Public Engagement Mayors Office of Legislative and External Affairs - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Public Engagement Mayor’s Office of Legislative and External Affairs September 16, 2019

Mayor Garcetti’s Eight Area Representatives Tanaz Golshan Senior Area Rep. Caroline Menjivar West Valley Area Rep East Valley Area Rep. Edna Degollado Ami Fields-Meyer East Area Rep. West Area Rep Edith Vega Southeast Area Rep. Angie Aramayo Central Area Rep Johanna Rodriguez David Price Harbor & Watts Area Rep Southwest Area Rep

Focus Points for the Year Census Homelessness 2020 Solutions Green New Deal

Census 2020 -- Why Should It Be a Campaign MONEY • Nationally, $880B allocated annually for transportation, housing, job training, education, healthcare, social services ; • LA County receives $7B annually based on census data POWER Congressional Representation & Reapportionment Challenges ● LA County is the Hardest-to-Count County in the Nation ● 57% of LA City residents belong historically undercounted populations ● Undercounts = cuts; LA County lost about $650M due to 2010 undercount

Hard to Count Areas

What Is Our Office Doing Presenting to Neighborhood Councils and Communities ❖ Working to get more Goodwill Ambassadors ❖ Our Ask Recruit Ambassadors so Census and DONE can train them ❖ ❖ Need assistance with hard to count areas Promote the importance of the Census ❖ Encourage all communities to be counted ❖ Encourage NC’s to use funds to do events with the Census plan ❖

The Green New Deal Key Principles

Green New Deal Increase the percentage of all trips made by walking, biking, ❖ micro-mobility / matched rides or transit to at least 35% by 2025; 50% by 2035; and maintain at least 50% by 2050 Electrify 100% of LA Metro and LADOT buses by 2030 ❖ Open green career pathways and develop pipelines for ❖ employment

Our Ask: Ask Neighborhood Councils to support a legislative package with a ❖ CIS Encourage Neighborhood Councils to do a sustainability event ❖ Example: plant trees

LA’s Homelessness Strategy Outreach & Bridge Supportive & Street Strategies Housing Affordable Housing We’re making the Mayor Garcetti declared Paid for by Prop HHH, streets healthier and an emergency shelter the City is building safer by deploying crisis in April 2018. As long-term homes housing & health new units come online, connected to social services to the we are working to bring services over the next homeless population. more and more ten years. (Measure H & Angelenos inside. HEAP funds)

Transforming Homeless Outreach In 2015 there were 9 homeless service workers in the City ❖ In 2019 there are over 500 in the City (over 800 in the County) ❖ Unprecedented, cross-agency coordination of outreach and services ❖ maximizes effectiveness of each interaction When temporary or supportive housing facilities opens, they are full ❖ within a few days

Homelessness Solutions We are housing people at an unprecedented rate ❖ 92% of people housed, remain housed.

The Coming Year: Record Investments ❖ Record budget investment in homelessness: -$460 million ❖ HHH projects opening doors: -170 developments -10,000 units in the pipeline ❖ A Bridge Home: -Over 2,000 new beds ❖ State Funding: -$86 million in HEAP

Completed ABH Sites El Puente (CD 14) Downtown Women’s 45 beds Center (CD 14) 25 beds YWCA (CD 13) St. Andrew’s Place 64 beds (CD 8) 100 beds Schrader (CD 13) Gardner Ave. (CD 4) 72 beds 30 beds 3rd. Street (CD 1) 14 ABH 40 beds sites in progress

What is our office doing: Building support for housing sites ❖ Working with the Neighborhood Council to do a workshop at the ❖ Congress of Neighborhoods Our Ask: Neighborhoods Councils to support proposed sites in their area ❖ Listen to a presentation by Everyone In ❖ Tour a supportive housing site ❖ Highlight NC’s that have homeless committees and are part of the ❖ Homeless liaison

Thank you Contact Information: Angie Aramayo Central Area Representative Email: angie.aramayo@lacity.org Phone Number: 323-793-5150