Celebrities Donate Big Check to LA’s Tiny Home Village for the Homeless
LOS ANGELES As a local nonprofit prepares to open the largest tiny home community in California designed to provide temporary housing for the homeless in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley, celebrities and officials gathered to celebrate the event and promote fundraising efforts.
Actor Jon Cryer and his wife, local entertainment reporter Lisa Joyner, said they wanted to do something to address the growing homeless population in Los Angeles. After extensive research, the couple donated $85,000 to Hope of the Valley for the creation of its latest Tiny Home Village in Alexandria Park.
“I need to call you back. They are telling me I need to leave.”
A week ago, Olga was living in a tent along Echo Park Lake. I’d reached her at the hotel to which she had been relocated after being ousted from the park along with roughly 200 other homeless people who had built a commune-like encampment that, depending on whom you ask, was either a safe space or a haven for criminals.
When it became clear that city officials intended to shut down the encampment where she had been living for months, Olga willingly if reluctantly climbed aboard a bus bound for what she thought was a temporary apartment that could, one day, become her permanent residence. It wasn’t quite what she expected.
Faculty at USC, UCLA, UC Irvine and Occidental College penned a letter to Mayor Eric Garcetti and the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday to express their "grave and urgent concerns" about the city's removal of approximately 200 unhoused Angelenos living at Echo Park Lake.
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