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Two Local Homeless Shelters Near Completion Brentwood and Venice bridge housing shelters see installation of membrane structures

By Sam Catanzaro Membrane structures have been installed at two bridge housing centers, which will house over 200 individuals combined including homeless veterans, in Brentwood and Venice.

In Brentwood, a membrane structure that will house up to 100 homeless veterans at the West Los Angeles VA Campus was recently installed as the shelter nears completion following a series of delays.

Once complete, the site will include two 40’ x 120’ tension membrane structures and modular

trailers, which will be located within the VA campus near existing buildings and services.

The site will offer roughly 100 beds for currently homeless veterans, as well as storage for residents, personal hygiene and laundry facilities, supportive and community engagement services, and 24-hour security.

“As the sites prepare to open, outreach workers will begin building trust with people experiencing homelessness, so people currently living in encampments in Venice, as well as veterans experiencing homelessness on the Westside, will be ready to move in when the facilities both open,” said Councilmember Mike Bonin, referring to a bridge housing center set to open in Venice as well.

This bridge housing facility will be temporary — and not to be visible from the exterior of the campus — as the VA constructs out its Draft

SHELTER, see page 10

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The membrane structure that will house adults at the Venice bridge housing center set to open in the new year.

UCLA Study’s on Homelessness Prevention Nearly half of instances of homelessness predicted in study B y S am C atanzaro Researchers at UCLA recently were able to accurately predict nearly half of instances in which subjects in a study became

homeless using predictive analytics and now county lawmakers may use Measure H funds to launch a data-driven homelessness prevention unit.

With data from seven Los Angeles County agencies on services provided to residents between 2012 and 2016 — names and personally identifiable information were omitted — researchers from the California Policy Lab at UCLA and the Poverty Lab at the University of Chicago Harris School of

Public Policy developed a model to predict which 3,000 residents were most likely to become homeless in 2017. When compared against county records, they found that 46 percent of the individuals predicted by the model to be at risk for first-time homelessness or a repeat period of homelessness did experience homelessness at some point in 2017.

“Bringing together data from multiple county agencies gave us a more nuanced

understanding about what’s happening to people right before they slip into homeless and how services can be better targeted to prevent that from happening,” said Till von Wachter, a UCLA economics professor and co-author of the report.

According to researchers, effectively serving the 1 percent of County residents who are at greatest risk of a new homeless

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Is Our City Riding a Trojan Horse – Part 2 SMa.r.t.

Santa Monica Architects for a Responsible Tomorrow

As discussed in Part 1 of our article two weeks ago (https://smmirror.com/2019/12/is-our-citycouncil-riding-a-trojan-horse/), Santa Monica will be required by state law to add 9,000 units, including 6,900 affordable within 8 years – increasing our current population 20%! But our city’s track record to date is not stellar - doubling the goal of market-rate housing while requiring 30% affordable units, but only realizing 10%.

The City’s kneejerk reaction is “up-zoning,” adding 2 stories of height while removing barriers to development in order to accommodate the 9,000 units - both foolhardy and unnecessary.

In a recent Council meeting, expressions ranged from “interested in removing any restrictions in the Bergamot area” to “it’s these kinds of anti-growth and exclusionary policies that have gotten us into the mess we’re in!”

Is it really the Council’s intention to drastically up-zone, allowing developers to build large enough in order to include the low-income units required, while along the way enriching themselves for the election process. But can we produce 9,000 units in the next 8 years without adding 2 stories of height throughout the city, without increasing 4 & 6 story limits to 6 & 8 stories along the boulevards and increasing 6-8 stories to 8-10 stories in our downtown? C’mon Coun-

cil there is substantial capacity to add both housing and commercial in far more creative ways.

And building low-rise instead of building higher is less costly while maintaining our beachfront character. Council, start thinking outside the box!

Vacancies & Adaptive Re-Use: Could our 8% vacancy account for a sizeable portion of this requirement? Or consider adaptive re-use of existing buildings! As my colleague Dan Jansenson suggested - being forced by state law could possibly allow us to use eminent domain to condemn entire buildings for adaptive re-use or buildings being remodeled could be required to convert a portion for housing. When you consider the energy used in material extraction and construction, over 30% of global fuel consumption, maybe we should stop demolishing so much of our built environment and start seeing existing buildings as an important resource in the natural environment.

Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU’s) There are 9,800 single family homes in Santa Monica. It is not unrealistic to assume 10% of these homes could provide 980 of the 9,000 units required, especially when considering the major revisions to state law governing ADU’s which went into affect this year. These changes include increased area, decreased setbacks, limited permit processing time, and up to 3 dwellings on a single property. With ADU’s being less costly to build, the land being free and no elevators or subterranean parking, 200 ADU’s per year or 1,600 over the 8 years is quite realistic.

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City Owned Property Our city government is by far the largest land owner with 243 acres of available land – the Big Blue Bus yard, the Bergamot city yards, and SMO. Using 20% of these areas could provide all of the 6,900 affordable units in a terraced 3 story garden apartment environment.

However, when you consider the city has one of the lowest green space ratios of any city, it may be more beneficial to put all 6,900 affordable units on 25-30% of SMO. This would still leave 70-75% of the airport area available for emergency helicopter aviation, city yards, a park, electric buses, and/or SMC expansion. And this would then enable use of the two 8 acre parcels (BBB and city yards) to become parks, centrally located within our city, while causing less disruption of infrastructure throughout the city.

Eight Boulevards We also have a unique opportunity to not only increase housing but also enhance the character of our boulevards. One story commercial buildings with their display windows and entry doors hugging the sidewalks along with their abutting surface asphalt parking lots could transition into meandering sidewalks, courtyards, landscape, trellises, and terraced architecture. These would become neighborhood activity centers with ground floor commercial and 2 residential floors opening onto terraced courtyards – similar to Santa Monica’s history of courtyard housing instead of 6-8 story block buildings. These redeveloped areas could provide up to 6,000 housing units calculated at a ratio of 15% each of studios and 3 bedroom units and 35% of 1’s and 2’s.

Illustrated are 3 of many possible designs on 1/2, 3/4, and full blocks with floor area ratios of 1.5 – 2.25. Existing property owners could either lead or participate in the redevelopment – and be reimbursed for 2 years of lost income while under construction and then realize a threefold increase in profit. At 1.5 – 2.25 FAR and taking into account the 2 years of lost income, the cost of construction, permit and legal fees, etc., the redeveloped project shows an r.o.i. in excess of 11%! To incentivize this transition, the city could reduce processing time, permit costs, or property taxes for a period of time.

Downtown In the downtown area, there is also a substan-

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tial number of one-story commercial buildings and surface parking that could also add up to 3,000 units in terraced 4-story, 2.0 FAR designs – without the need to increase heights to 8 and 10 stories.

And while we’re busy adding housing, what about addressing a substantial need for green space! Picture turning existing downtown sideyards and alleys into a network of shop-lined pedestrian arcades leading to a grand piazza at 4th and Arizona – one that both residents and visitors can enjoy for decades.

Summary Our City Council has no overall strategy. They pride themselves solely on rent control. How about ALSO taking pride in your environment which is fast being compromised. Does this increased density by adding 2 stories of height serve our community? Or will this create economic, physical and mobility havoc? There are multiple answers to this 9,000 unit requirement without simply adding 2 stories.

But unfortunately, it appears our city government is not competent enough to oversee creating 9,000 units, unless possibly at a single site at the airport. Alternatively we can choose to fight state law, but that’s probably a lost cause along with substantial daily economic penalties.

And how is this added density going to affect infrastructure – water, power, schools, fire, police? And what is the ancillary cost for a decade of torn up streets and inadequate electrical supply, etc? Increasing population 20% will also require increasing infrastructure by 20%. We will need water, traffic and emergency plans along with 9,000 additional units. And where is the school to house the children of these 9,000 units?

Where is the water coming from? I’d be surprised if our current water plan includes the addition of 9,000 units. We need a comprehensive study – we need an overall master plan before we start increasing our population 20%!!

And, as stated previously, it is criminal to continue losing our heritage of courtyard housing with block-like building façades, especially when there is no compelling reason to do so other than simple greed in concert with dependence on re-elections funds. We need to seriously consider “form based codes” to prevent the increasing “block-like” character permeating our city.

Santa Monica takes pride in being a progressive community – but maybe this is only accomplished in public relations? Santa Monica, you can do a lot better if you just literally look “outside the box.” I’m certain there are other solutions while maintaining, and even enhancing, Santa Monica’s beachfront scale and environment. This can be a win-win-win for the City, the developers, and the residents!!!

