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By City News Service Feb 4, 2021 LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Los Angeles officials told the City Council today that they're making progress on initiatives to ease homelessness in the city. Ann Sewill, general manager of the Housing and Community Investment Department, briefed the council on the status of Proposition HHH, which was approved by voters in November 2016 and was designed to increase supportive housing production from 300 units a year to 1,000 every year for 10 years. Sewill said the city is working on 124 Proposition HHH-funded projects, with a total of 7,961 in the pipeline -- 961 more ...

MORE KCRW follows the money into a city-funded homeless housing project and finds evictions, inflated costs, and an LA real estate developer with a long and troubled history. Who in city government is paying attention? The closed down, partly renovated motel at 1906 W. 3rd Street in LA’s Westlake neighborhood long served as a place for people without much money to find shelter. And that’s what it’ll be again when its current refurbishment is done: 136 subsidized units for homeless veterans, called the West Third Apartments. This transformation of low-income housing into ...