Letters to the Editor: I live in Venice. Put more homeless housing in my neighborhood
1 week, 4 days ago

Letters to the Editor: I live in Venice. Put more homeless housing in my neighborhood

LA Times  

Protesters in Venice on July 13 call on L.A. city leaders to help homeless people who they say are being banished from the Westside. To the editor: One of the main reasons I voted for Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was that she seemed totally committed to ending the homelessness crisis in our city. I find it odd and disappointing that she has not publicly endorsed the 117-unit Venice Dell Community, which both the California Coastal Commission staff and L.A. City Council have found to be worthy of support. The long-delayed Venice Dell project could help achieve the goal of providing more housing and services to reduce homelessness.

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Venice homeless housing development continues in limbo as councilmember declares the project dead
1 week, 3 days ago

Venice homeless housing development continues in limbo as councilmember declares the project dead

LA Times  

A homeless man sleeps on a sidewalk in June in front of a parking lot where the Venice Dell project has been planned at Venice Boulevard and Main Street in Venice. A former staffer for Mayor Karen Bass responsible for expediting affordable housing developments told The Times that his superiors directed him to stop advancing Venice Dell through city bureaucracy …

Editorial: It’s past time for city officials to let Venice Dell homeless housing move ahead
2 weeks ago

Editorial: It’s past time for city officials to let Venice Dell homeless housing move ahead

LA Times  

In Los Angeles, a city desperate for homeless housing, one project that will fill some of that need has been unconscionably delayed for years. On Wednesday, the California Coastal Commission will take up the Venice Dell Community project, which will provide 117 units, including 68 for homeless supportive housing and the remainder for low-income affordable housing, on a city-owned 2.65-acre …

L.A. County supervisors reaffirm policy against jailing homeless people after anticamping high court ruling
4 months, 3 weeks ago

L.A. County supervisors reaffirm policy against jailing homeless people after anticamping high court ruling

LA Times  

Tents along Grand Canal Street in Venice a block from where the Venice Dell Project is to be built as housing for homeless people on July 10. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted unanimously to support a motion affirming that its jails won’t be used to hold homeless people arrested in the enforcement of anticamping ordinances. …

L.A. officials continue to stall homeless housing project in Venice, new lawsuit claims
5 months, 1 week ago

L.A. officials continue to stall homeless housing project in Venice, new lawsuit claims

LA Times  

Advocates for low-income housing sued the city of Los Angeles this week, accusing City Councilmember Traci Park, City Atty. The project, known as the Venice Dell, includes 140 units of housing for low-income and formerly homeless residents on what’s now a city-owned parking lot along the neighborhood’s famed canals. “Councilmember Traci Park and City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto, acting on …

Editorial: Mayor Bass has no more excuses for delaying Venice Dell homeless housing
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Editorial: Mayor Bass has no more excuses for delaying Venice Dell homeless housing

LA Times  

Now that some of the most vocal opponents to the much-needed Venice Dell homeless and low-income housing development in Venice have lost their lawsuit to block the project, will this be the last hurdle it has to face in a long and unnecessary obstacle course set by Los Angeles city officials? For more than a year, the project was slowed …

Photos: 2024 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count is underway
10 months, 4 weeks ago

Photos: 2024 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count is underway

LA Times  

The annual three-night Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count is underway with volunteers fanning out to tally the number of unsheltered individuals, tents, vehicles and makeshift shelters they see in their assigned census tract. The 2023 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count revealed a 9% year-over-year increase in homelessness in Los Angeles County and a 10% rise in Los Angeles. While participating …

Editorial: Are L.A. leaders trying to sabotage homeless housing in Venice?
1 year, 4 months ago

Editorial: Are L.A. leaders trying to sabotage homeless housing in Venice?

LA Times  

Rebecca Dannenbaum, 48, and her dog Pop-Tart live in a pedestrian tunnel, to the left, where she and other homeless people have been living. So why is she silent as the city attorney slow-walks, or possibly sabotages, a project for homeless and affordable housing on a city-owned parking lot in Venice? After competitively scoring the applicants, the City Council and …

Amid heavy rain, Bass takes on a huge, long-standing homeless encampment in Venice
1 year, 11 months ago

Amid heavy rain, Bass takes on a huge, long-standing homeless encampment in Venice

LA Times  

Savanna Moran took about an hour to weigh the offer made by homeless outreach workers: Move into a warm motel room about a dozen miles away — but in exchange, give up her tent on Hampton Drive. Encampment residents on Sunset Avenue and Hampton Drive were offered temporary housing as part of Mayor Karen Bass’ Inside Safe initiative. Since then, …

Op-Ed: Listen to the neighbors of homeless encampments. We aren’t just grousing
2 years, 11 months ago

Op-Ed: Listen to the neighbors of homeless encampments. We aren’t just grousing

LA Times  

Tents and temporary structures along the Venice Beach boardwalk last May. After the pandemic hit and the city stopped enforcing anti-camping laws, Venice residents witnessed the rapid proliferation of over 200 tents on the Venice Beach boardwalk this past summer — along with the creation of a major open-air drug scene, along with a triple-digit increase in robberies and soaring …

L.A. wanted the Venice homeless shelter open at full capacity. Now it has a COVID outbreak
3 years, 4 months ago

L.A. wanted the Venice homeless shelter open at full capacity. Now it has a COVID outbreak

LA Times  

At a city-funded homeless shelter in Venice, 37 people have tested positive for the coronavirus in recent weeks — the largest current outbreak in a homeless facility in Los Angeles. “There was a strong recommendation from the city that we ‘recompress,’” said Jennifer Hark-Dietz, deputy chief executive officer and executive director of PATH, a statewide homeless housing and services agency, …

Editorial: Homeless people on Venice Beach got interim housing. Can’t this happen all over the city?
3 years, 4 months ago

Editorial: Homeless people on Venice Beach got interim housing. Can’t this happen all over the city?

LA Times  

Over the course of six weeks, service providers aided by local officials moved 211 homeless people who had camped along the Venice boardwalk for more than a year. But according to city officials and the service providers at the nonprofit St. Joseph Center, which carried out the plan to move the beach dwellers into temporary housing, the police supported their …

LA's Venice Beach a flashpoint in city's homeless crisis
3 years, 4 months ago

LA's Venice Beach a flashpoint in city's homeless 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. “Thank God it’s getting cleared up," de Russy said, …

Voices from the homeless community along Venice Boulevard
3 years, 4 months ago

Voices from the homeless community along Venice Boulevard

LA Times  

When we talk about the homeless population, we tend to focus on people who are mentally ill or under the influence of drugs or alcohol. It never got physical; if it looked like it was going to get that way, I’d leave, drive around town. She lives with me, in the tent.. And we just got a little dog — …

Op-Ed: L.A. officials let homelessness overwhelm Venice
3 years, 5 months ago

Op-Ed: L.A. officials let homelessness overwhelm Venice

LA Times  

There is a disaster unfolding in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles. Instead, the Los Angeles City Council set aside $5 million this month to pay for interim housing for up to 200 people camping along Venice’s Ocean Front Walk. Having faulted city officials for months for their inaction, the sheriff of Los Angeles County, Alex Villanueva, sent deputies to …

Garcetti’s signature homeless program shelters thousands, but most return to the streets
4 years, 1 month ago

Garcetti’s signature homeless program shelters thousands, but most return to the streets

LA Times  

In the spring of 2018, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti put his personal stamp on the city’s response to homelessness by announcing a departure from its primary focus of building permanent housing. She said she can’t take her mother for a walk and sleeps with a baseball bat: “I’m scared.” An umbrella shades Richard Thompson as he camps out with …

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