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How Hollywood Is Helping Homeless College Students in L.A. Get Housing and Finish School

Supporters of four-year-old nonprofit Los Angeles Room and Board, which runs residences with wrap-around services and home-cooked meals, include John and Marilyn Wells, Algee Smith and Stevie Mackey.

Hollywood power players are taking notice of the nonprofit group Los Angeles Room & Board, which works to provide housing, meals and support to college students experiencing homelessness in L.A. “ Los Angeles Room & Board is the model by which we should be helping each other,” singer and The Voice vocal coach Stevie Mackey tells The Hollywood Reporte r. “They provide way more than a home. While earning his doctorate in educational leadership and policy at California State University, he worked with the Dean of Students Office where he managed the Basic Needs Initiative.

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