Home Run
SHARE Sean Serino was among the first residents to move into Redondo’s first ever temporary homeless shelter on December 28, 2020. Photo by JP Cordero
Sean Serino was among the first residents to move into Redondo’s first ever temporary homeless shelter on December 28, 2020. Photo by JP Cordero
Residents began moving into the Beach Cities’ first ever temporary shelter for unhoused people in the early morning hours of December 28, just over a month after it was approved and barely in time to qualify for the coronavirus-related relief funding necessary to pay for it.
The shelter located off Kingsdale Avenue is being run by the City of Redondo Beach in collaboration with Harbor Interfaith, a nonprofit in San Pedro dedicated to helping the homeless get off the streets and into permanent housing.
Renondo Beach has erected 15 pallet cabins into a homeless shelter
The 8ft by 8ft aluminium cabins will be used for temporary housing
They are set up with bunk beds for two people, shelves, heat, air conditioning, and electrical panels
Pallet, a Seattle-based company, originally designed the units to help with disaster relief in the wake of Hurricane Katrina
The shelter is being run through $300,000 in community development block grants and $410,000 from county grant funds
The CARES Act fund is also supplying $420,000 to cover capital costs
The shelter is being tested in its current site for six months
Other locations had been suggested but received pushback from locals