Posts tagged Community Action

Just Forty Dollars a Night | Letters to the Housed by Paul Asplund

A few years ago, I got on a call with a man named Scott Sale. He had an idea I'd never heard anyone put into practical terms before: what if we used the parking lots that sit empty every night and made them a first stop for people who had lost their housing but still had their car?

Community, Homelessness, Letters to the Housed, Vehicular HomelessnessPaul AsplundMay 4, 2026EndHomelessness, HousingJustice, RadicalHospitality, SystemicChange, Community ActionComment

The Six Prototypes: What SPA 4 Designed from Letters to the Housed by Paul Asplund

Over two days in September 2025, approximately 100 of us from Service Planning Area 4 gathered to reimagine LA County's homelessness response. We didn't know it then, but we were designing a lifeboat while watching the Titanic sink.