LA County Approves More Than $500 Million in Homeless Spending
LOS ANGELES, Calif. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on July 13 approved $527.1 million in funding for strategies to battle homelessness in fiscal year 2021-22, while expressing frustration over the rising numbers of people living on the street.
Despite the massive inflow of cash from Measure H and dozens of carefully crafted initiatives that make up the county’s homeless initiative, visible encampments continue to grow and the situation on the street remains dire.
Supervisor Kathryn Barger highlighted one sobering statistic, noting that 739 homeless people died in Los Angeles County in the first six months of 2021.
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Outreach teams with St. Joseph s Center which brought 104 people inside with a promise from the city of a pathway to permanent housing requested more time to transition people into housing. The city extended the deadline for people to leave the zone to next Friday, when Zone 4, between Rose and Dudley avenues, will also be cleared. City sanitation crews on the Venice Beach boardwalk were seen clearing out homeless encampments as part of a six-week plan to return public space to the public. John Cádiz Klemack reports for NBC4 News at 8 p.m. on July 2, 2021. For the current zone, Zone 5, since it is one of our larger zones and tends to have more complex structures and personal belongings, St. Joe s requested more time in that zone to help people sort their items and get them ready to transition to housing, Bonin s Deputy Chief of Staff David Graham-Caso told City News Service.
Cleanup begins along Venice Boardwalk, deadline extended for unhoused residents to leave area
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Cleanup begins along the Venice Boardwalk
Sanitation workers took to the streets Friday to clean a portion of the Venice Boardwalk where a large homeless encampment developed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
LOS ANGELES - Sanitation workers took to the streets Friday to clean a portion of the Venice Boardwalk where a large homeless encampment developed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The deadline for removing unhoused residents, who will not accept housing, has been extended
an additional week.
The deadline to leave Zone 5, between Navy Street and Rose Avenue, was initially set for 7 a.m. Friday.
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