LA County Board

6. Assuring that No Employee of the County of Los Angeles is\nExperiencing Homelessness\nRecommendation as submitted by Supervisors Hahn and Mitchell: Instruct\nthe Director of Personnel and the Chief Executive Officer to conduct a\nvoluntary confidential survey of all County employees asking for, and not\nlimited to, questions, such as Department of employment, demographic\ndata, including spousal or partner status and number of dependents,\nsalary/wages range, debt owed (e.g., student, medical, or other), housing\nsituation (e.g., if they are sleeping in their car, couch surfing or renting a\nroom, or if they have stable housing), currently collecting or enrolled in any\nCounty benefit programs, and any past system involvement (e.g., formerly\nincarcerated, child welfare or juvenile justice involved, or domestic violence\nsurvivor); and instruct the Director of Personnel, and the Chief Executive\nOfficer, through the Homeless Initiative, in consultation with the Directors of\nMental Health, Public Social Services, and Consumer and Business Affairs,\nto report back to the Board in writing within 120 days of the conclusion of\nthe survey, to provide the Board with recommendations on services and\nprotocols that would be most beneficial to preventing and reducing\nhomeless risk for County employees, as identified through the survey\nresults, including, and not limited to, recommendations on programs to\nconnect homeless or housing insecure County employees to case\nmanagement services and/or access to housing navigation resources\nthrough County Departments or partner agencies, any policy, ordinance, or\nlegislative changes that would remove barriers to retaining employment for\nhousing insecure and homeless individuals, and to prohibit discrimination\nagainst employees who may identify as homeless or unhoused. (24-1493)