Mayor Bass Secures Agreement With White House to Tackle Unsheltered Homelessness

LOS ANGELES –  Los Angeles was selected today to be one of five cities to enter in a partnership with the White House and the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH). The new initiative is called ALL INside, an initiative to address unsheltered homelessness all across the country.

Watch remarks from Mayor Bass at this morning’s event here. 

As part of ALL INside, the City of Los Angeles will partner with USICH and its 19 federal member agencies for up to two years to accelerate local efforts to move unhoused Angelenos off the streets and into homes where they can recover and rebuild their lives.

ALL INside is part of All In: The Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness, which set a goal to reduce homelessness 25% by 2025 and ultimately build a country where every person has a safe and affordable home.

Federal partners will collaborate with the city to advance the following priorities:

Fast tracking processes to bring people inside;

Addressing documentation requirements and other red tape that prevent people from being housed quickly;

Ensuring people can use existing resources like emergency housing vouchers;

Creating more regulatory flexibility such as support for expediting federal reimbursements; and

Supporting local efforts to advance coordination with state and local agencies such as the local transit authority and public housing authorities

The Biden-Harris Administration will offer support to participating communities for up to two years, including by:

Deploying dedicated teams across the federal government to identify opportunities for regulatory relief and flexibilities, navigate federal funding streams, and facilitate a peer learning network across the communities; and

Convening philanthropy, the private sector, and other communities to identify opportunities for follow-on support and collaboration. 

Embedding a dedicated federal official in each community to accelerate locally-driven strategies and enact system-level changes to reduce unsheltered homelessness;

In addition, the administration will launch new cross-cutting policy efforts to address major barriers to housing, health care, and other support for people experiencing unsheltered homelessness, as mentioned in the ALL INside White House Fact Sheet and USICH Announcement released May 18.