Front-line workers grapple with money worries as well as the stress of a job working with traumatized people. It's no surprise that burnout and turnover are high.
Editorial: Homeless people shouldn’t spend weeks proving they’re poor before they get an apartment
But it takes a salary of $64,000 to afford a one-bedroom apartment in L.A. County without spending more than 30% of annual income in housing costs, according to the study, which uses the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s calculation of fair market rents. As a result, workers grapple with money worries as well as the stress of a job working with traumatized people.
Why the low pay? Nonprofit homeless service organizations that employ the front-line workers work mostly on contracts with government agencies — such as the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority — to provide homeless services. Those contracts are funded with county, city, state or federal funds that nonprofits say are routinely underfunded.So far, the Inside Safe initiative has temporarily housed 1,000 people. That’s impressive. The harder part will be getting them into permanent housing.
depending on whether the clients have mental illnesses, substance abuse issues, chronic physical ailments or some combination thereof. Maceri says if his organization is providing services in an interim housing location, the bed rates on some contracts range from $50 to $68 a day.
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