A Strategic Plan for Providing Hiv/aids Housing With Supportive Services in Los Angeles County
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Description:
The Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) program remains at the forefront of national and local strategies to address the housing needs of persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH/A). However, the annual appropriations that Congress makes to the HOPWA program are no longer adequate to meet all the housing needs. Recent epidemiologic and economic trends necessitate a more comprehensive approach for
financing HIV/AIDS housing with supportive services. This strategic plan is the product of a concerted effort by the HIV/AIDS community,providers and advocates, and local policymakers to better inform the distribution of housing, supportive services, and funding resources for PLWH/A in Los Angeles County. The plan performs the following three functions: To describe the housing and supportive service needs of PLWH/A in Los Angeles County; To prioritize these housing and supportive service needs; and to construct a roadmap for the allocation of available resources, including
HOPWA, to address these prioritized needs, through comprehensive planning
and coordination.
By highlighting the numerous public funding programs and systems of care that are
available to supplement the relatively static funding provided through HOPWA, the
Strategic Plan presents local policymakers with greater flexibility in addressing the
prioritized housing and supportive service needs of PLWH/A. The Strategic Plan was developed under the guidance of the Los Angeles HOPWA Advisory Committee (LACHAC) Strategic Planning Task Force, which over the course
of fourteen months, reviewed materials and confirmed findings from source documents. (Authors)
Type of Resource:
Report
Publication Date:
2003