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“When a city takes a tent, it just means that in the heat of the day in Skid Row that unhoused residents have nothing to shelter them. But it doesn’t mean that an encampment has been reduced. It just means that unhoused folks have lost their belongings.”

Since its founding in 2018, Ktown for All has focused most of its efforts on advocating for Koreatown’s unhoused population and distributing resources such as water, blankets, laundry kits and prepared foods.

In April, the Los Angeles Unhoused Response Academy, Laura for short, welcomed 15 fellows as part of its second cohort.

D’Zmura said her experience with homelessness as a child motivated her in the past to volunteer to help unhoused people, but there was also so much she didn’t know before joining the fellowship, including the nuts and bolts of how to navigate a complicated web of agencies and services.

The agreement, reached in 2022 between the city and the alliance, requires the city to provide 12,915 beds for its unhoused population by June 2027.