City of LA spent nearly $1 billion during the pandemic, city controller reports
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LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles city departments have spent nearly $1 billion on coronavirus-related programs, LA Controller Ron Galperin announced Thursday.
Since March 2020, City departments reported nearly $1 billion in expenditures mostly for programs and supplies, homeless housing, staffing and overtime, rental assistance, and testing and vaccines.
Galperin s office released an online COVID-19 spending tracker for the public to track the $984.8 million that the city has thus far spent on pandemic-related expenses, including:
$843 million for supplies and programs;
$118 million for Project Homekey housing;
$176 million for staffing and overtime pay;
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Skid Row Housing Trust opens 54 permanent supportive housing units
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Six Four Nine Lofts via Skid Row Housing Trust
LOS ANGELES - Mayor Eric Garcetti and other Los Angeles-area elected officials joined the Skid Row Housing Trust to announce the grand opening of a permanent supportive housing building and medical clinic in the Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles.
The project, called 649 Lofts, located at 649 Wall St., has 54 studio units between 385 and 400 square feet. It began admitting residents in March and is the second of three Skid Row Housing Trust projects expected to open in 2021.
The building includes a three-story community health clinic, called the Joshua House Health Center, which is operated by the L.A. Christian Health Centers. The clinic is scheduled to open later this year and will provide medical, dental, optometry, mental health and social services to an anticipated 7,000 people in the Skid Row community each year.
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EASTSIDER-I think the headline says it all. Recently, there are signs the LA City Council may be headed in the right direction, but it’s on a small scale and the question is whether the developers who own the Council can allow a good thing to thrive.
The Issue
“As part of his far-reaching plan to combat homelessness in Los Angeles, CD 14 Councilmember Kevin de León recently filed a motion that could bring small, prefabricated housing units to two locations in Northeast LA. One location, in Eagle Rock, is the city-owned parking lot at 7541 N. Figueroa Street next to the on/off ramps of the 134 Freeway.”