Despite the pledge that City Council members made one year ago to support new housing with supportive services in each of their districts, zero units have been approved in this northwestern stretch of the San Fernando Valley. AlpertReyes reports:
, said that after one project fell through, there were no other proposals for homeless housing in the area.When asked if the council office had taken any proactive steps to encourage such development, Sweeney said staff had done an assessment of surplus city properties in the district, but the few that existed were not zoned for the right kind of development. He declined a request to interview Smith, who took office in January.
“I don’t think the numbers are a fair representation of the work I’m doing,” Blumenfield said, arguing that the pledge did not obligate him personally to create units. As clouds gathered overhead one Friday afternoon, Dan Hacker — known to Wetter and the others at the camp as Butch — rolled up on his bicycle.
Kimberly Wetter, 56, is one of roughly a dozen people who bed down nightly in a makeshift camp of tarps and tents next to Metrolink tracks Under Prop. HHH, Los Angeles has started offering financial incentives to developers that build homeless housing on private property in neighborhoods with high land costs. Seven such projects have been proposedHousing advocates also point out that despite the ongoing imbalance of where homeless housing is built,
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