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

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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

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

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

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 …

Los Angeles City Councilmember-elect Hugo Soto-Martinez is heading to City Hall with what he says is a clear mandate to enact bold, progressive policies on housing, homelessness, transportation and other issues. Political science professor Fernando Guerra, who heads the Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University, said two other down-ballot contests — city controller and city …