Dozens of new apartments for homeless people could rise in Chatsworth after the Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to fund a rare proposal to build such housing in the northwestern stretches of the San Fernando Valley. The Topanga Apartments would be the first project in Council District 12 funded by Propositon HHH, a $1.2-billion bond measure approved by voters for homeless housing. Until now, it was the only district in L.A. that had yet to approve any HHH housing. “Do our kids need to see and be near this?”But other residents and homeless advocates urged the council to fund the Chatsworth project, saying that such housing was needed all over Los Angeles. Harris-Dawson already had more than 500 such units approved for his South L.A. district before Tuesday’s vote.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 15, 2019 20:15 UTC