Ron Goldman FAIA for SMa.r.t. (Santa Monica Architects for a Responsible Tomorrow) Thane Roberts, Architect, Robert H. Taylor AIA, Ron Goldman FAIA, Dan Jansenson, Architect, Building and Fire-Life Safety Commission, Samuel Tolkin Architect, Mario Fonda-Bonardi, AIA, Planning Commissioner, Phil Brock, Santa Monica Arts Commission.

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$2.6 Million in PR Contracts

“Behavior Change” firm among companies selected.

By Sam Catanzaro

At their regular meeting Tuesday, March 26 Santa Monica City Council voted to award $2,610,000 on communications and outreach services to third-party vendors.

Agenda item 3.D, which passed by a 5-1 vote, awarded contracts to 15 companies to provide all City of Santa Monica Departments as-needed communications and outreach services.

Councilmember Sue Himelrich was the only Councilmember to vote against the propsoal.

According to city staff, each two-year contract will not exceed $174,000 per company, meaning the City could spend up to $2,610,000 over the next two years.

“Increasing public outreach helps ensure the community knows about and can participate in City programming, services, and policy decision-making. In an effort to streamline City outreach efforts and make resources available more broadly to all City programs, staff recommends establishing 15 city-wide contracts with companies consisting of creative agencies or individuals,” Santa Monica City Staff wrote in a report. “These agreements can be leveraged by all city departments to help make delivering information more timely, integrated and effi-

cient, ensuring more of the public know about city information, more consistently and easily.”

According to the staff report, the City previously used third-party services for communications and outreach, but each department or agency acquired these services independently.

This piecemeal approach, the report says, results in significant time devoted to procuring and orienting various companies to the City.

“Creating a pool of on-call resources available to all departments will make the delivery of information more efficient by making pre-qualified companies familiar with existing City campaigns and branding available citywide,” City Staff wrote.

Among the companies listed in the staff report are Marketing for a Change, “a full-service creative firm anchored in social psychology and behavioral economics” and “behavior change,” according to their website; Conceptive, Inc, “a branded entertainment firm that focuses on producing branded web series and non-traditional advertising campaigns that involve and embrace,” and Katz & Associates, a PR firm that works to “inform, educate, facilitate and resolve issues to move projects forward.”

City Staff does not anticipate that the $174,000 threshold would be reached by all the companies but does not specify how much they estimate will be spent over a two-year period.

According to the City, this will not result in additional dollars sent.

“The communications and outreach con-

The section of the City Staff report that lists some of the PR companies.

tracts consent item is about creating efficiencies around how departments secure communications services. Instead of each department going out to bid for each project or initiative, they can now leverage approved vendors that have gone through the competitive process.

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The budget for these services is existing and lives within the budget for each project or initiative. This process change will not result in additional dollars spent and will streamline how services are secured,” the City said in a statement.

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By Sam Catanzaro An armed bank robber who eluded a massive manhunt in Santa Monica stole between $3,000 to $5,000, says law enforcement officials.

On Tuesday, September 10, the Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD) received a call regarding an armed robbery at Wells Fargo on 10th Street and Montana Avenue at 9:51 a.m.

"The suspect who was heavily dressed in dark clothing consisting of a hoodie, gloves and a white 'Day of the Dead' type of mask entered into the bank carrying a long-barreled weapon and demanded money. The suspect received between $3,000 to $5,000 and left the location. The suspect was last seen jumping a wall to the rear of the bank and in the 800 block of 9th Street," the SMPD said in a press release Wednesday.

SMPD officers were on the scene in minutes and established a perimeter-based on information provided by witnesses and residents in the area and attempted to locate the suspect, described as 6 foot 4, 200 lbs, armed with a double-barreled shotgun and wearing a dark trench-coat. Aided by the Culver City Police Department, Beverly Hills Police Department and Los Angeles Police Department S.W.A.T. officers, among other law enforcement personnel, a massive manhunt ensued within a perminter from 11th Street to Lincoln Boulevard and Montana Avenue to Washington Avenue.

