LA County approves $402 million to fight homelessness, asks community to pitch in
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The LA County Board of Supervisors approved $402 million in Measure H funding to help move the homeless into housing. Above, the emergency shelter at the Greater Missionary Baptist Church on Norris Avenue in Pacoima. (File photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) By ELIZABETH MARCELLINOCity News Service LOS ANGELES - The Measure H sales tax increase has provided enough money to move homeless people off the streets and get them the services they need, but community support needs to be part of the solution, county officials said today. Advocates for the homeless rallied next to a giant open door set up outside the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration to represent an opportunity to...