Fallout of Skid Row Housing Trust collapse big and small: broken promises, homelessness, lost dentures
1 year, 2 months ago

Fallout of Skid Row Housing Trust collapse big and small: broken promises, homelessness, lost dentures

LA Times  

Marvin Danzey III, 58, outside the Lincoln Hotel on Skid Row in September. Ann Sewill, general manager of the Los Angeles Housing Department, said that after the Dewey was deemed uninhabitable its residents were no longer officially considered Skid Row Housing Trust tenants. Becky Schlikerman, a spokesperson for the county Department of Public Health, said the county responded to a “humanitarian issue” by providing temporary housing that maintained former Dewey residents’ connections to healthcare. Sewill said eight Dewey tenants had since been given permanent housing at other Skid Row Housing Trust buildings and five remained at the Vagabond. “Their actual rights are not considered.” Schlikerman said the county will continue to fund the temporary housing for the former Dewey tenants and there’s no timeline for them to leave.

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Why Leo Pustilnikov is buying 1,500 Skid Row apartments and wants to build thousands more
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Why Leo Pustilnikov is buying 1,500 Skid Row apartments and wants to build thousands more

LA Times  

Leo Pustilnikov, a 38-year-old developer who is in line to purchase 17 supportive housing buildings owned by the Skid Row Housing Trust, in his Beverly Hills office in July. :: Thirteen years ago, Pustilnikov began working for real estate investor Naty Saidoff, whose company owned thousands of apartments in California and Texas, serving as chief negotiator for his boss’ entrance …

In Skid Row, a 19-story residential tower for homeless people will offer gym, cafe, art studio
7 months ago

In Skid Row, a 19-story residential tower for homeless people will offer gym, cafe, art studio

LA Times  

“We’re trying to make our little corner of the world look and feel a little better,” says Kevin Murray, president and chief executive of Weingart Center Assn. “We’re trying to make our little corner of the world look and feel a little better,” said Kevin Murray, president and chief executive of Weingart Center Assn. Murray, a former state senator who …

A deal to buy Skid Row homeless housing fell apart. Here’s why vulnerable tenants and taxpayers are at risk
8 months, 2 weeks ago

A deal to buy Skid Row homeless housing fell apart. Here’s why vulnerable tenants and taxpayers are at risk

LA Times  

Marvin Danzey III, a tenant at Skid Row Housing Trust’s Lincoln Hotel, is shown outside the building in September. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation had reached a deal this month to buy six buildings owned by the Skid Row Housing Trust for $27 million in a receivership sale. Jackson Wyche, a senior project manager with Receivership Specialists, the firm managing the …

Controversial landlord wants to buy six more troubled Skid Row properties
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Controversial landlord wants to buy six more troubled Skid Row properties

LA Times  

A half dozen properties that are owned by a failed Skid Row landlord should be sold to the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the court-ordered receiver overseeing the buildings said, despite the Hollywood-based nonprofit’s problematic history of operating low-income housing. The foundation has agreed to pay $27 million for six properties owned by the Skid Row Housing Trust, which financially collapsed last …

A controversial AIDS charity seeks to acquire a Skid Row housing portfolio. State officials want to stop it
9 months, 2 weeks ago

A controversial AIDS charity seeks to acquire a Skid Row housing portfolio. State officials want to stop it

LA Times  

The world’s largest AIDS charity has emerged as the leading bidder to take over a portfolio of homeless housing developments on Skid Row, a move that’s drawn the opposition of state housing officials who’ve called attention to the charity’s troubled tenure as a landlord. The Hollywood-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation is looking to acquire properties, mostly old single-room occupancy hotels, owned …

How problems at two of Skid Row’s largest landlords threaten to worsen L.A.’s homelessness crisis
1 year ago

How problems at two of Skid Row’s largest landlords threaten to worsen L.A.’s homelessness crisis

LA Times  

Blaine Heffron, 36, who has lived in Skid Row Housing Trust and AIDS Healthcare Foundation single-room occupancy hotels, stands outside the foundation’s King Edward Hotel in May. Two of L.A.’s largest landlords of SROs and other low-rent units in Skid Row, the Skid Row Housing Trust and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, have struggled to make the 2,700 units they manage …

Taxpayer rescue of Skid Row’s largest landlord nears $40 million
1 year, 1 month ago

Taxpayer rescue of Skid Row’s largest landlord nears $40 million

LA Times  

James Porter, a longtime resident of the Sanborn Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, complains that the floors are filthy and the environment is unsafe at the Skid Row Housing Trust building. Los Angeles city taxpayer costs to rescue the failed nonprofit Skid Row Housing Trust are now expected to approach $40 million, with officials warning more dollars will be needed …

