Group of around 20 people bunched in front of a tree. There is a building and more trees behind the group of people. The picture is bordered with a thick light pink and a thin white line with the text “Join us for outreach!” on the middle top of the photo and “Saturday, 4/18 - 12:00 PM Meet at Immanuel Presbyterian Church - 3300 Wilshire Blvd, LA CA 90010 (Parking lot on Berendo St.)” on the middle bottom of the photo. There is an icon of overlapping purple and red heart with “KTOWN FOR ALL” in white letters centered on the overlapping hearts on the right bottom corner of the photo.

Join us for outreach! We always go over our guidelines, and if you’re new, we’ll make sure you’re in a group with experienced volunteers - all you need to do is show up! We meet in the Immanuel Presbyterian parking lot at 12pm (you can park in the lot!)
See you there!

In L.A. County, many homeless people enter shelters, only to end up back on the streets More than half the people who exit interim housing in Los Angeles County leave for the streets or unknown locations.

Services need to be built for people who use them, not for people who want unhoused folks out of sight. Warehousing people in settings that are unsafe, have no privacy, and can't support them doesn't work.
www.latimes.com/california/s...

Group of around 20 people bunched in front of a tree. There is a building and more trees behind the group of people. The picture is bordered with a thick light pink and a thin white line with the text “Join us for outreach!” on the middle top of the photo and “Saturday, 4/11 - 12:00 PM Meet at Immanuel Presbyterian Church - 3300 Wilshire Blvd, LA CA 90010 (Parking lot on Berendo St.)” on the middle bottom of the photo. There is an icon of overlapping purple and red heart with “KTOWN FOR ALL” in white letters centered on the overlapping hearts on the right bottom corner of the photo.

Join us for outreach! We always go over our guidelines, and if you’re new, we’ll make sure you’re in a group with experienced volunteers - all you need to do is show up! We meet in the Immanuel Presbyterian parking lot at 12pm (you can park in the lot!)
See you there!

It's fiscally irresponsible to prioritize sweeps over basic services. It's also unnecessarily cruel, collective punishment that solves nothing.

Image excerpting a CARE schedule showing that CD 10 and CD 11 did not provide locations for trash pickup.

Everyone wants to be able to separate their trash and have it be picked up. And while the city's CARE operations often escalate to full-blown CARE+ (sweeps) operations, one has to wonder why so many council offices just aren't doing trash pickup but are happy to do sweeps.

A woman crouching on a sidewalk in front of two mesh metal trash cans that are chained to a utility pole outside a gas station parking lot.

One of our volunteers advocated for more trash cans. The nearby encampment wasn't getting enough trash pickup for its own needs, let alone for the illegal dumping it was getting. The city councilmember added several trash cans, a simple, cost-effective alternative to pricey, ineffective sweeps.

We met someone recently whose daughter's ASD diagnosis meant a shelter didn't work out for her. She's frustrated by her inability to find housing directly from the streets without having to endure an unbearable situation first. We need real services. Hiding homelessness is not solving homelessness.

...at a fraction of the cost of hotel rooms. But the tradeoff every politician makes is to use failed enforcement strategies for unhoused people who absolutely want services.

There are also plenty of people who want hotel rooms! But kicking folks out because they're in the hospital sucks.

"Bass said those facilities are a vast improvement... providing bathrooms, heating, air conditioning, hot showers, three meals a day and doors that lock."

You don't need to force people indoors at the behest of housed people to provide showers, bathrooms or meals. You can provide locked storage....

When the program was launched, we said that there wasn't enough permanent, affordable housing to make it work. But the focus on removing visible homelessness over actually solving homelessness is a bandaid, not a structural fix.

Under L.A. mayor's $300-million homeless program, 40% have returned to the street Even as Mayor Karen Bass' signature homelessness initiative brings more people indoors, a growing number are winding up back on the street.

40% of people in Inside Safe have returned to the street. The program has spent 300 million. The plan was to house people within 90 days, but stays average nearly a year. www.latimes.com/california/s...

"Bass said those facilities are a vast improvement... providing bathrooms, heating, air conditioning, hot showers, three meals a day and doors that lock."

You don't need to force people indoors at the behest of housed people to provide showers, bathrooms or meals. You can provide locked storage....

When the program was launched, we said that there wasn't enough permanent, affordable housing to make it work. But the focus on removing visible homelessness over actually solving homelessness is a bandaid, not a structural fix.