Despite the scale of the search, which included SMPD's tactical weapons unit and K-9 scouts, by 3 p.m. law enforcement called off the search saying they were unable to locate the suspect and a shelter order for residents and school lockdowns at Roosevelt Elementary, St. Monica's High School and First United Methodist were lifted.

"The suspect was not located. We understand this has been very stressful on the community and appreciate your patience and understanding.

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A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE NAME FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE To all interested persons: Brenda Gutierrez FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT Ramirez OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS Petitioner: filed a petition with this court for a STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME decree changing names as follows: IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER a. Brenda Gutierrez Ramirez to Brenda Ramirez UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW The court orders that all persons interested (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS in this matter appear before this court at the AND PROFESSIONS CODE). SANTA MONICA hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, MIRROR to publish 12/20/2019, 12/27/2019, why the petition for change of name should 1/03/2020, and 1/10/2020. not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA written objection that includes the reasons for COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES the objection at least two court days before ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF the matter is scheduled to be heard and must NAME appear at the hearing to show cause why the Case No. 19SMCP00575 petition should not be granted. If no written Superior Court of California, county of Los objection is timely filed, the court may grant the Angeles petition without a hearing.

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A copy of this ORDER to SHOW CAUSE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF shall be published at least once a week for NAME four successive weeks prior to the date set To all interested persons: Teresa Miriam Green for hearing on the petition in the following Petitioner: filed a petition with this court for a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this decree changing names as follows: county: a. Teresa Miriam Green to Miriam Green Potok SANTA MONICA MIRROR | Dated: DEC. 13, The court orders that all persons interested 2019 in this matter appear before this court at the Judge Lawrence H. Cho hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, Published: 12/27/2019, 1/03/2020, 1/10/2020, why the petition for change of name should and 1/17/2020

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ORIGINALLY PRINTED: July 26, 2019

‘Dumped like a Dog’ Disabled senior left in front of homeless shelter by nursing home

By Sam Catanzaro A disabled senior says a Santa Monica nursing home misled and left him in a wheelchair in front of a local homeless shelter without a place to sleep.

Alan Corona is a 72-year-old disabled senior who has a cervical disc disorder with myelopathy that leaves him dependent on a wheelchair and walker to get around. For eight months, Corona was living at Pacific Post-Acute, a nursing home, on 17th Street in Santa Monica in June, however a series of events led to his discharge.

Having made some progress with his rehabilitation, Corona says Pacific Post-Acute informed him that he would be moved to an assisted living facility in Hawthorne. In addition, Pacific Post-Acute told Corona that they would begin collecting his Social Security check plus $113 a month to stay in the facility. According to Corona, for eight months, Medicare and Medi-Cal had been paying his rent at Pacific Post-Acute.

When Corona refused to pay for these services, Pacific Post-Acute gave him a 30 days notice of

eviction.

Corona then began looking for a new place to live, including Rosecrans Villa, an assisted living facility in Hawthorne, which is where Corona thought he was going to move to. Given a discharge notice from Pacific Post-Acute saying that they would transport him to Rosecrans Villa on June 7, Corona packed his belongings and medications to prepare for the move.

In the transport vehicle, Corona says he was informed that he was not going to Rosecrans Villa but instead to the People’s Concern (OPCC) homeless shelter on Cloverfield Boulevard in Santa Monica. According to Corona, he was told that the move would be only temporary until a bed opened up at Rosecrans Villa. Arriving at OPCC, however, Corona realized that this was not the case.

“I was driven in front of a shelter and dumped with my bags and medicine,” Corona said. “I was taken for a ride and dumped like a dog.”

Wheelchair-bound and alone, Parsons found out that there was not a bed for him at OPCC and since then has been living between hospitals, essentially homeless.

OPCC said in an email to the Santa Monica Mirror that Corona has never been entered into the facility's system.

When reached for comment, Pacific PostAcute said they could not speak on the matter

due to federal laws protecting patient information.

“We are unable to provide the comments you seek,” Pacific Post-Acute wrote in an email to the Santa Monica Mirror. “A response requires sharing information that is HIPAA [Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996] protected.”

An employee of Pacific Post-Acute who wishes to remain anonymous confirmed, however, that Corona was not informed he was being taken to OPCC until he was in the transport vehicle.

“When he was in his access car he was told that he was not going to be transferred to the original place he thought he was going to go to so they took him to the other place,” said the employee in a phone interview with the Santa Monica Mirror.

