These performance metrics will measure progress toward key policy goals focused on reducing the number of people who experience homelessness in Los Angeles County.
Background
Los Angeles County voters passed Ballot Measure A in November 2024, adopting a half-cent sales tax that will generate $1.1 billion per year to fund homelessness services and affordable housing construction.
The measure sets five homelessness and affordable housing policy goals, including:
1. Increasing the number of people moving from encampments into permanent housing to reduce unsheltered homelessness
2. Reduce the number of people with mental illness and/or substance use disorders who experience homelessness
3. Increase the number of people permanently leaving homelessness
4. Prevent people from falling into homelessness
5. Increase the number of affordable housing units in LA County
The measure also requires the County to establish metrics that will measure progress towards those goals by April 2025 and to then provide ongoing reports. Measure A is an opportunity to build Los Angeles County’s capacity to address the homelessness crisis.
Developing and implementing Measure A performance metrics
As co-Chair of the Data Subcommittee of the Executive Steering Committee for Data and IT Governance (ESC),CPL has worked hand in hand with government partners from the Chief Information Officer of Los Angeles County (CIO), the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS), as well as researchers from USC and UCLA. The ESC began its work in June 2024 to develop and implement the metrics the County will adopt in the spring of 2025.
The metrics utilize a linked database, providing comprehensive insight into the homelessness system in Los Angeles by integrating data that had previously been siloed between different County agencies. County policymakers will use the metrics to inform their spending plan for Measure A revenues and set performance targets. This work will be informed by input from CPL’s Homelessness Prevention Community Advisory Board, which includes people with lived expertise of homelessness, people who utilized prevention programs, service providers who administer prevention programs and tools, program managers who supervise program implementation, and professionals who work within other systems that impact homelessness programs and services.
Research Team
Janey Rountree (Executive Director), Peter Casey (Research Director), Jesus Ramos (Senior Data Analyst), Zoe Klingmann (Data Analyst), Dean Obermark (former CPL Senior Data Analyst, currently at CIO)
Results
Report: Measure A Baseline Measures and Five-Year Trends from 2019-2024 (January 2025)
Data Report: Measure A Baseline Measures Broken Down by Demographic Group (March 2025)
Note: The tables included in the data report can also be viewed and sorted in this interactive table:
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