The Times’ investigations into Skid Row’s troubled housing providers
1 year, 1 month ago

The Times’ investigations into Skid Row’s troubled housing providers

LA Times  

Skid Row Housing Trust and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation have been two of the largest landlords in Skid Row, operating more than 3,000 apartments combined for formerly homeless residents. For Skid Row Housing Trust, which had widely been lauded for decades as the model supportive housing operator, its financial collapse was the result of years of mismanagement that led to …

$60-million state grant to aid L.A. County in expanding homeless services in Skid Row
1 year, 6 months ago

$60-million state grant to aid L.A. County in expanding homeless services in Skid Row

LA Times  

Prince Thomas III, who is unhoused, stands in front of a row of tents and enclosures in Los Angeles’ Skid Row. A $60-million state grant recently awarded to L.A. County’s Department of Health Services will jump-start a plan to provide interim housing and services for more than half of Skid Row’s homeless population over the next three years. L.A. County …

Los Angeles city officials consider ousting Skid Row Housing Trust receiver
1 year, 6 months ago

Los Angeles city officials consider ousting Skid Row Housing Trust receiver

LA Times  

Sanborn Hotel Apartments in downtown Los Angeles is one of the 29 buildings owned by the nonprofit Skid Row Housing Trust, which has fallen behind on maintenance and slashed staffing and security. Los Angeles city officials are recommending the removal of a receiver brought on to rehabilitate 29 distressed buildings operated by the defunct Skid Row Housing Trust and oversee …

Judge characterizes skid row housing receivership as ‘a mess’ for 1,500 tenants
1 year, 6 months ago

Judge characterizes skid row housing receivership as ‘a mess’ for 1,500 tenants

LA Times  

In his own words, the judge was between “a rock and a hard place.” The receiver he had appointed to bring 29 dilapidated buildings up to code was drowning in debt and blaming the city of Los Angeles for his failure to borrow additional funds. “I don’t know how much problem solving has been going on.” Beckloff repeatedly urged more …

Skid Row receivership in danger of financial collapse, leaving 1,500 tenants at risk
1 year, 6 months ago

Skid Row receivership in danger of financial collapse, leaving 1,500 tenants at risk

LA Times  

A man pushes a cart with his belongings past the 649 Lofts on Los Angeles’ Skid Row in April. The financial circumstances have become so dire that Mark Adams, the receiver in charge of 29 properties owned by Skid Row Housing Trust, is asking for emergency action from a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, or else he said he’ll …

String of eviction notices leads to growing concerns about Skid Row receiver
1 year, 7 months ago

String of eviction notices leads to growing concerns about Skid Row receiver

LA Times  

People walk past the Skid Row Housing Trust-owned Dewey Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, where the windows were boarded up after a fire. Hydee Feldstein Soto deemed the eviction notices illegal and said the apparent blunder is contributing to an erosion of the city’s confidence in Mark Adams, the receiver appointed by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge in April …

Evictions, homelessness, debt: Skid Row Housing Trust receiver has checkered history
1 year, 7 months ago

Evictions, homelessness, debt: Skid Row Housing Trust receiver has checkered history

LA Times  

The Trails End Mobile Home Park in Fresno was a shelter of last resort for many of its residents — single parents, retirees, day laborers, people struggling with disabilities or simply to get by. The situation, city officials pleaded in court documents, had become an “impending humanitarian crisis.” And Adams, they said, was singularly qualified for the receivership role because …

Overdose deaths at Skid Row Housing Trust building hint at wider problem
1 year, 9 months ago

Overdose deaths at Skid Row Housing Trust building hint at wider problem

LA Times  

Wayne Cowings Jr., who lives in a tent on skid row in downtown Los Angeles, says he uses drugs laced with fentanyl and has overdosed many times. Just a few blocks away, three people were found dead this week of drug overdoses, possible related to fentanyl, at a Skid Row Housing Trust property. Cecilia Montoya saw body bags being pushed …

All 29 Skid Row Housing Trust buildings placed under receivership
1 year, 9 months ago

All 29 Skid Row Housing Trust buildings placed under receivership

LA Times  

The Dewey Hotel, a Skid Row Housing Trust property, is seen in March in Los Angeles. All 29 buildings operated by the nonprofit Skid Row Housing Trust have been placed into receivership after many of them fell into extreme disrepair and reports of drug use became widespread. The ruling comes two days after three people died of drug overdoses in …

