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5/28/2019
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (LA Metro) board last week approved a contract extension with the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services to continue providing homeless outreach services on trains until May 2021.
Under the contract, outreach teams are deployed seven days a week to help find temporary or permanent housing services for interested homeless individuals who have taken to LA Metro’s rail, buses and the Los Angeles Union Station for alternative shelter, according to an LA Metro press release.
The cost for the services is $4.9 million per year.
The board originally approved $1.2 million to deploy multidisciplinary homeless outreach teams on the LA Metro system in late 2016. The authority has since grown the number of its outreach teams from two to eight teams systemwide.
“As a result of LA County’s Homeless Initiative, over the last 18 months more than 27,000 people have been placed in permanent homes, while tens of thousands of others have been set on a path from homelessness to housing,” said Los Angeles County Supervisor and LA Metro Chair Sheila Kuehl in a press release.