2024 Year in Review: Redondo Beach Homeless, police, fire housed, State housing plan blocked
City reaches “Functional Zero” homelessness “Functional Zero” means, for a given area, the number of homeless people placed in housing (interim or permanent) is higher than the number who become homeless in a six-month period. The South Bay Cities Council of Governments deemed that Redondo Beach reached the mark in 2024. It is the first city in Los Angeles County to do so – according to the Council of Governments’ parameters. In a ceremony Oct. 30 at the Redondo Beach historic library, L.A. County Supervisor Holly Mitchell gave her congratulations and set her sights higher. “Functional zero, countywide,” she said. “There, I said it.” The designation also requires a city’s median homeless time on the streets to be less than 90 days. The Council of Government’s (SBCCOG) Functional Zero pilot program sets benchmarks of accountability based on data collected and analyzed weekly by staff. This includes names, duration without a home, demographics and psychographics. In Redondo Beach numbers, from January to June, the SBCCOG recorded 65 homeless people, and an outflow of 66 – meaning those moved into housing. Median time on the street was 14 days, with 25 active local street cases, down…
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