People Organized for Westside Renewal
The purpose of this corporation is to improve the quality of life for low-income people through community economic development and leadership training to allow parents, tenants and workers to revitalize their community by preserving and increasing affordable housing, improving education, creating jobs and childcare, and addressing immigrant rights.
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LIVE ·2024 Grants ChallengeSupporting Self-Advocacy to Break the Homelessness Cycle
When people facing homelessness are receiving case management and interim housing, they’re often left to navigate the system on their own. In the majority of cases, they never make it to being permanently housed. With our toolkit, people facing homelessness will have the tools they need to advocate for themselves through this convoluted system and have agency in the service pipeline to attain permanent housing.
- LIVE ·2023 Grants Challenge
Housing insecure people creating housing policy
POWER will train and develop community leaders who are currently unhoused, have recently experienced homelessness, or are currently facing displacement. We will evaluate local initiatives to address the housing and homelessness crisis and win a seat at the table so local government agencies can benefit from the direct, lived experience of people who have faced housing insecurity. Together, we will design programs that draw on real peoples' lived experience to make our housing policies as effective and impactful as possible to house LA together.