Housing and Utilities

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Help for Homeless Veterans

Temporary Housing and Food

Whittier First Day

Provides a short-term emergency transitional housing with on site supportive services. List of local shelters and meals.

Path: Making It Home

Offers temporary and permanent housing; linkages to healthcare, job centers; and other supportive services. Hotline (562)373-5264

Los Angeles County Housing Resources for Veterans

Find shelters, rentals, apply for HUD/Section 8 and more.

FoodPantries.org

An online directory of food pantries, soup kitchens and non-profit organizations that provide food.

Cal Fresh

The CalFresh Program, federally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), can add to your food budget to put healthy and nutritious food on the table. The program issues monthly electronic benefits that can be used to buy most foods at many markets and food stores.


Utilities

California LifeLine Program

Offers basic home phone service at a discount. (Note: May only participate in one LifeLine program.)

Federal LifeLine Program

Offers either basic home phone service or wireless service.\

Edison CARE/FERA Programs

Offers the California Alternate Rates for Energy (CARE) and Family Electric Rate Assistance (FERA) programs to provide income-qualified customers with bill relief.


Home Ownership and Permanent Housing

CalVet Home Loans

Through resilient outreach, state-wide collaboratives, strong partnerships, advocacy, and services for all California veterans, CalVet has established an aggressive and proactive leadership role in the fight to make sure that all veterans and their families have housing options that fulfill their needs.

Habitat for Humanity - Greater Los Angeles

Habitat for Humanity offers a Veterans Build program which works with veteran partner families to provide affordable homeownership opportunities. They also can provide help with home repair and weatherization.

Homestrong

A non-profit organization that helps with loan modifications, buyer education and housing programs.

VA Home Loans

Find out about home loan guaranty benefits and other housing-related programs to help buy, build, repair, retain, or adapt a home for personal occupancy.