Step Up On Second Street helped inspire California’s Project Homekey to convert hotels into housing; now it denies responsibility for missing money and failed projects.
One year ago, the Santa Monica-based homeless housing and services nonprofit Step Up On Second Street seemed like it was about to become a national player. The politically connected organization had helped come up with California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s “Homekey” homeless housing grant program and then, along with its for-profit real estate partner, had become a major recipient of Homekey funds.
Its then-CEO, Andrew Meyers Abdul-Wahab, said in a 2021 webinar that after meeting Lipka he was drawn to work together, despite having never done affordable housing before, because of a “passion for people” and what he saw as a unique business opportunity.
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