Some of Los Angeles' homeless will get apartments that cost more than $600,000. Without a change, LA will have to build thousands fewer apartments.
LOS ANGELES – Having made a deep financial commitment to create housing for some of its 27,000 unsheltered homeless people, Los Angeles is falling short in building new apartments to take thousands of people off the streets, a new study finds.
Housing for LA's homeless opera singer? Kindness fever strikes LA, from homeless singer Emily Zamourka to a new UCLA institute Story continuesWith tents pitched on sidewalks, alleys and along riverbanks, homelessness has become a top issue in Los Angeles, creating public health issues and an eyesore in a city that's long been a tourist destination. President Donald Trump has singled out California for criticism over the homeless problem.
At the time, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti responded by saying if Trump cared about the crisis, he'd be trying to find more federal money to help resolve it. Against that backdrop, Los Angeles had hoped that, to a large extent, it could build its way out of the crisis. The bond measure provides up to $140,000 per unit with the rest coming from other sources. Yet of 19 projects under construction, 60 in pre-development and 35 awaiting city approval, only two are expected to be finished by the end of the year, the study found.
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