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How About $5000 Shelters for the Homeless Instead of Measure HHH @ $530,000 Per Unit?


EASTSIDER-I think the headline says it all. Recently, there are signs the LA City Council may be headed in the right direction, but it’s on a small scale and the question is whether the developers who own the Council can allow a good thing to thrive. 
The Issue 
 
“As part of his far-reaching plan to combat homelessness in Los Angeles, CD 14 Councilmember Kevin de León recently filed a motion that could bring small, prefabricated housing units to two locations in Northeast LA. One location, in Eagle Rock, is the city-owned parking lot at 7541 N. Figueroa Street next to the on/off ramps of the 134 Freeway.”  ....

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CD 14's Kevin de León Rides Again - Misunderstanding the Homeless?


EASTSIDER-First, we have another Superior Court Judge requiring the City to do something about sheltering LA’s homeless.
Then we have CD 14’s Mayor in waiting, Kevin de León, doing his usual not quite right attempt at a solution. Read on. . . 
Here Comes the Judge 
“Carter is overseeing an agreement between Los Angeles city and county governments in a case brought by the L.A. Alliance for Human Rights, a group of downtown business owners and residents that sued to force the city to shelter homeless people. Carter is requiring the city to find temporary shelter or permanent housing (with the county footing the bill) for several thousand homeless people mostly those living under or near freeways, because the judge has decided that it’s unsafe to live near the toxic fumes from vehicles.”  ....

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