The Most Expensive Mistake We’re Making: Why LA Doesn’t Prevent Youth Homelessness Letters to the Housed by Paul Asplund of SecondGrace.LA

This week's letter breaks down what Manchester built, what LA has (and doesn't), and what a real prevention system here could look like.
The solutions exist when we work together.
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It’s by focusing on the human aspect of this work that we create a more human society.

It starts with you!

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Radical hope to end homelessness.

100 people spent two days rebuilding LA County’s homelessness services.

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Hope practitioners: If you could teach one thing about hope to someone feeling hopeless, what would it be? Building our wisdom library one insight at a time. buff.ly/DyQgITs #LettersToTheHoused #CommunityWisdom #SecondGraceLA

adrienne maree brown taught me about "imagination battles"—we're living inside stories others told us were true.

When I see unhoused neighbors, I choose unlimited potential over broken narratives.
What story needs rewriting in your world?

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Hope isn't something you have—it's something you do. Tomorrow's wisdom from 7 teachers who changed my perspective.

What sustains you when the world feels broken?

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When Fear Comes Knocking: Immigration Raids Push More LA Families Into Homelessness Letters to the Housed by Paul Asplund of SecondGrace.LA

"We were the only people passing through those turnstiles"

Empty Metro. Overflowing animal shelters. Fear has reshaped our city in weeks.

The human cost behind the economic statistics.

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"This is an emergency for all of us, housed and unhoused. We choose to let this go on. We can choose to end it."

Progress isn't enough when lives are at stake.

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