Mitchell called for an “urgent expansion of proven tools, such as directing funding to needed mental health services, while implementing income programs to help stabilize working families and small businesses.” He said he was leaving it there.

Mitchell launched a countywide RV camping pilot program to get unhoused residents out of their RVs and into housing, and a motion to allow small landlords to collect unpaid rent to help prevent homelessness. He said he co-wrote the book.

“To reduce homelessness, the preservation and production of affordable housing must be a top priority for all policymakers, and we must all work together to increase the inventory of affordable housing in our county.” We need to do that,” Mitchell said.

Williams said L.A. County needs to launch more permanent supportive housing programs with comprehensive social services. Williams said the county also needs to address housing affordability by developing housing assistance programs to help low-income households pay rent.

“By implementing structured housing programs with supportive services for homeless and low-income households, we can reduce the revolving door of homelessness by 60 percent,” Williams said.

To meet the needs of the county's estimated 22,655 unhoused people with substance use disorders, Carleton has contracted with nonprofit organizations to renovate former hospitals, hotels, and department stores to provide 24-hour, seven-day-a-day drug use facilities. He said he would lobby the county to turn it into a use disorder treatment center. For residents without housing.

These facilities will provide detox, treatment, job training and other supports “aimed at helping them reintegrate into society,” Carleton said.

Bradford said he intended to do so. reverse the movement Mitchell and Supervisor Hilda L. Solis declared L.A. County a “housing first county” and directed the county's lobbyists to oppose any non-housing first bill in Sacramento. Bradford said he also plans to encourage county lobbyists to fight to amend Senate Bill 1380, a law Mitchell authored in 2016. Another first housing initiative.

This law “provides requested services on an as-needed and voluntary basis and does not compel participation in services in order to receive housing.” Program services should be made mandatory. Bradford said, adding that partnering with law enforcement is another important aspect of the county's homeless crisis response.