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The Trump Administration is trying to mass-evict immigrant families. Join us TONIGHT at 7pm PDT for an informational webinar on how to fight back! We will explain the “Mixed Status” ruling, and walk you through submitting opposing comment. Together we can work to stop this!

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Section of a notice on a wire fence noting that folks had to vacate from March 29 to April 4th and that their propert would be held for 60 days. The area for the number they should call to retrieve their property is blank.

A few of our members arrived to monitor a CalTrans sweep today. CalTrans didn't show up, and it's not clear when they might in the next week. Property will supposedly be held for 60 days, but the number to retrieve that property is blank.

When we say listen to peoples' lived experience, this is what we mean. Insisting that the only people who deserve housing are those "willing" to take shelter just fails people who have been failed before. We often prioritize housed folks' emotional comfort over the material needs of unhoused people.

At outreach this week, we met a woman trying to find a caseworker for her unhoused daughter. She'd had a bad experience with shelter and haf recently been diagnosed with ASD. There are a lot of reasons shelter doesn't work for everyone, but the most common one we hear is a previous bad experience.

Group of around 20 people bunched around indoors in an open spaced room with low hanging light fixtures above them. The picture is bordered with a thick light pink and a thin white line with the text “Join us for outreach!” on the middle top of the photo and “Saturday, 3/28 - 12:00 PM Meet at Immanuel Presbyterian Church - 3300 Wilshire Blvd, LA CA 90010 (Parking lot on Berendo St.)” on the middle bottom of the photo. There is an icon of overlapping purple and red heart with “KTOWN FOR ALL” in white letters centered on the overlapping hearts on the right bottom corner of the photo.

Join us for outreach! We always go over our guidelines, and if you’re new, we’ll make sure you’re in a group with experienced volunteers - all you need to do is show up! We meet in the Immanuel Presbyterian parking lot at 12pm (you can park in the lot!)
See you there!

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Koreatown in LA is one the city’s greatest neighborhoods. Yesterday I got Korean skincare, ate fried chicken, and bought these pineapple cream cookies I’m obsessed with all in one building!

Group of around 20 people bunched in front of a tree. There is a building and more trees behind the group of people. The picture is bordered with a thick light pink and a thin white line with the text “Join us for outreach!” on the middle top of the photo and “Saturday, 3/21 - 12:00 PM Meet at Immanuel Presbyterian Church - 3300 Wilshire Blvd, LA CA 90010 (Parking lot on Berendo St.)” on the middle bottom of the photo. There is an icon of overlapping purple and red heart with “KTOWN FOR ALL” in white letters centered on the overlapping hearts on the right bottom corner of the photo.

Join us for outreach! We always go over our guidelines, and if you’re new, we’ll make sure you’re in a group with experienced volunteers - all you need to do is show up! We meet in the Immanuel Presbyterian parking lot at 12pm (you can park in the lot!)
See you there!

After about 10 minutes of agitating an elderly man for no reason, the BID security guard gave up and moved on.

The man is refusing to move but also not violating any laws, so the security guard is just standing around repeatedly telling him he has to move while he ignores her empty threats. What a cruel waste of time and money.

Downtown LA: an unhoused man just standing around being angrily told to move along by a purple-shirt security guard funded by the Business Improvement District (meaning "working for business owners and landlords"). Just threatening an old man with seemingly severe scoliosis for no reason at all.

For the general public, the City had “resolved” homelessness in September during the massive encampment “cleanup.” However, our neighbors are still hungry, still relocated, still in grief, and still without permanent dignified housing.

In February 2026, my neighbor’s cousin passed away. In text messages, she shared about the grief of losing a loved one, another loss yet again.

In a phone call a few months later, my neighbor shared that they were relocated from the temporary shelter in South Central to a hotel in Hollywood. They were notified only a day before the move. The hotel in Hollywood was soon after infested with roaches. There was no place to cook food.

We could no longer meet and talk in-person like before. Except for the few Paypal payments sent for groceries or dinner, it became much harder to support them after they were away from Koreatown.

In text messages, my neighbor shared that they were relocated to a hotel in South Central. The week of the big encampment sweep, they asked if I knew how to retrieve belongings taken during a sweep. Even their clothing was not spared. There wasn’t a way to retrieve the belongings.