Inside Safe - Housing 17,000 of 40,000 Homeless in 2023

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Statistics & details from Mayor Bass (D) 

• 40,000 homeless people in the city (4 million population = 1%)
• 60,000 homeless LA Countywide
• 17,000 will be resettled temporarily or permanently the first -year with the new program. No breakdown was provided of how many will receive permanent housing.
• The program is voluntary
  • No homeless will be force or required to move into hotels.
  • No homeless will faced punishment for not moving
  • This met the express requests of advocates of homeless
• Annual cost for the city (taxpayers) is estimated at $8 billion per year.
• No discussion was made on limitations of an overlap of the County and City Homeless census which would skew the outcome, based on a 50% increase from those adjacent to the city and with no legal residence in the County or City to disqualify them.

Previous efforts by the City Council and Mayor Garcetti to house the homeless in hotels were based upon Governor Newsom's encouragement in 2020 during lockdowns owing to Covid-19 hospitalizations and increased illness.  

It should be noted that City Council Member Katy Yaroslavsky of the 5th District suggests there are 29,000 unsheltered. S14KONICA_C22121312380 (lacity.org)

The actions & discussions by the LA City Council in December regarding homeless include:

Neighborhood Council impact statements

12/13/22 The Sherman Oaks Neighborhood Council (SONC) supports the right to shelter, but we
oppose unless amended, Council File 22-0158 proposed by Council Members Bonin, Raman, and
Harris-Dawson which allows “shelters for the homeless” to be established and operated on
properties located outside of R3, RAS3, R4, RAS4, RS, C2, C4, CS, CM, M1, M2, and M3 zones.
[See Attached Document]

"We request the City Council & City Attorney considering CF-22-0158 take into account: including.....

• Limit the areas a non-profit, charitable, or religious institution can operate shelters for the homeless.  Properties not contiguous to the institution's campus, including remote properties used for rental purposes educational facilities, recreation, daycare, senior care, etc., and properties such as clergy and staff housing, should be excluded.

9/19/22 While the Greater Wilshire Neighborhood Council (GWNC) supports the right to shelter,
it opposes the Motion by City Council Members Bonin, Raman, and Harris-Dawson to allow
"shelters for the homeless" and other forms of interim housing to be established and operated on
properties located outside of R3, RAS3, R4, RAS4, RS, C2, C4, CS, CM, M1, M2, and M3 zones
during a declared shelter crisis for the following reasons: 1)the Motion appears to be premature; the
City has not made use of full zones under the current LAMC that could be used without this
amendment; and 2) uses in R1 or R2 zones seem to require community input and case-by-case
attention to property and uses that are different from commercial and industrial zones. We look
forward to reading the report and weighing in with greater specificity at that time.

9/11/22  The Board of the Studio City Neighborhood Council (SCNC) opposes Council File
22-0158 (Bonin / Raman / Harris-Dawson) which would allow shelters and other forms of interim housing to be established and operated on properties located outside of R3, RAS3, R4, RAS4, R5, C2, C4, C5, CM, M1, M2, and M3 zones during a declared shelter crisis.

8/24/22 The East Hollywood Neighborhood Council would like to voice its support of Council File
CF-22-0158. We support the city council’s motion instructing the Los Angeles Department of City Planning (DCP) and other relevant departments to report back in 45 days with options to amend Section 12.03, 12.80, and 12.81 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code (LAMC) in order to more quickly establish temporary homeless emergency shelters during a declared shelter crisis in additional zones, as well as streamline the approval and extension process for emergency/temporary shelters.
The East Hollywood Neighborhood Council acknowledges the scale of the situation facing our unhoused neighbors and we support the city taking transformative efforts to provide more housing solutions. To that end, it is important that the city expand the number of sites that are eligible to provide this much-needed service. We support a report that will look into expanding where shelters, interim housing can operate as of right and allowing for broader more inclusive zoning that would allow them to operate during a crisis. Many of the sites that would be allowed to operate would include churches and charitable organizations.
We also urge the city to simultaneously pursue additional long-term solutions to homelessness in order for the additional shelter opportunities provided through this Item to lead to any meaningful reduction in homelessness, such as dedicating additional discretionary funds to permanent supportive housing, streamlining the approval process for affordable housing projects, and providing vacant city-owned land for affordable housing development

8/11/22  The Westwood Neighborhood Council would like the City Council to take note of the 
following motion that was passed in regard this motion. “The Westwood Neighborhood Council
requests the City Council and City Attorney, when drafting and considering the council file item CF
22-0158, take into account the below requests by the Westside Regional Alliance of Councils:–Consideration of automatically including LAMC 41.18 protections on any location providing a homeless shelter and authorized pursuant to a declared shelter emergency.–Consideration of mandatory CEQA compliance.–Consideration of consequences of “Cutting red tape” by removing the public’s right to a transparent approval process including right to notification and the opportunity for public comment, including early notification to NCs and recognized CCs.–Consider the differences and effects of allowing shelters in R1 zones as proposed versus the existing ordinances allowing them in R2

Additional neighborhood Council comments are here:  22-0158 (CFMS) (lacity.org)

It should be noted that previous discussions by the LA City Council regarding homeless, in June 2020, have expired. While others are still in committee

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