Santa Clarita Valley volunteers are planning to join in a countywide effort to count the local homeless population Tuesday night, and residents can still sign up to volunteer. The Point-In-Time Homeless Count, organized by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), is expected to start Tuesday,...

File Photo Two hundred volunteers are needed to help count Santa Clarita Valley’s homeless population on Tuesday, January 24, 2017 at 8:00 p.m. The Point-In-Time Homeless Count, organized by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), will begin at two locations: The Centre, located at 20880...

The Board of Supervisors unanimously approved two measures to secure ongoing funding to combat the profound crisis of homelessness in communities across Los Angeles County. The 5-0 votes came following hours of often emotional testimony by members of the public, some of them formerly homeless, along...

Registration is now open for Box City, an annual fundraising event that allows Family Promise of the Santa Clarita Valley to provide support for local homeless families. Box City 2016 will take place on September 24 at Valencia Heritage Park. The event is intended to raise money and awareness for Family...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness announced Monday that the number of veterans experiencing homelessness in the United States has been cut nearly in half since 2010.  The data revealed a 17-percent...

The Housing Authority of the County of Los Angeles has been awarded $781,492, the largest such funding award in the country, in extraordinary administration fees to support its Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing Program.  The award comes from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)...

Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas [Ridley-Thomas] – Acting on a motion by Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, and amendments from Supervisors Sheila Kuehl and Michael Antonovich, the Board of Supervisors called for drafting three potential November 2016 ballot measures asking voters to consider a parcel...

Animal-loving Facebook groups are rallying to help save a homeless woman’s gravely injured cat by donating toward the cost of her surgery. Read the full story [here].

Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas Acting on a motion by Supervisors Mark Ridley-Thomas and Sheila Kuehl, the Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 to seek a change in state law that would keep all options open to fund the fight against homelessness. “To address the profundity of the crisis and the depth of poverty...

Supervisor Mark Ridley-ThomasFollowing the announcement of a six percent increase in the homeless population, Supervisors Mark Ridley-Thomas and Sheila Kuehl are planning to ask the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday to seek authority for a potential ballot measure that would raise funding needed to address...