Across California, groups of people who have experienced homelessness are turning away from state-organized aid to create their own solutions to homelessness. This weekend, Los Angeles-based activist groups are raising awareness and funds to try and replicate “Homefulness,” a community-run housing model from Oakland.
“It’s time that we recognize our own capabilities. That we are able to meet the needs of our communities directly,” said Carla Orendorff, a San Fernando Valley-based organizer.
Orendorff is part of Aetna Street Solidarity, a community that organizes against the criminalization of the poor, and Street Views, an autonomous newspaper published by unhoused community members, mutual-aid organizers and allied activists in LA that aims to “amplify the voices of those on the streets.”…