Four weeks after Los Angeles County officials declared a local emergency on homelessness, the board of supervisors unanimously approved a $609.7 million budget for the Los Angeles County Homeless Initiative for fiscal year 2023 – 2024. The budget is intended to help reduce homeless encampments, increase interim/permanent housing and increase mental health services for people who are experiencing homelessness, according ...

Dozens of volunteers teamed up Tuesday night to participate in the city’s annual homeless count to provide an update on the number of homeless people in Santa Clarita.  Volunteers donned bright yellow safety vests Tuesday while driving around their assigned territories in an effort to contact the homeless population living in Santa Clarita. “When I first heard about it I ...

Recently, Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger announced that she has allocated millions of dollars to increase homeless outreach services across the Fifth District, including Santa Clarita.  In an effort to respond to homelessness, L.A. County Supervisor Barger announced Monday that she has directed $2.3 million from discretionary funds to increase homeless outreach services in areas in the Fifth District, ...

This week, Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger responded to the Board of Supervisors’ recent approval of $532,613,000 in homelessness funding. The L.A. County Board of Supervisors’ approval of over $500 million in funding for homelessness was responded to this week by Supervisor Barger. “We’ve dedicated a lot of our time, attention, and resources to address the homelessness crisis,” Supervisor ...

After many months conducting a study of the governance of homelessness in Los Angeles County, the Blue-Ribbon Commission on Homelessness (BRCH) called their findings “unacceptable” and are calling for reform. In response to a motion introduced by Supervisors Kathryn Barger, Fifth District and Hilda L. Solis, First District and approved by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in July ...

On Monday, Bridge to Home Homeless Services held its groundbreaking ceremony for the organization’s new shelter on Drayton Street in Newhall. Bridge to Home’s groundbreaking ceremony was held this week for its new Drayton Street shelter, with many City of Santa Clarita officials in attendance. “We’re very grateful for the support of the City of Santa Clarita, so thank you ...

Bridge to Home is excited to break ground on a new, permanent homeless shelter in the Santa Clarita Valley next month, officials announced Monday. This crucial project has been a long-time coming and will make an immense impact on the lives of those experiencing homelessness in the Santa Clarita Valley, officials said. “This project has truly been a community effort,” ...

The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority is seeking volunteers for the 2022 Santa Clarita Valley homeless count. Officials and volunteers are expected to conduct the annual 2022 homeless count January 25-27, the first since 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic that canceled the count in 2021. Nearly 200 volunteers are sought to identify and count the homeless population in the ...

Next month, the Bridge to Home homeless shelter is slated to hold their annual ‘Soup for the Soul’ virtual fundraising event, and tickets for the event are on sale now. On Saturday, Dec. 4, the Soup for the Soul yearly fundraising event will be held to raise money for the Bridge to Home homeless shelter. “Viewers from across the nation ...

On Monday, Family Promise of Santa Clarita held a groundbreaking ceremony for the organization’s new resource center and housing units. This week, the groundbreaking of Family Promise of Santa Clarita’s new resource center and housing units was held by the organization on an open plot of land in the 23600 block of Newhall Avenue in Newhall, with several notable speakers ...