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 …
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 …
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 …
