Political Will
Countywide Strategies
Political Will Initiative Area: Countywide Strategies
Indicators of Community Progress Toward the Goal
GOAL
Secure commitments from local elected and public officials to implement the community plan.
INDICATORS
AlignmentThe countywide strategies to end homelessness reflect Hilton Foundation goals related to ending chronic homelessness. 
FunctionalityPublic agencies and elected officials clearly define and delegate roles and responsibilities. 
SustainabilityElected officials, public agencies, and the public invest in the community strategy to end homelessness.STATUS THROUGH 2018
The County administered planning grants to cities across the County to develop their own local plans to prevent and combat homelessness.The City of LA revised its homeless strategies.
Suitable Progress The community has a robust set of leaders coordinating on the community’s homeless response system.Mayor Garcetti created the Unified Response Center to coordinate the City’s agencies’ response to unsheltered homelessness.Mayor Garcetti created the Mayor’s Office of City Homelessness Initiatives and appointed a Deputy Mayor.LAHSA created the Ad Hoc Committee on Black People Experiencing Homelessness.Rapid Progress Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved Measure H budget for FY 2018–2019.LA City Council members pledged to create 222 units of PSH in each of their districts by July 2020.United Way of Greater Los Angeles launched the Everyone In campaign.Rapid ProgressRECOMMENDATIONS
As programs are scaled up to meet the community's need current City and County leaders will need to education new leaders and organizations on shared goals. Public agencies and elected officials should continue to advocate for and educate the public on solutions to homelessness, such as bridge housing and PSH to help overcome pockets of resistance to siting housing in the community. Elected officials and public agencies should continue to push for further investment in strategies to end homelessness.
Indicators of the Foundation’s Contribution to Community Progress
2018: Limited ImpactDirect EngagementFoundation staff represents the Chronic Homelessness Initiative perspective in the community strategy to end homelessness 2018: Strong ImpactGrant Making PortfolioPolitical Will grantees align public and elected officials around a common vision to end chronic homelessness
Opportunities for Los Angeles
Community Opportunity: Community stakeholders should continue to engage with and educate elected officials and community leaders to maintain their political will in support of PSH as a long-term solution to chronic homelessness, especially as elected leaders must respond to the affordable housing shortage and the scale of unsheltered homelessness across LA County and California.
What to Monitor Next Year
- How will local cities implement their community plans?
- What actions will the City’s Unified Homelessness Response Center and the Mayor’s Office of City Homelessness Initiatives take to address the homeless crisis in the City of LA?
- How will the recommendations put forth by the Ad Hoc Committee on Black People Experiencing Homelessness be implemented across the community?
- How will Measure H and Proposition HHH allocations and spending compare to previous years?
