L.A. is housing more people than ever, but an even greater number keep falling into homelessness. This first-of-its-kind prevention program calculates who seems most at risk for landing on the street.
At the time, Volantin and her partner, Valarie Zayas, were renting a bed at a place on Venice Beach in Los Angeles."Dormitory-style living," Zayas says. The women had met in prison a few years before, after each had been involved with gangs, and they were over-the-moon happy to have found love. But Volantin had suffered bad bouts of mental illness that required hospitalization. Zayas was hustling temp jobs to supplement Dulce's disability aid.
"It's a bucket with a hole in it, so we've got to do something ... to fill that hole," says Dana Vanderford, who helps lead the department's Homelessness Prevention unit. While most people need rent help, Juarez says that's not always the most urgent problem. She's used the allocated money for payday loan debt, appliances, laptops and, recently, an e-bike for someone whose mental illness made it difficult to take public transportation.Some actually decline the help, telling her others need it more. And then there are the skeptics."They kind of just give you the runaround," Juarez says.
The man mentions he's renting from a relative and recently had a seizure. Yes, he says, he'd like to sign up. Then the biggest challenge: Brown is desperate to find a two-bedroom place for the boys."They want to play," he says."They want open space and they can't get it." Brown says he's been blessed with this program and calls Theus a"lifesaver." But at night, it doesn't keep his mind from racing with a thousand worries.
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