Lamp Community permanently ends homelessness, improves health, and builds self-sufficiency among homeless men and women living with severe mental illness.

Each night, more than 88,000 homeless people in Los Angeles County seek shelter on streets, in encampments, or in vehicles. It is estimated that between one-third and one-half of L.A’s homeless people struggle with serious mental illness.

Lamp Community is based in the Skid Row area of Downtown Los Angeles and is nationally recognized for providing immediate housing and lifelong supportive services to homeless men and women with a severe mental illness—many of whom have been homeless for as long as a decade.

For 22 years, Lamp Community has been bringing light to homeless men and women with mental illness. Our housing and services provide people with tools and resources that transform their lives.