Mayor Karen Bass wants officials to vet each of its vacant surplus properties by March 31 to determine which would work best for homeless housing.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ordered city officials on Friday to prepare a list of the city’s surplus and unused properties over the next three weeks, the first major step in identifying which ones will be used for building homeless housing.
The mayor, who has promised to bring 17,000 people indoors in her first year, issued her order one week after the City Council voted to allow a new 168-room hotel to go up on a longtime redevelopment site near USC — one whose development was negotiated by the city. “[This is] the very rare occasion that I will stand up in defense of a private developer, a private commercial developer, over affordable housing,” he said at the time.
Galperin’s list also included the Parker Center site, which once served as the LAPD’s headquarters, as well as the property known asnear Crenshaw Boulevard in South L.A., which has long been eyed for private commercial development. Bass has spent several weeks visiting publicly owned homeless housing developments, frequently with federal officials in tow. On Wednesday, she and Jeff Olivet, executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, visiteda homeless housing complex built on county-owned land once reserved for a jail facility.
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