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The World Cup starts in 52 days. It's the stress test. And we are not ready.
Article 3 of 4 maps the money, the timeline, and what a credible plan actually requires.
The county's Olympic encampment strategy acknowledges it has no new housing money — while sitting inside a city that has generated over a billion dollars specifically designated for housing.
The money is not absent. The alignment is.
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LA has raised $1B+ through Measure ULA. Measure A generates $1B annually. The feds allocated $1B for Olympic planning.
New dollars for housing displaced residents: zero.
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Two years. The knowledge exists. The community expertise is there. The only question is whether the people who hold power are willing to share it.
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"The gap is not knowledge. The gap is power: who has the authority to make these decisions, and whether they are willing to share it."
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An abstract, textural poster with the title ask them first: what Paris taught us about who's expertise counts from Letters to the Housed by Paul Asplund of SecondGrace.LA
When the Doctors of the World clinic near the Stade de France closed for the Olympics, 30% fewer people accessed care after it reopened. The disruption broke years of trust. Community members predicted this. #HousingJustice #EndHomelessness #2028Olympics
They knew what would fail. No one asked them. A coalition of 80+ orgs predicted every Paris Olympics failure — and proposed a real alternative. LA has 2 years to listen differently. #HousingJustice #EndHomelessness #2028Olympics buff.ly/aYWh3JV @mayor.lacity.gov @housingdefense.bsky.social
Countdown clocks for FIFA World Cup and Los Angeles Olympics. The clocks are ticking; the time to act is now. House Them or Hide Them? LA’s Choice Before Olympics 2028 A four-part investigation into Olympic displacement, community expertise, and what Los Angeles can still do before the world arrives. Letters to the Housed by Paul Asplund of SecondGrace.LA The Four-Part Series Publishing every Tuesday in April 2026
Week 1 of 4. The evidence exists. The money exists. The community expertise exists.
What's missing is political will — and that responds to public pressure.
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256 people housed during the Paris Olympics through one small dignified program.
Not a waitlist. Not a bus ticket. An actual offer.
Every one of them said yes.
That's the proof of concept LA needs to act on. buff.ly/HhmGR2O
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Every Olympics. Same displacement. Same promises. Same silence.
Why do we keep pretending LA will be different?
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"Olympic confinement" — when people make themselves invisible to survive a major event. Not displaced by authorities. Disappeared by fear.
Paris documented it. LA is already living it.
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This is Article 1 of 4. Published in response to a conversation with Mayor Bass's team. The policy brief is public. The clock is running. buff.ly/HhmGR2O #HousingJustice #OlympicDisplacement
But Paris also proved something: 256 people housed through a dignified program. No lengthy intake. Housing near their support networks. When the offer was right, people said yes. The failure wasn't the people. It was the offer.
They named it "Olympic confinement" — when people make themselves invisible to survive. Not displaced by authorities. Disappeared by fear. It's already happening in LA. Just not because of the Olympics. Yet.
Paris displaced 19,526 people before the Olympics. 4,550 were children. Zero permanent housing created. LA is two years away from the same choice. buff.ly/HhmGR2O #2028Olympics #EndHomelessness
We didn't just write about this.
I submitted a policy brief to Mayor Bass's team — three things LA can do right now, before the World Cup, before the cameras arrive.
That brief is public today.
Four-part series launches April 7.
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Campaign hub, countdown clocks, and the Mayor's brief:
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Part 1 drops April 7.
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This April: four articles on what LA can still do before the cameras arrive.
I've submitted our recommendations to Mayor Bass's team. That brief is public now.
But Paris also did something small that worked.
256 people placed in dignified, stable housing — near their support networks, through workers who knew them by name.
When the offer was right, people said yes. Every time.
70 days until the World Cup. 826 until the Olympics.
Paris displaced 19,526 people before their Games. 4,550 were children. Zero permanent housing was created.
LA's turn is coming. So is our choice.
Lisbon. Buenos Aires. Manchester. Santiago. Four cities making measurable progress on homelessness with fewer resources than LA.
So what's stopping us?
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The pieces fit together: prevention → no-exclusion intake → Housing First with dedicated stock → employment bridge. LA is missing at least two of these stages entirely. The full blueprint → buff.ly/EaCk7oa
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Lisbon trained people experiencing homelessness as restaurant workers. 68% placed into the broader job market. Substance use dropped from 90% to 45% — with no treatment mandate. LA has the ingredients. Nobody has assembled them yet.
Buenos Aires expanded shelter capacity 30% in eight months — during an economic collapse worse than ours — by admitting everyone, classifying by need, keeping families together. LA separates families in shelters. Still.
Manchester cut rough sleeping 42% with a youth prevention pilot that cost $890K. One in four young people who age out of LA's foster system report homelessness by age 23. We don't have a prevention system. We have a crisis response system. There's a difference.
Four cities. Fewer resources than LA. All making measurable progress on homelessness. This week's article asks: what if we actually tried what they're doing?
In LA, young people experiencing housing instability move an average of 15 times in a single year. Fifteen times in one year.
Research by @rand.org and @capolicylab.bsky.social. Manchester's youth prevention program exists so that number never has to happen.
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This week: Manchester. Before that, Buenos Aires. Before that, Lisbon. Every city in the IGH Vanguard series has one thing in common. They designed their systems around the people who needed them. Not around the institutions. Not around the funders. Around the people.
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LA spent $908M on homeless services this year. Not one standalone program designed the way Manchester designed theirs.
Not one region-wide youth prevention system with outcomes-based contracts and a coach who stays. We know what works.
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