Town of Los Angeles will get $21.8 million in federal funds to assist home and supply assist companies to newly arrived migrants, together with migrant youngsters residing on Skid Row, officers introduced.
Metropolis officers, with assist from the county, had utilized for Federal Emergency Administration Company funds to shelter newly arrived migrants who’ve struggled to seek out housing after arriving in Los Angeles.
Native officers and advocates have pledged to welcome migrants who’ve arrived in recent times and provide them assist. However these efforts have been challenged by town’s acute housing disaster.
A whole lot of migrant mother and father and kids this yr have gone to reside at Union Rescue Mission, a privately funded shelter on Skid Row, whereas a smaller quantity have been residing in tents on the sidewalk. Housing migrant households might be particularly troublesome as a result of they’re usually not eligible for a similar housing assist as residents.
The Division of Homeland Safety introduced the funds as a part of the allocation of greater than $380 million throughout the nation via its Shelter and Companies Program, which helps communities present housing and different companies for newly arrived migrants who’re ready to have their circumstances heard in immigration court docket.
Town will oversee the grant funding, which shall be allotted to 3 native nonprofits — the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, Clínica Romero and the Central American Useful resource Middle.
The cash can be utilized to supply shelter, together with motels, for migrants and to supply assist, together with meals, clothes, transportation and different companies.
Mayor Karen Bass had lobbied federal officers for the cash and in early August, 5 members of the Los Angeles congressional delegation, led by Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Los Angeles), wrote to FEMA officers, urging them to approve the funds.
“Town has obligated a good portion of their funds to offering assets for newly arrived migrants, however the metropolis’s potential to adequately and humanely serve this inhabitants shall be strained with out further assist,” the letter mentioned, citing reporting from the L.A. Occasions. “We fear that with out federal help for sheltering, homelessness all through Los Angeles shall be exacerbated.”
L.A. County Supervisor Hilda Solis mentioned the cash would assist make sure that migrants coming to town get the assistance they want.
“These funds will assist to supply much-needed aid to our shelter system and assist latest arrivals who’re going through homelessness, together with in Skid Row,” Solis mentioned in an announcement.
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