SELAH Neighborhood Homeless Coalition

SELAH Neighborhood Homeless Coalition's mission is to build a community-led response to homelessness in Los Angeles that addresses the needs of our most vulnerable neighbors and activates an empowered coalition of participants, volunteers and partners.

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Greer Little started volunteering with SELAH in 2020 at age 17. From the beginning, she distinguished herself as a remarkably passionate and committed volunteer. Greer has gone above and beyond by working every role within SELAH's programming to get a better grasp of all the services offered by SELAH, while also working to understand more about the housing crisis in their own neighborhood. She has built deep relationships with the unhoused community participants, often checking in on them outside of volunteer hours. Outside of SELAH, they work to educate their peers about housing and homelessness in LA, furthering the SELAH mission of destigmatizing homelessness and educating the public about the root, systemic causes of homelessness. As a young Black person born and raised in the community SELAH serves, they have profoundly impacted SELAH not only by contributing significant time, dedication and relationship-building, but also by generously sharing their insights and working to make SELAH a more inclusive place. Greer is currently working on a documentary project titled The Making of White Neighborhoods: Mobilizing Black Bodies and the Construction of Absence, exploring Black belonging in LA, focusing on the neighborhoods of Silverlake and Los Feliz. They write, “The project was inspired by many things-the re-passing of 41.18, the BLM protests of 2020, and especially by SELAH as the first place where I built community among Black people in the neighborhood. The Black participants I met on-site during the pandemic made me feel at home.” Greer’s profound and necessary contributions make SELAH a home for herself and others in the community.