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Building Confidence, Building Community.
In addition to ADUs, there are number of projects in the works or planned. They had 23 affordable housing permits
issued. These consist of affordable housing or supportive housing. They have not issued any temporary emergency
shelters but are in the process of approving our first homeless shelter called Safe Landing (http://kfalosangeles.com/
projectpost/safe-landing/) consisting of five prefabricated metal buildings providing 178 beds and other supportive
facilities. It is built on a landfill. There are also a couple of future projects. One is the West Los Angeles VA Campus.
They will be repurposing existing structures and building new ones to create 1,691 new apartments for veterans by
2021 (https://la.curbed.com/2015/10/22/9908450/west-la-va-master-plan). Finally, LA Unified School District and
LA County are exploring repurposing thousands of bungalows previously used as classrooms. Offering an affordable
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LA TIMEs article Homelessness jumps 12% in L.A. County and 16% in the city; officials ‘stunned’ June 4, 2019 by
Benjiman Oreskes, Doug Smith
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In 2019, homelessness truly felt like a crisis in every corner of L.A. by LA Times Dec 20, 2019 by Erika D. Smith,
assistant metor editor
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LA County and LAUSD to Explore Launching an Accessory Dwelling Units Partnership Program
Contact: Rosa Maria Santana, Deputy Communications Director, rsantana@bos.lacounty.gov, or 213-359-0795,
December 10th, 2019|Community, Immigration, In the news, Press Release, women children and families. https://
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Zoning Codes
Executive Orders
Other Ordinances
Trends in Building, Fire & Zoning Codes related to eliminating/minimizing homelessness
Highlights of some of the more creative and impactful solutions
Feedback – Are these initiatives working? What changes are needed?
D. New York City, NY:
“Today, we face a new kind of homelessness that is driven by years of wages not keeping up with the cost of housing
in our city. It’s caused pain for millions and deep pain for thousands of people who have become homeless. You may
see them in the line at the grocery store, or in the bank, or at work. And you may never know that at night they return to
a shelter instead of a home. Today, 70 percent of shelter residents are families. They are the invisible majority of our
homeless crisis. For decades, the City has not done enough both these New Yorkers and the communities where they
are sheltered.” from Turning the Tide on Homelessness in New York City (https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/dhs/downloads/
pdf/turning-the-tide-on-homelessness.pdf)
In New York City, one of the main issues in addressing homelessness is creating and maintaining affordable housing.
The city has pursued and continues to explore new ways to foster the development and preservation of affordable
housing as well as provide assistance to those in need. Under the Housing New York: A Five-Borough, Ten-Year Plan
(https://www1.nyc.gov/site/housing/about/our-plan.page) published in May 2014, the city proposed to create and
preserve 200,000 high-quality, affordable homes over ten years. Building on the foundation laid through Housing New
York, in November 2017 the Administration committed to completing the initial goal of 200,000 affordable homes
two years ahead of schedule, by 2022, and generating an additional 100,000 homes over the following four years. To
accomplish this accelerated and expanded plan, the administration launched Housing New York (HNY) 2.0, a roadmap
for how the city will help reach a new goal of 300,000 homes by 2026. HNY 2.0 introduces a suite of new initiatives to
help thousands more families and seniors afford their rent, buy a first home, and stay in the neighborhoods they love
(https://www1.nyc.gov/site/housing/index.page).
Collaborating with other public agencies and nonprofit partners, Department of Homeless Services (DHS) works to
prevent homelessness before it occurs, reduce street homelessness, and assist New Yorkers in transitioning from
shelter into permanent housing. Furthermore, DHS remains committed to meeting its legal mandate to provide
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