Rosecrans Villa, when reached for comment, confirmed that on June 3, 2019, they received a referral for Cornona and spoke to him on the phone to discuss arraigning a face-to-face evaluation, informing him of their facility requirements, admission policies and procedures.

“During the phone interview our Administrator had with Mr. Corona, she informed him that he would have to pay our rental agreement amount of $1078.38/month if he was to be admitted. Mr. Corona informed her that he refused to pay that much rent due to he wanted to keep

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his social security checks and not pay rent with his SSI. He was not paying rent at the nursing home, due to they charge his insurance and he did not agree to pay rent at our facility if we were to admit him,” Rosecrans Villa wrote in an email to the Mirror. “The conversation with Mr. Corona was brief and then ended with him knowing he was not going to be admitted to our facility due to his refusal to pay rent.”

In their email, Rosecrans Villa made clear that they were not involved in Corona’s discharge and that currently there is no room for him at the facility.

“Rosecrans Villa was not involved in any other discharge planning for Mr. Corona after we informed him and the facility social worker that we would not be accepting him,” Rosecrans Villa wrote. “We are full at this time and do not have any planned vacancies coming up. It is our policy to only accept clients with current physician statements, medications, and funds.”

Corona disputes this fact, saying that Rosecrans Villa never told him that he would not be admitted and that until he was in the transport vehicle, he was under the assumption that he would be living in the assisted living center.

When reached for comment, the City of Santa Monica said they are aware of the incident and that the City Attorney’s Office has received Corona’s complaint and is now investigating it.

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ORIGINALLY PRINTED: May 3, 2019

City Asks for Expedited CVRA Decision PhoCity files motion to facilitate November 2020 Council election.

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On April 29, the City of Santa Monica filed a motion requesting that the California Court of Appeal grant calendar preference to the City’s appeal from the trial court’s order in Pico Neighborhood Association, et al. v. City of Santa Monica. The City requested that the Court set an expedited briefing and argument schedule that would result in a decision by July 10, 2020.

The City is seeking this expedited briefing schedule to allow the November 2020 Council election to remain the next regular election date.

“This schedule would make it more likely that the City will be able to hold its next Council election on the next regularly scheduled election date, in November 2020. Following the regular election schedule would increase voter engagement and turnout, provide voters with their expected opportunity to regularly select their Council members, and avoid the expenditure of public funds on a special election on a different date,” the City wrote in their motion to the California Court of Appeal.

According to Denise Anderson-Warren, City Clerk, California law requires between 113 to 127

days’ notice before holding an election.

The four councilmembers elected in 2016, Terry O’Day, Ted Winterer, Mayor Gleam Davis and Ana Maria Jara (who is serving out the remainder of Tony Vazquez’s term), will be up for reelection in November 2020, regardless of the result of the City’s appeal.

The case, Pico Neighborhood Association, et al. v. City of Santa Monica, filed by plaintiffs Pico Neighborhood Association, Maria Loya and Advocates for Malibu Public Schools alleges that Santa Monica’s at-large election system dilutes Latino voting power in violation of the CVRA and discriminates against Latino voters in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the California Constitution.

In a ruling released February 15, Palazuelos ordered that all future elections for seats on the Santa Monica City Council be based on a seven-district map drawn by an expert for the plaintiffs and that the City hold a special election this summer for all seven seats on the Santa Monica City Council using this new district map. Judge Palazuelos’ ruling prohibited anybody not elected in a district election from serving on City Council beyond August 15, 2019, calling for a special election to be held over the summer.

On March 27, the Court of Appeal issued a stay a special election when they said that current members of Santa Monica City Council can legally serve during the duration of the city’s appeal.

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ORIGINALLY PRINTED: September 27, 2019

SM Student Suffers Severe Lung Injury in School Pool Government claim filed against SMMUSD

By Sam Catanzaro A high school student suffered severe and debilitating lung injuries after swimming in the Santa Monica High Schoo (Samohi) pool according to a government claim filed this month against the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD).

Francis Schumann is a senior at Santa Monica High School, a member of the water polo team and a strong swimmer, according to his attorney. During a team swimming and water polo meet August 22, he suddenly was unable to breathe, and after gasping for air several times, he immediately became ill. Upon quickly exiting the pool, he began to vomit repeatedly as other students experienced similar symptoms. He was rushed to the Santa Monica UCLA emergency room by ambulance and continues to suffer from serious lung injuries.

