Homeless family of 18 now off streets and getting help with housing in Southern California

LOS ANGELES -- A household of 5 adults and 13 children, including respective toddlers, who had been surviving connected the streets of Los Angeles since September person a harmless spot to enactment arsenic a section nonprofit works to find them housing.

The household members, who are from Honduras, lived successful a tiny structure adjacent MacArthur Park successful Westlake. They fled the state owed to unit 5 years ago, and ended up successful Austin, Texas, but came to L.A. aft losing their lodging owed to issues with their enactment permits.

"One 100 times amended here, to beryllium honest," said Ana Madrid . "Here we person the accidental to beryllium amended to get a licence and work."

For months, the hubby and woman and their 2 children had been connected the streets on with 3 big cousins, and 11 different children, including an 8-month-old baby.

Madrid said the sidewalk is wherever they spent Christmas, New Year's Eve and days successful the rain.

"To usage the restroom, if we didn't person money, we couldn't usage it, and we had to beg radical to fto america usage it," said Madrid. "It's a precise bittersweet situation."

Her husband, Jorge Luis Garcia, said his children hadn't been capable to spell to schoolhouse due to the fact that different children person attacked him outside.

Madrid said the household had spoken with Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, but due to the fact that the household is truthful large, it was hard placing them somewhere.

However, bully quality came Thursday afternoon.

The Dream Center said it became alert of the family's concern and said it would beryllium capable to spot them successful a shelter.

"Thank God this volition present pass," said Madrid.

The structure connected Alvardo Street was taken down Friday arsenic the household was relocated.

The Dream Center, a assets halfway focused connected providing enactment to those affected by homelessness, is helping the household with housing, daycare, jobs and migration paperwork.

"The Dream Center has ever tried to respond swiftly to supply solutions successful each concern particularly wherever children unrecorded connected the streets," the enactment said successful a statement. "It's ever a joyful infinitesimal erstwhile you tin supply a harmless spot for families to instrumentality a heavy enactment from life's struggles and to assistance them rebuild."

Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez besides issued a connection saying, "Our bureau was informed of this household connected Wednesday and instantly made interaction to measure the concern and behaviour an intake. We are actively moving with the family, and a web of spouse agencies, to urgently unafraid resources and lodging for them."

Garcia was precise excited erstwhile ABC7 informed him of the development. He said helium wanted to convey everyone that has helped his family, adding that helium conscionable wants a amended spot for his children.

"What I privation is for them is to beryllium good, to beryllium someone, to study, person a amended beingness and beryllium successful a amended situation," helium said.

While LA County stateless number is underway 1 enactment focuses connected the youth