L.A. seeks receivership for Skid Row Housing Trust’s 29 distressed buildings
1 year, 9 months ago

L.A. seeks receivership for Skid Row Housing Trust’s 29 distressed buildings

LA Times  

In a desperate move to reverse deteriorating conditions for more than 1,500 low-income tenants, the Los Angeles city attorney asked a judge Thursday to appoint a receiver for distressed residential buildings operated by the failing nonprofit Skid Row Housing Trust. City plans intervention Los Angeles housing officials are planning to step in with immediate help to stabilize residential buildings that …

Bad bets, dysfunction: Inside the collapse of the Skid Row Housing Trust
1 year, 9 months ago

Bad bets, dysfunction: Inside the collapse of the Skid Row Housing Trust

LA Times  

In 2016, hoarding by the tenants of more than two dozen downtown residential buildings had become so pervasive that employees felt it posed a health and safety hazard. By then, Skid Row Housing Trust had left a trail of disillusioned former employees who found that its business practices did not match its lofty mission of “serving the poorest and most …

A homeless housing nonprofit’s buildings are in shambles. City plans intervention
1 year, 9 months ago

A homeless housing nonprofit’s buildings are in shambles. City plans intervention

LA Times  

Juan Smith lives in room at the Sanborn Hotel Apartments with a door that doesn’t close. Ann Sewill, general manager of the Los Angeles Housing Department, said she will seek City Council authorization to exercise the city’s power as a creditor to take control over at least some of the trust’s buildings and provide security and management as needed. The …

Editorial: Skid Row Housing Trust’s downfall is a teachable moment for L.A., not a reason to give up
1 year, 10 months ago

Editorial: Skid Row Housing Trust’s downfall is a teachable moment for L.A., not a reason to give up

LA Times  

For decades, single-room occupancy hotels in downtown Los Angeles made up the only available and affordable housing for the poorest of the poor. Eventually Skid Row Housing Trust would become one of the largest and best-known producers of desperately needed permanent supportive housing on skid row. Skid Row Housing Trust’s downfall is a cautionary tale of what can go wrong …

One of Skid Row’s largest housing providers faces financial implosion
1 year, 11 months ago

One of Skid Row’s largest housing providers faces financial implosion

LA Times  

Skid row’s flagship owner and operator of subsidized housing is on the verge of financial collapse and seeking a lifeline to keep its doors open for more than a thousand low-income tenants. Skid Row Housing Trust, a pioneer in the decades-old movement to revive aging downtown real estate as homeless housing, has been working with other housing providers to take …

Skid Row: Inside the epicentre of LA’s homeless and crystal meth crisis
3 years, 3 months ago

Skid Row: Inside the epicentre of LA’s homeless and crystal meth crisis

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Crystal meth, brought in by Mexican cartels and distributed …

Appeals court vacates order to house those on L.A. skid row
3 years, 3 months ago

Appeals court vacates order to house those on L.A. skid row

LA Times  

A federal appeals court on Thursday unanimously overturned a judge’s decision that would have required Los Angeles to offer some form of shelter or housing to the entire homeless population of skid row by October. Mike Feuer, who is running for mayor, called Thursday’s ruling “an important victory” but also argued that government officials need to share Carter’s “intense sense …

What to do about Skid Row
3 years, 7 months ago

What to do about Skid Row

The Economist  

Listen to this story. Asked how she spends her days, she fires off four words: “Shower, wash, read, pray.” Ms McNichols lives surrounded by her possessions on the street in front of the Union Rescue Mission, a non-profit that serves the homeless of Los Angeles’s Skid Row. According to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, an average of 207 people …

Podcast: Federal judge to Los Angeles: House your homeless, or else
3 years, 8 months ago

Podcast: Federal judge to Los Angeles: House your homeless, or else

LA Times  

Julián Castro, the former secretary of Housing and Urban Development, visits skid row in 2019. Then last month, a federal judge issued an order: House everyone in skid row, the historical epicenter of homelessness in Los Angeles. We speak with L.A. Times housing reporter Ben Oreskes and the Rev. Andy Bales, who runs Union Rescue Mission on skid row, about …

Skid row is skeptical of judge’s order to sweep homeless people into shelters
3 years, 8 months ago

Skid row is skeptical of judge’s order to sweep homeless people into shelters

LA Times  

U.S. District Judge David O. Carter’s order to Los Angeles officials to sweep homeless people off skid row into shelters or housing is grounded in his conviction that a wrongheaded focus on creating permanent housing has perpetuated racism, spread encampments and caused the avoidable deaths of Black people. The promised resources vaporized, and “we know how that turned out,” said …

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