Stay Housed LA & LACAHSA
New Strategies for Keeping People Housed
Panelists
Mike Dennis
Liberty Hill Foundation
Senior Director of Housing Justice
Tommy Newman
Becky Dennison
Los Angeles County Affordable
Housing Solutions Agency
Chief of Staff
Jessica Prieto
Liberty Hill Foundation
Senior Manager, Programs
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
Housing Justice Policy Manager
Cynthia Strathmann
Strategic Actions for a Just Economy
Executive Director
Greg Bonett
Public Counsel
Senior Policy Counsel,
Community Development Project
What's at Stake
Advocates need…
Tools
Resources
apability
Liberty Hill’s Housing Justice partnerships
Coalitions & Advocacy
Public private partnerships
grantmaking/fundraising
More than 50,000 people depended on services paid for by Measure H, which would expire in 2027.
LA County needed roughly 500,000 units of affordable housing.
Key Coalitions:
• Essential to make this a citizen’s initiative to reduce the margin for victory to 50+1
• Required major investment in signature gathering, but proved to be worth it
• Gathered more than 400,000 signatures; 25,000 volunteer collected signatures from 53 unique organizations
Stay Housed LA: Homelessness Prevention
5 years of Legal services, outreach, education, tenant navigation
2,345,921 Tenants Reached via Virtual/In Person
31,664 Tenants Provided Legal Assistance Limited + Full 10,381 Tenants Represented in Court 90% success rate
2,043 Free Workshops Available in over 14 languages
Steady annual increase in full scope & tenant navigation services (in-depth 1:1 support that empowers tenants in long term)
LACAHSA: Homelessness Prevention
Preservation, Production, and Ownership (PPO)
Countywide pressures: 88 cities, 88 problems
Renter Protection and Homelessness Prevention (RPHP)
Opportunities for aligned funding between ULA and Measure A
Questions?
