Family Stabilization Program

Affordable housing and homelessness

San Gabriel Valley

Expand existing project, program, or initiative (expanding and continuing ongoing, successful work)

We serve no and low-income households experiencing homelessness or high risk for homelessness. 10% are children and 25% seniors. Seniors requesting assistance have doubled over the last decade. The 2024 PIT count showed SPA 3 has 4,843 homeless people. The economic impacts of inflation, high living costs, especially rents, and low-paying jobs are leaving many families extremely vulnerable to homelessness. We receive an average of 100 calls a week needing shelter; rental assistance requests have more than doubled with no signs of slowing although funding sources for this assistance are decreasing. Households experiencing homelessness often need help with those first move-in costs, i.e. security deposit, last month rent, in order to stabilize while those at-risk of falling into homelessness need help making what they have stretch after an emergency such as a car repair, lay-off, or health issue. We aim to stabilize households and address their impediments to remaining housed long-term.

Rapid services are designed to empower homeless and near homeless families to move into or maintain safe, stable housing and self-sufficiency.
Rapid Re-Housing assists unhoused clients by providing housing (through short/medium-term rental assistance typically about 6 months; linking them to appropriate resources, including employment resources; assisting them in finding and securing permanent housing and providing accountability so clients can increase income and maintain safe, stable housing and independent living.
Homeless Prevention Rental Assistance helps low-income families in danger of losing their housing due to a 1-time emergency to stay in their homes and avoid homelessness through provision of a month’s rental assistance paid directly to their landlord.
Families have an intake interview to gather family information and determine the type and amount of assistance needed. Once in housing, all families participate in case management focused on the development and execution of an individual action plan to help them become and/or remain self-sufficient. The case manager assists the household in coordinating mainstream services as needed, addressing issues that may be impediments to housing (i.e. credit history, arrears, debt consolidation and legal issues); and provides education and referrals to employment, financial management, mental health services, and other services to assist them on the road to self-sufficiency.

Our housing programs are designed to help alleviate the homeless crisis in Los Angeles County. Our Rental Assistance program will allow more LA County households at high-risk of losing their housing due to temporary challenges to avoid homelessness and stay in their homes, while case management and referrals assist them to sustain their housing beyond program exit, so that fewer LA residents will become homeless again.
More LA County residents who participate in the Rapid Rehousing program will become housed, remain in the their homes, and not become homeless again. Therefore, less strain will be put on LA County homeless resources to work with the same families more than once.