The Hilton Foundation
HR&A is creating a performance oversight system for the City of Los Angeles to maximize the impact of $1 billion spent annually to reduce homelessness. Funded by the Hilton Foundation and California Community Foundation, our work establishing performance targets and operational frameworks positions the City to ensure investments deliver on the vision of making homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring.Â
An estimated 75,000 people experience homelessness on any given night in Los Angeles County, driven primarily by unaffordable housing, income inequality, and racial inequity. The Hilton Foundation’s Homelessness Initiative has demonstrated what strategic, measured interventions can achieve—since launching Strategy 2025 in 2021, the initiative contributed to development of 4,322 permanent housing units and achieved a 38 percent decrease in average time moving people from interim housing to permanent housing. To build on this progress and ensure its substantial annual investment achieves similar outcomes, the City needed systematic tools to measure reduced inflow into homelessness, accelerated time to rehousing, decreased returns to homelessness, and reduced racial disparities.Â
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HR&A is establishing performance targets aligned with evidence-based interventions including permanent housing solutions, prevention strategies, and supportive services. We are designing how this oversight system will be staffed and operationalized, creating sustainable infrastructure to measure results, identify improvements, and hold programs accountable. This work enables Los Angeles to track progress and optimize resource deployment, advancing toward a future where all Angelenos have the safety and dignity of a home.Â
