As the weather cools and snow falls across some parts of the U.S., many of us are cuddling up by the fireplace with some cocoa and a warm blanket. However, not everybody has that luxury – millions of people are without homes this winter, but the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation is working to change that.
The Hilton Foundation has announced grants totaling $13 million as part of an initiative launched by the Los Angeles Business Leaders Task Force on Homelessness to end homelessness in Los Angeles by 2015.
Although it may not be a snowy city, being homeless in Los Angeles is as difficult as anywhere else. According to the Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty at the Weingart Center, an estimated 254,000 men, women and children are homeless in Los Angeles County for at least part of the year and approximately 82,000 people are homeless on any given night. Unaccompanied youth are estimated to make up from 4,800 to 10,000 of these, although the average age of the homeless population is 40.
The grants announced by the Hilton Foundation seek to bring those numbers down to zero. They include $9 million to the Corporation for Supportive Housing for the creation of 2,500 permanent housing units; $600,000 to Common Ground to find 4,500 people living on the street or in shelters and provide them with housing; and $750,000 each to Mental Health America in Long Beach, the St. Joseph Center in Venice, Skid Row Housing Trust in Los Angeles and Step Up on Second in Hollywood for local efforts to get people off the streets and into permanent homes.
In addition, the Downtown Women's Center will receive a $330,000 gift to implement Critical Time Intervention, a program that will work to transition eighty chronically homeless women into permanent housing, while the PATH Partners will receive $700,000 to engage faith leaders in Los Angeles County on the problem of homelessness.
"This campaign is a great step forward to eradicating long term homelessness in our home town," said Steven M. Hilton, president and CEO of the Hilton Foundation, "and we are proud to participate as a funder and advocate and to encourage others to join us. Making a difference in the lives of vulnerable people is our core mission and there could be no greater way to fulfill this mandate than to help our neighbors find homes, medical and other services and, most of all, hope."
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