ADVISORY/November 13, LA Convention Center: Top Region Leaders to Meet to Address a 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness Crisis in Los Angeles Region.

News Editors/City Desks

ADVISORY...for Thursday (November 13)

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Bring LA home, the partnership to end Homelessness in Los Angeles,
which includes many of the top leaders in the community will gather
Thursday, November 13 at the Los Angeles Convention Center for their
first meeting in a joint effort to develop a realistic 10-year plan to
end homelessness in Los Angeles. Bring LA Home is a blue ribbon panel
of 65 top community leaders including: Los Angeles Mayor Jim Hahn, Los
Angeles County Supervisors Yvonne Brathwaite Burke and Zev
Yaroslavsky, LAPD Chief William Bratton, Sheriff Lee Baca, Los Angeles
City Councilmembers Antonio Villaragosa, Jan Perry, Wendy Greuel and
Eric Garcetti, Mayors of cities throughout the County, Episcopal
Bishop Jon Bruno, First AME Rev. Cecil R. Murray, business executives,
leading experts, social activists and formerly homeless individuals.
This will be the inaugural meeting in their quest to develop a plan to
end homelessness in Los Angeles over the next 10 years.

WHO:    65 of Los Angeles' top leaders.

WHAT:   First meeting of the Bring LA Home panel to create a plan to
        end homelessness in Los Angeles by the year 2014

WHERE:  Los Angeles Convention Center, West Hall:
        1201 S. Figueroa Avenue, Los Angeles, enter West Lobby
        Broadcast Trucks can park on Gilbert Lindsey Plaza (N/W corner
        of Figueroa & Pico)

WHEN:   THURSDAY, November 13, 2003
        10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
        Media arrivals and pre-meeting interviews 9:45 a.m.

WHY:    There are more than 84,000 homeless people in Los Angeles
        County every night. Gathered together they would be the 17th
        largest of the County's 84 municipalities. Some 236,000 men,
        women and children are homeless at some point during the year.
        This panel will consider reports from experts, testimonials
        from people who have experienced homelessness and input from
        members of the community over the course of the next year in
        an effort to create a realistic, functional plan with a goal
        of ending homelessness in Los Angeles by the year 2014.

        This will be the first of four scheduled meetings over the
        course of the next year.