assistance Center, we are unable to expand our services to a larger segment of the homeless population. Because of the established parameters by which Measure H fund are allocated, we have not received Measure H funds. #SGVEndingHomelessness

[East San Gabriel Valley Coalition for the Homeless @ESGV_Homeless]

@SGVCOG @EveryoneIn_LA @HildaSolis @SupJaniceHahn @kathrynbarger @LAHomeless @USHSNews assistance. Last year, we served over 1400 men, women & children. The Winter Shelter Program from Dec.1st. thru March 17th, where last year 1493 homeless men & women received the services listed above plus health, mental health, dental care & haircuts. Due to a scarcity of funds

[East San Gabriel Valley Coalition for the Homeless @ESGV_Homeless]

@SGVCOG @EveryoneIn_LA @HildaSolis @SupJaniceHahn @kathrynbarger @LAHomeless @USHSNews For the benefit of our communities our Emergency Assistance Center provides the fowling services:
A respectful attitude, showers, fresh clothing, hygiene supplies, hot meals & sack lunches, case management, motel vouchers & bridge housing, referrals, food boxes & transportation

[East San Gabriel Valley Coalition for the Homeless @ESGV_Homeless]

@SGVCOG @EveryoneIn_LA @HildaSolis @SupJaniceHahn @kathrynbarger @LAHomeless @USHSNews will be made in the coming years. The various social service and charitable organizations within the SGV must continue to provide the variety of supportive services that allow our homeless sisters and brothers to maintain a livable quality of life. #SGVEndingHomelessness

[East San Gabriel Valley Coalition for the Homeless @ESGV_Homeless]

@SGVCOG @EveryoneIn_LA @HildaSolis @SupJaniceHahn @kathrynbarger @LAHomeless @USHSNews places to accommodate them. Our ability to convince our city councils and their communities that they must be prepared to make the necessary investments in various forms of accommodations within their individual communities, will largely determine the degree of progress that will

[East San Gabriel Valley Coalition for the Homeless @ESGV_Homeless]

@SGVCOG @EveryoneIn_LA @HildaSolis @SupJaniceHahn @kathrynbarger @LAHomeless @USHSNews The first step is for all concerned to recognize and acknowledge the severity of the problem and the substantial investment required to effectively deal with it. One thing we can all agree upon, is that if we are to accomplish removing our homeless from our streets, we must have

[East San Gabriel Valley Coalition for the Homeless @ESGV_Homeless]

@SGVCOG @EveryoneIn_LA @HildaSolis @SupJaniceHahn @kathrynbarger @LAHomeless @USHSNews are also factors in the growing number of homeless individuals and families. Also, are the longstanding issues of mental illness, substance abuse, emancipated youth and previously incarcerated felons who are unable to find work. #SGVEndingHomelessness

[East San Gabriel Valley Coalition for the Homeless @ESGV_Homeless]

@SGVCOG @EveryoneIn_LA @HildaSolis @SupJaniceHahn @kathrynbarger @LAHomeless @USHSNews In our view, nimbyism, the lack of political will and the availability of adequate financial resources are the three greatest challenges to addressing homelessness in the SGV. The high cost of living, the lack of good paying jobs and an older population living on fixed incomes

[East San Gabriel Valley Coalition for the Homeless @ESGV_Homeless]

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