Safe Parking LA

Safe Parking LA seeks support for Neighbors for Home, a grassroots community engagement initiative that mobilizes local residents to act around the problem of vehicular homelessness in their own neighborhoods. In partnership with LA’s Neighborhood Councils, lot partners, and other local groups, SPaLA will activate a series of volunteer opportunities to support organizational capacity, promote positive interactions with people who live in their vehicles, and build change-making communities dedicated to solving the problem of homelessness.

The Women’s Safe Parking Program will provide overnight refuge and trauma-informed support for unaccompanied women and women-led households experiencing vehicular homelessness. Operating 365 days a year, the program will offer secure parking, hygiene access, case management, and connections to housing and supportive services. Unsheltered women face heightened risks of violence, exploitation, and health complications, making safe, gender-responsive shelter essential.

Safe Parking LA is excited to relaunch our Neighbors for Home Initiative as Neighbors for Home 2.0, following a disruption by the pandemic in 2020. This revitalized grassroots community engagement program will engage local residents, neighborhood councils, and community groups to address vehicular homelessness through volunteer opportunities, supportive services, and community building. Together, we aim to foster positive interactions, tap into collective resources, and ultimately help our unhoused neighbors find their way back home.

With the support of the LA2050 community, our initiative aims to strengthen our organization's capacity to better serve the LA community by providing livable wages for our frontline workers who are primarily BIPOC folks, some with lived experience. By investing in fair compensation, we will empower our essential staff to continue delivering quality care to the participants in our safe parking program to end homelessness, while also contributing to the movement to create a more sustainable and equitable homelessness response sector.