“Francis is a strong young man in peak physical form” said attorney Khail A. Parris

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of The Parris Law Firm (Parris Law). “The school’s lack of oversight led him and several other members to become seriously ill as a result of the chlorine gas leak,” Parris added.

Following the incident, the school initially claimed that the students were exposed to natural gas of the same form as those located near the SoCal Gas Blowout in Porter Ranch, California. However, upon further inspection the school determined that the students were exposed to highly toxic levels of chlorine gas emanating from a degraded pool system.

Francis Schuman is the first of the students to bring a claim against the school. According to SMMUSD, 11 students in total required medical attention for respiratory problems.

When reached for comment, the SMMUSD said that they are working with families to address medical claims related to the incident.

"The SMMUSD superintendent and Samohi principal met with families following the Samohi pool incident last month. We have been in communication with the families and we are working with them regarding medical claims stemming from this incident. We regret that this occurred, and have remedied the cause of the chlorine leak to prevent this from happening again. The health and safety of our students and staff are our top priorities. As for this claim, we do not comment on pending litigation," said Gail Pinsker Community & Public Relations Officer for SMMUSD. Carey Upton, Chief Operations Officer for SMMUSD says that pool experts have investigated and evaluated the Santa Monica High School pool systems.

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spell would prevent nearly 6,900 homeless spells in one year saying the highest risk individuals are interacting with multiple agencies.

Based on this research, a county led-plan was submitted to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on December 16 that recommends that the county use predictive models to intervene with adults who are identified as having a high risk for homelessness before becoming reaching a crisis point.

The plan, which is expected to receive $3 million in funding during 2020 from Measure H, also proposes a multidisciplinary homelessness prevention unit with representatives of the county’s departments of mental health, health services and social services and the sheriff and probation offices. The unit would take referrals from the risks lists generated by the predictive models, identify which services would be most beneficial and then reach out to individuals to connect them to those services.

In September, a scathing report was released showing the agency tasked with tackling homelessness in Los Angeles County failed to meet many of its goals despite the fact that the number of outreach workers doubled between 2017-2019.

Therefore officials are hoping a more data-driven approach will lead to more effective results “Last year, despite providing housing to tens of thousands of people, we saw more and more individuals and families becoming homeless,” said Phil Ansell, the director of the Los Angeles County Homeless Initiative. “The county is focused on using strategic approaches to preventing homelessness, and these groundbreaking models will make it possible to reach those who need us the most before they reach the crisis point and fall into homelessness.”

Master Plan, which will provide 1200 units of permanent supportive housing on the campus.

The facility was expected to open in early 2019, but crews experienced a delay on the site when they uncovered old pipes that needed special attention as the site was prepared for the temporary structures.

In addition, mud from a rainy winter and asbestos that was discovered hindered the project.

Also nearing completion on the Westside is a 154-bed bridge housing shelter in Venice, a project that has been the center of a debate between supporters and opponents since its inception.

Earlier this month, the installation of trailers and a membrane structure began at the bridge housing shelter in Venice that will provide 154 beds for homeless individuals at the old MTA lot on Main Street.

Trailers for youth housing have been installed and the membrane structure that will provide housing for adults arrived at the property as well.

PATH will be the lead operator of the site and will work with the Venice-based SPY, which will also provide services at the temporary facility, which will provide 100 beds for adults and 54 beds for youth.

On December 13, a Venice Stakeholder’s Association (VSA) petition to halt the construction of the shelter was denied by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff.

VSA argued that AB 1197 – a new Los Angeles-specific state law providing California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) exemptions for emergency shelters and permanent supportive housing – should not apply retroactively on the bridge housing shelter since lawmakers approved the project before AB 1197 went into effect.

“AB 1197 on its face does not apply retroactively and California courts do not apply new laws retroactively absent clear direction from the Legislature to do so,” wrote Jeffrey Lewis, counsel for VSA in a letter to Los Angeles City Council last month. “The City would be better served by conceding this point, following the law and going through the CEQA process to serve the residents surrounding the Project location. The faster that the City initiates the CEQA process, the sooner it can begin serving.”

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