Los Angeles city and county leaders celebrated a new pilot interim housing program Thursday for the homeless, in partnership with Metro as the unhoused frequent the system's services.The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority's Welcome Navigation Center in South L.A. is an around the clock center addressing physical and mental health, with a focus on permanent housing placement.Dr.
Prior to the recent spike in violence on the line, the number one issue that we were dealing with was homelessness in public transit, both in the trains, in the stations and on the busses,' Bass said. 'It's a way to provide services for people who are essentially using the line and the stations as housing, and this is a perfect example, it's an example of the partnership that we talked about in Metro Board meetings.