The stylish co-living apartment building in Koreatown was all but complete when the bottom fell out. Operating under the nonprofit umbrella of the California Community Foundation, LA4LA hopes to take advantage of a distressed housing market to create affordable housing quickly without taxpayer dollars. Sarah Dusseault is lead strategist for LA4LA, a public-private project that hopes to take advantage of …
The reunion was a replay of so many painful encounters that she could no longer keep them straight in her thoughts. Then he ended up at Community Hospital of San Bernardino, where a doctor who knew Steve proposed filing a petition to place John under a conservatorship, a procedure under state law that would give a public guardian almost total …
Omar Spry of the Los Angeles Housing Community Investment Department pushes a cart of bags into a West L.A. hotel that has been turned into housing for homeless people during the coronavirus pandemic. “We’re in a race to save lives,” said Sarah Dusseault, chairwoman of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s oversight commission. “Our thought is that every person who …
Given its name, it’s not surprising that many view the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority as a one-stop shop for solving the county’s homelessness crisis. “Is this the best system?” asked Miguel Santana, the former Los Angeles City administrative officer who crafted the city’s homeless plan. That board was created in 2017 by the 56-member Los Angeles Regional Homeless Advisory …
I could give you a hundred reasons homelessness has become L.A. County’s most vexing challenge, from the gargantuan income gap to housing costs to the scourge of drugs and mental illness, but the biggest impediment to solving it may be this: Nobody is in charge. Sarah Dusseault, chair of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority commission, told me Tuesday that …
