No Shelter In Covid County
“Captain Chico”
Venice Beach, CA
2020
When I met Chico, he said he was happy to live at the beach. He wasn’t too worried about Covid, as long as he didn’t have to go to a shelter. Most homeless people I’ve met aren’t opposed to getting into permanent housing- they are opposed to living in a monitored shelter.
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Of the 40,000 residents in Venice- an area of 3.1 square miles with home prices averaging 2.2m- approx 5% are unhomed.
“4 years ago Ca passed prop HHH. It approved 1.2b (plus 2.8b in loans) for housing. HHH has yielded 65 units in LA @ 534k per unit. To build the amount of units needed to house todays homeless population at those rates (as high as @ 700k per unit), it would cost upwards of 64 billion.”
Subsidizing rent would get a lot of folks indoors and keep those on the brink of homelessness from landing on the streets. Long term, I’m all for LA and the state utilizing some pastoral lands off the i10 and i5 to build communities of tiny homes with assisted services. We aren’t going to beat this problem housing a few hundred people here and there in a long term luxury property grab by the gov that doesn’t meet the moment.
#NoShelterCovidCounty
#Homelessness #VeniceBeach
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Location: Venice Beach
