SOUTH LOS ANGELES – This week nine homeless families are moving into 10 trailers located in a city-owned parking lot on South Broadway. The shelter, is a weight off the shoulders of Aniesha Culbreath.

“We have two bunk beds here, more storage down here they have a fully working and functioning bathroom,” says Culbreath.

She has been a case worker for rapid rehousing with St. Joseph’s Center for almost four years, and the trailer she is showing will go to helping her latest clients – a homeless mother and her three kids aged 8, 10 and 12.

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“They’re currently living in their vehicle they sneak places to take showers, sometimes they go to McDonalds to wash up. So for them, this going to be safe haven. They have everything they need,” says Culbreath.

Up until recently, the trailers were helping address another California crisis, the wildfires. Firefighters used the trailers during the Camp fire, then Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order to bring the trailers from Northern California to L.A. County to use them for transitional housing.

“They are not simply to be used for wildfires, they are to be used right now to assist us in our effort to confront the homeless crisis by bringing people indoors,” said LA County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas.

Nine families will benefit from the Safe Landing project, a drop in the bucket as L.A. County’s homeless population is pushing 58,000. But Supervisor Ridley-Thomas says, more help is on the way:

“100 such trailers are being moved throughout the state of California and 30 of them are in LA County,” said Ridley-Thomas.

The additional 20 trailers will be placed in Crenshaw and Exposition Park. Culbreath says it makes a difference.

“This is going to give them an opportunity to get out of their car and actually sleep in a bed, restore some of their dignity back, to be able to take a shower when they want to, lay down, go to sleep, and wake up in their own space,” said Culbreath.

A space that for now is still just a trailer, but over the next few days will become a home.