The city should shift its focus, he said, from supportive housing construction to giving homeless and at-risk Angelenos money to help pay their rent on the private market. She plans to discuss the report next month in the housing and homelessness committee she chairs. That means episodes of homelessness would be rare and brief and anyone who needed a shelter bed could access one. His research indicates that supportive housing projects funded with construction union labor and other mandates cost about $100,000 more per unit than what the housing department is estimating. City officials are recommending a continuation of an apartment construction ban in areas zoned for single-family homes, nearly three-quarters of L.A.’s residential land.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 16, 2024 14:32 UTC