South Bay leaders have put a new homelessness playbook on the table for Los Angeles County, rolling out a compact regional action plan that aims to finally sort out who is responsible for what and how local systems connect. The outline, presented Monday to the county’s Executive Committee for Regional Homeless Alignment, promises clearer lines between city and county duties and a tighter link between prevention, mental health treatment and on-the-street outreach. The proposal lands just as Measure A dollars start flowing and local officials push for both accountability and tools they can control at the city level.
What the plan would change
According to the South Bay Cities Council of Governments, the regional action plan "clarifies the roles of cities and the county while defining how key system components, such as prevention, mental health services, and outreach, work together." The group says Redondo Beach Councilmember Paige Kaluderovic helped present the outline to the county committee. Kaluderovic is listed as a sitting Redondo Beach councilmember on the city’s official roster, according to the City of Redondo Beach.
County framework and accountability
The Executive Committee for Regional Homeless Alignment, the county body created to develop a single regional plan, set common performance indicators and align resources, is the forum where the South Bay proposal was presented, according to the committee's governance page on the Executive Committee for Regional Homeless Alignment. The county's Measure A framework, which channels more than $1 billion a year into homelessness services and local solutions, sets the funding rules and metric requirements that will be used to judge any regional plan, according to LA County Measure A.
South Bay's recent work
The South Bay Cities Council of Governments has already been rolling out regionally coordinated tools, from a Functional Zero pilot in Redondo Beach to a Client Aid program that covers security deposits and short-term needs, and it reports preliminary declines in street homelessness in the subregion, as detailed by SBCCOG. The organization says it is managing increased Measure A allocations to expand case management and tiny home investments in Torrance. As one sign of local buy-in, the Redondo Beach City Council recently voted to support a South Bay housing trust concept, according to coverage in Easy Reader.
What comes next
The plan now moves into the county's coordination process, where the Executive Committee and its Leadership Table will sort out how local proposals line up with Measure A goals and metrics. If approved, the framework could shift which agencies run outreach teams and how mental health treatment slots are prioritized across the South Bay. Officials say the nuts and bolts of implementation, including who manages case loads and how prevention dollars are spent, will be hammered out at future county and subregional meetings.
