![]() ![]() Moreover, research notes that the most effective services for youth are youth-focused, and the availability of services is directly correlated with the supply of funding. ![]() Existing literature acknowledges the unique problems that the youth subpopulation confronts. In LA County, service providers rely on government funding to assist youth experiencing homelessness. ![]() To address the possibility of gentrification and displacement, CA SGC requires TCC program grant awardees to prepare and implement a Displacement Avoidance Plan (DAP). UCLA’s Center for Neighborhood Knowledge (CNK) and Professor Vinit Mukhija from UCLA Urban Planning, are providing the lead grantee (Pacoima Beautiful) with research on how to develop a Displacement Avoidance Plan. The proposal focused on investments in Pacoima and Sun Valley, city of Los Angeles neighborhoods in the northeast San Fernando Valley with a long history of environmental injustice. The award will bring in $23 million of public money raised through California’s Cap-and-Trade program to the project area for development and infrastructure projects to achieve significant environmental, health, and economic co-benefits in the state’s most disadvantaged communities. While the significant investment is expected to generate numerous positive benefits for local residents and businesses, these transformative investments also bring the risk of displacement in the working class community. In December 2018, the Green Together collaborative, a diverse group of public and non-profit sector partners, received a Transformative Climate Communities (TCC) program grant from the California Strategic Growth Council (CA SGC). Findings highlight the value that tenants see in TAC as well as offer a number of methods to increase attendance and to follow up with tenants to facilitate resolution of problems. The evaluation of TAC was executed through a series of structured interviews with tenants over the phone. TAC is a weekly workshop run by SAJE staff and volunteering lawyers who educate low income tenants in Los Angeles County (predominantely Latinos, Hispanic and African American families) about their rights and advise them when they are faced with unlawful evictions and issues to do with inhabitability of their homes (i.e. In this project, a team of students from the UCLA Master’s of Social Science program (MaSS) developed and administred an evaluation survey to assesss the impact of SAJE's Tenant Action Clinic (TAC). Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE) builds community power and leadership for economic justice by focusing on tenant rights, healthy housing, and equitable development. ![]()
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