A 60-day grace period and some additional contingencies have been added to a court order for the city and county of Los Angeles to provide shelter or housing to the thousands of people experiencing homelessness on Skid Row in Downtown Los Angeles.
"A federal judge overseeing a lawsuit over homelessness in Los Angeles says in a new court order that he will give the city 60 days to detail how its planned $1 billion in funding for homelessness will be spent," reports Dakota Smith.
The news comes less than a week after the judge ordered the city and county of Los Angeles to offer shelter and housing to the more than 4,600 people experiencing homelessness on the streets of Skid Row in Downtown Los Angeles.
"Judge David O. Carter, in a preliminary injunction last week, ordered the city to put $1 billion in an escrow account , with the money to be used for homelessness," writes Smith to explain some of the details of the order. More details on the substance of the 60-day delay are found in the source article below.
As reported by Benjamin Oreskes and Emily Alpert Reyes on April 23, the city and county of Los Angeles asked for the order to stayed.
On April 25, Oreskes reported on the growing resistance to the judge's order: "Critics, including the Los Angeles Community Action Network, have argued that the tight timelines in the order would propel spending on temporary shelter rather than long-standing housing, failing to address the underlying problem."
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