Dear friends,  

LA Family Housing welcomes you to the first all-digital version of our Impact Report—we hope you enjoy this new format. We’re proud of our 2023 accomplishments highlighted throughout this report, including connecting over 15,000 people with services and housing – more than any other year in LAFH history. Over 5,600 of those people are permanently housed in LAFH-owned buildings, and of the roughly 10,000 people in our homeless programs, we helped over 2,400 secure permanent homes, diverting thousands more from falling into homelessness to begin with. 

As a regional leader, LAFH is also proud of our contributions to the successes of our region’s homeless response systems. For the first time in several years, the 2024 Greater LA Homeless Count showed a decrease of people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles, with unsheltered homelessness down 5.1% percent in the County and 12.7% in the City, demonstrating that our region’s coordinated emergency response has been making a difference.

While this news is a positive step in the right direction, we must proceed with cautious optimism. We are still met with various challenges that contribute to homelessness – most notably an extreme lack of affordable and available housing, stagnant wages, long-standing systemic racism and inequalities, and safety net failures.  

Thus, our work must continue! As one of the leading homeless service agencies in the County, LAFH knows what it takes to end homeless: helping more people stay in their homes, increasing access to housing and services for those who have fallen into homelessness, and building more affordable housing in our region. 

To that end, we have ramped up our real estate development and continue to be a leading advocate for creating more efficient systems to build housing. Earlier this year, we launched LAFHBuilds, an affiliate nonprofit whose focus is affordable housing development. In partnership with LAFHBuilds, we have eight new projects in our development pipeline which will create 563 new permanent homes by 2026.

We are deeply appreciative of our dedicated Board of Directors, brilliant colleagues, and you—our incredible community of supporters. With you by our side, LA Family Housing will continue serving Angelenos experiencing homelessness with the same determination, innovation, and passion we have shown for over four decades. We look forward to creating a brighter future together!  
 
With gratitude,  

Stephanie Klasky-Gamer and Gillian Wright