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Watts Rising Collaborative Hosts Community Event
The Watts Rising Collaborative, in partnership with HACLA, Council District 15, Children’s Institute and Kaiser Permanente, hosted the Watts Rising Community Event on Saturday, November 18.. Over 400...
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HACLA Joins United Way’s 11th Annual HomeWalk 2017
The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles participated in United Way Greater Los Angeles’ 11th Annual HomeWalk in an effort to help end homelessness. Over 10,000 people gathered at Grand Park on...
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Formerly Homeless Engineering Teacher Graduates from the FSS Program
Sherman Poole is an engineering teacher at the Compton High School and also coaches for the Solar Boat Competition. He is full of positive spirit and energy, always hoping to make a difference in his...
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Grand Opening of Arlington Square
The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) joined A Community of Friends (ACOF) on Wednesday, December 6, 2017 for the Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony of the Arlington Square...
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Rasheda McCloud's Path to Financial Stability
Rasheda McCloud was pregnant with her second daughter when she divorced her husband in 2003. McCloud explained that living life as a single mom was not easy and financially difficult.“I thought, ‘How...
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HACLA Joins Partners for the Annual Holiday Toy Giveaways
The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) hosted its annual Holiday Toy Giveaway for its Public Housing communities.We’d like to thank our partners who came together to spread the...
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PATH Metro Villas Phase II Groundbreaking
The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) joined PATH (People Assisting The Homeless) along with Mayor Eric Garcetti, Council Member Mitch O’Farrell, Council President Herb Wesson, and...
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HACLA and Top Dawg Entertainment Host a 2-Day Holiday Concert and Toy...
The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) and Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE) came together for the fourth year to host a 2-day TDE and Friends Holiday Concert and Toy Drive/Giveaway at...
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Murder in America: What Makes Cities Safer, Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal highlights HACLA and LAPD’s Community Safety Partnership Program. Watts and the housing developments have seen a dramatic decrease in crime thanks to an unprecedented level of...
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Watts Rising Collaborative Hosts the Cal SGC for a Tour of Watts
The Watts Rising Collaborative submitted the $35 million Transformative Climate Communities (TCC) Program Implementation Grant Application this past December and as part of the application review...
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Volunteers Needed for the 2018 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count
Every January, we embark on a 3-day mission to count our homeless neighbors across Los Angeles. Register now to be one of the 8,000 volunteers needed to conduct the 2018 Greater Los Angeles Homeless...
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Jordan Downs Redevelopment Phase 1A, Over 230 Individuals Attend Jordan Downs...
On a picture perfect day in January, the Jordan Downs redevelopment site was bustling with activity. The rustle of the forklifts and excavators along with the smell of freshly cut construction wood...
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FSS Program Graduate of the Month: Samantha Myles
Samantha Myles was a single mother receiving public assistance and attending college part-time in 2010 when she received a Section 8 voucher. In hopes of developing a roadmap for her future, she...
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HACLA Led Initiative Awarded $35 Million State Grant
The Transformative Climate Communities Program (TCC) funds development and infrastructure projects that achieve major environmental, health, and economic benefits in CA’s most disadvantaged...
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Mayor Eric Garcetti Joins HACLA and Partners to Celebrate $35 MM State Grant...
Mayor Eric Garcetti and Councilman Joe Buscaino joined HACLA and the Watts Rising partners to celebrate the $35 million state Cap-and-Trade funding for affordable housing and environmental initiatives...
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FSS Program Graduate of the Month: Lakenya Thomas
Lakenya Thomas was unemployed and receiving public assistance when she received her Section 8 voucher in 2004. Six years later, Thomas was selected to join the Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program.The...
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Mar Vista Garden’s youth, Salvador Molina, Receives Youth of the Year Award
Salvador Molina, a 17-year-old resident of Mar Vista Gardens and a member of the Jack and Cindy Jones Club house of the Boys and Girls Club of Mar Vista Gardens, was presented with the 2018 Youth of...
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WorkForce Development Unit Provides a Path to Employment
Laura Rodriguez understands the struggles of living on a fixed income and trying to make it month by month. She lived at the Nickerson Gardens public housing development from 1985 to 1991. Laura is...
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Imperial Courts Youth Writes History
Imperial Courts made history by inaugurating its first student authors at a book signing event held at Cal State University, Dominguez Hills on Thursday, February 22, 2018.Six Imperial Courts’ youth...
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HACLA Awarded $1.3M Choice Neighborhoods Planning and Action Grant
LOS ANGELES – The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) today announced it has received a Choice Neighborhoods Planning and Action Grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban...
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