LA Reps Visit SF To See Project Homeless Connect

Last week, representatives from Los Angeles County (CAO’s office), LAHSA, City of Santa Monica, City of Los Angeles, and local providers like PATH, visited San Francisco to participate in their Project Homeless Connect.

This unique program that mobilizes thousands of SF volunteers to go on the streets of SF and help people who are homeless connect with services. Click here. Philip Mangano, the executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness says, “What is happening here is unprecedented—there is nothing else like it in our country.” The ICH is encouraging cities around the country to begin similar programs.

Last Thursday, was the sixth Project Homeless Connect event in SF. Representatives from Los Angeles were there in order to see how Los Angeles could put on a similar event. County officials are talking to PATH to set up a pilot project in Hollywood. PATH is calling it Project Y!MBY (Yes In My Backyard!) This will happen in December of this year.