Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ordered city officials on Friday to prepare a list of the city’s surplus and unused properties over the next three weeks, the first major step in identifying which ones will be used for building homeless housing.
The mayor, who has promised to bring 17,000 people indoors in her first year, issued her order one week after the City Council voted to allow a new 168-room hotel to go up on a longtime redevelopment site near USC — one whose development was negotiated by the city. “[This is] the very rare occasion that I will stand up in defense of a private developer, a private commercial developer, over affordable housing,” he said at the time.
Galperin’s list also included the Parker Center site, which once served as the LAPD’s headquarters, as well as the property known asnear Crenshaw Boulevard in South L.A., which has long been eyed for private commercial development. Bass has spent several weeks visiting publicly owned homeless housing developments, frequently with federal officials in tow. On Wednesday, she and Jeff Olivet, executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, visiteda homeless housing complex built on county-owned land once reserved for a jail facility.
Monterey Park and Alhambra have lots of vacant buildings.
LA residents deserve everything the get with who they voted for.
First and foremost, the police need to be able to remove hobos, drug addicts and crazy people from the streets. Until this is done, LA will keep looking like 3rd world craphole.
VacuousNess It can be done with the right leaders and the will to improve people’s existence.
Beverly Hills has some empty lots
Yah -so Garcetti ordered the same thing done in 2020. This complete zero with her derivative policies won’t get any further than Garcetti.
Has she learned anything from San Francisco?
Hasn’t this already been done like a half dozen times by other electeds?
Now we're talking!! Genius!