Metro - File #: 2022-0389

• File #: 2022-0389
• Type: Informational Report
• Status: Filed
• File created: 5/26/2022
• In control: Executive Management Committee
• On agenda: 10/20/2022
• Final action: 10/20/2022
• Title: RECEIVE AND FILE the Homeless Gap Analysis (Attachment A).
• Sponsors: Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Commit
• Indexes: Cleaning, Customer Experience Plan, Homeless Outreach, Homeless persons, Housing, Informational Report, Law enforcement, Long Beach Police Department, Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Sheriffs Department, Maintenance practices, Outreach, Program, Quality of life, Safety, Safety and security, Security, Strategic planning, Surveys, Transit Homeless Action Plan, Transit System

Date	Action By	Action	Result
10/20/2022	Executive Management Committee

Meeting_Body
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
OCTOBER 20, 2022

Subject
SUBJECT: METRO'S HOMELESS RESPONSE PROGRAM

Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
RECEIVE AND FILE the Homeless Gap Analysis (Attachment A).

Issue
ISSUE

Homelessness continues to be the defining humanitarian crisis of our time, prevalent in every community across the County of Los Angeles. The 2022 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count, which represents the most current available data, showed that 69,144 people were experiencing homelessness in LA County at that time, a 4.1% rise from 2020.

While an unprecedented amount of resources continues to be allocated to address this crisis, the scale of need and an increasing number of individuals becoming homeless continues to outpace available resources. This is largely due to the lack of affordable and permanent supportive housing in the region, making it challenging for unhoused individuals to transition off the streets, or from interim housing units into long-term stable housing.

A significant number of homeless individuals and families seek shelter on Metro's rail, bus lines, station stops, and transit centers. Metro has sought to do its part to address this challenge, including by funding and deploying outreach teams who are dedicated to serving unhoused individuals on the Metro system and Metro property. To continue improving Metro's efforts to assist and reduce the number of unhoused individuals on the system, it was appropriate to evaluate Metro's Homeless Program and identify other opportunities for Metro to engage in order to address this crisis meaningfully.

This report provides an overview of the findings, recommendations, and proposed next steps that culminate into Metro's Homeless Program 2022 Gap Analysis.

Background
BACKGROUND

In July 2016, Metro launched a strategic planning process, which culminated in a Metro Transit Homeless Action Plan that was presented to the Board in Feb...