The announcement, made by the City Council and mayor Eric Garcetti, included plans to pledge 0 million of the city’s budget toward housing projects and other initiatives to help the homeless, the Los Angeles Times reports.
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Garcetti joined the chairs of the Homeless and Poverty Committee and Council President Herb Wesson to discuss how to leverage the spending “to ensure an ongoing revenue stream to support the program”, according to a statement from Wesson’s office. Keith Ackerman, executive director of Cottages at Hickory Crossing, told Huffington Post that the initiative will bring down those costs to less than $13,000 per year.
The Los Angeles City Council announced that the exploding population of homeless people in Los Angeles has created a state of emergency for the city. The majority live on the streets.
“The human suffering that occurs on Skid Row is astonishing – it will literally take your breath away”.
His latest funding proposal, laid out in a letter sent on Monday to the city’s chief administrative officer, calls for providing $5.1 million in short-term rental subsidies to rapidly place homeless veterans into housing.
He said these and other initial steps could “give us the momentum needed to make real progress over the coming year”.
Garcetti said during the news conference in front of City hall that the city “has pushed this problem from neighborhood to neighborhood for too long, from bureaucracy to bureaucracy”.
Garcetti, who is campaigning to attract the 2024 Olympic Games to Los Angeles, added that the homeless problem goes back years and has been marked by futile fights between city and county officials over who bears responsibility.
Much of the $100 million, critics say, will just go to the police in their continuing efforts to displace the homeless from the city.
Annie Moody adjusts belongings next to her tent on Towne Avenue at 6th Street in Los Angeles. He also said they are also needed to prepare for the expected “severe weather conditions from El Nino this year”. “But not on getting people off the sidewalks”.
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The homelessness population in Los Angeles is now so large that officials said Tuesday that they would declare the situation a public emergency.
