Bill would allow LA to lease Caltrans space to store RVs from homeless encampments

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Bill would allow LA to lease Caltrans space to store RVs from homeless encampments
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Assembly Bill 2525 is sponsored by L.A. Mayor Karen Bass to help tackle homelessness.

A San Fernando Valley RV encampment on Forest Lawn Drive was cleared on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, under the Inside Safe effort to move homeless people off the streets and indoors. Assemblymember Rich Chavez Zbur, D-Hollywood, has announced a bill – sponsored by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass – to allow the city of L.A.

Under existing law, Caltrans can lease property for $1 a month to a local government to operate an emergency shelter or feeding services.“Many candidates for services like transitional housing have RVs that have served as their only shelter after becoming homeless,” Zbur, who chairs the Assembly Democratic Caucus, said in a news release on Monday, April 8.

In December, L.A. city officials cleared a massive RV encampment in the San Fernando Valley – on Forest Lawn Drive near Warner Bros. Studios – as part of theAccording to Zbur’s office, the city’s existing RV storage lots are 95% full, and the city is in need of additional space to store more surrendered vehicles.“In order to successfully confront the homelessness crisis, we need a unique approach to address RV encampments,” the mayor said.

According to the text of the proposed legislation, local municipalities would pay $1 per month, plus an annual administrative fee of up to $500, to lease airspace under a freeway overpass or other Caltrans properties.To address safety concerns, the proposed bill states that RVs stored in such spaces shall be uninhabited, assessed for safe storage and must not contain hazardous material “except those commonly found in vehicles.

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