If approved, a City Council motion would mark a shift in how Los Angeles deals with a rising number of homeless residents.
Last week, Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar introduced a motion to create temporary housing for the homeless in five trailers on a downtown lot owned by the city.
From the Los Angeles Times:
If approved by the City Council, the initiative to provide temporary shelter would mark a new strategy for the city, which has focused primarily on encouraging the construction of permanent housing through $1.2 billion in voter-approved bonds.
Mayor Eric Garcetti has recently given "some hints" about the change in policy.
In an interview last week on KNX-AM, Garcetti challenged City Council members to find places in their districts for more temporary housing, saying the city needs sites for 'not just permanent housing, but for shorter-term shelter, pop-up shelters, pop-up housing, with those dollars that we have.'
In the recent past, the city has made a number of other efforts to address housing as its homeless population rose for a number of years, and then leapt a full 23 percent in 2017.
The most recent initiative to address homelessness is a proposed ordinance that would make it easier to convert hotels and motels into transitional housing.
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