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NoHo Home Alliance
The heightened presence of ICE in Los Angeles is close to home for all of us at NoHo Home Alliance. When the raids started, we saw an opportunity to take action instead of just watching the harm in front of us: we feed nearly 100 people each day, and our immigrant community members have food they want to sell but cannot.
We reached out to connect with street vendors in North Hollywood & the Valley who are not able to sell on the streets at risk of being targeted for deportation. Within one week, our community donated $2,300 to directly purchase food from 3 street vendors in the San Fernando Valley, food which we served to our guests at our Drop-In Access Center for People Experiencing Homelessness (our guests certainly love our weekly meals, but they love-loved these burritos).
When purchasing food can keep one group fed and another family housed, we think the money couldn’t be better spent. We’re compelled to continue directing our resources to meet two needs, in service of each other. Thanks to the overwhelming response from our community, we are making this effort — which we’re calling Eats to the Streets — a sustained program. We are raising $20,000 to keep purchasing from street vendors while feeding our unhoused neighbors, for the next year.
The impacts of this time of fear and violent harm to Angeleno families will be felt for many months to come, and we’re bracing for how these deportations will impact the people who need our services: reports predict that the economic damage of this mass deportation will directly contribute to people becoming homeless as they are unable to pay rent.
Now is the time for us to invest in our neighbors, and help take care of each other, not just during the immediate crisis, but in sustained, on-going ways. Join us in doing what we can to keep our community whole.
The heightened presence of ICE in Los Angeles is close to home for all of us at NoHo Home Alliance. When the raids started, we saw an opportunity to take action instead of just watching the harm in front of us: we feed nearly 100 people each day, and our immigrant community members have food they want to sell but cannot.
We reached out to connect with street vendors in North Hollywood & the Valley who are not able to sell on the streets at risk of being targeted for deportation. Within one week, our community donated $2,300 to directly purchase food from 3 street vendors in the San Fernando Valley, food which we served to our guests at our Drop-In Access Center for People Experiencing Homelessness (our guests certainly love our weekly meals, but they love-loved these burritos).
When purchasing food can keep one group fed and another family housed, we think the money couldn’t be better spent. We’re compelled to continue directing our resources to meet two needs, in service of each other. Thanks to the overwhelming response from our community, we are making this effort — which we’re calling Eats to the Streets — a sustained program. We are raising $20,000 to keep purchasing from street vendors while feeding our unhoused neighbors, for the next year.
The impacts of this time of fear and violent harm to Angeleno families will be felt for many months to come, and we’re bracing for how these deportations will impact the people who need our services: reports predict that the economic damage of this mass deportation will directly contribute to people becoming homeless as they are unable to pay rent.
Now is the time for us to invest in our neighbors, and help take care of each other, not just during the immediate crisis, but in sustained, on-going ways. Join us in doing what we can to keep our community whole.