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MORE The LA Grand Hotel Downtown is the largest Project Roomkey site in the state sheltering nearly 500 unhoused people. Photo by Anna Scott.
As the COVID-19 swept the U.S. in early 2020, cities across California participated in a statewide program called Project Roomkey to rent out hotels as temporary shelter for medically vulnerable people experiencing homelessness. LA officials also aimed to use the initiative and its one-time funding as a springboard to permanent housing for tens of thousands of unhoused people. Project Roomkey is scheduled to end by September 30, and some participants argue it hasn’t lived up to its promises.
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I’m not familiar with the author of this piece. Ned Resnikoff is the “policy manager for the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative at the University of California, San Francisco.” Today he has an opinion piece in the NY Times which argues along the typical lines you hear from activists, i.e. homelessness is about lack of affordable housing. He mentions drug abuse and mental heath once but only to dismiss them as significant factors.
It should never have gotten this bad. Homelessness is solvable. Its primary driver is housing unaffordability (not a sudden recent increase in mental illness or substance use disorder, despite claims to the contrary), and so the solution has always been more housing, particularly for those who don’t currently have it. But California has allowed homelessness to metastasize over the past few decades. As the humanitarian crisis has gotten worse, it has become a political crisis. Homelessness is one of the major themes
160 people once living on Venice boardwalk to find permanent housing, Mike Bonin says
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Los Angeles Councilman Mike Bonin said Monday that 160 people who were living along the Venice boardwalk have been brought inside and accepted the city s offer of a pathway to permanent housing.
Bonin s Encampment to Home program began on June 28. The program promises all residents who accept shelter a pathway to permanent housing in an effort to clear the Venice boardwalk, where a large encampment developed during the pandemic.
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Outreach teams with St. Joseph s Center have offered services and housing to encampment residents section-by-section. As of last Friday, residents were offered housing and were required to leave the area from Windward Avenue to Park Avenue and from Navy Street to Sunset Avenue. This week, teams are offering housing to residents between Sunset and Park avenues, and those who do not accept will be required to
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