Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Housing

Visualization of Downey homes threatened by Metro and Caltrans 5 Freeway widening - via segregation_by_design Instagram

I-5 Authority Pushes to Exempt Widening Project from Mandated Equity and Environment Evaluation, Asserts Widening Freeway Cleans Air

By Joe Linton | Mar 11, 2021 | No Comments

I-5 JPA "Metro's recommendation for a holistic, equity based examination of the project regarding induced demand and greenhouse gas emissions... is an academic debate" not pertinent to this $5B highway project.

KItown for All presenting a large check mocking the city's inability to take broad advantage of federal funding for Project Roomkey. Photos by Joe Linton

Activists Urge L.A. City Expand Project Roomkey Via Unlimited Federal Funds

By Joe Linton | Mar 4, 2021 | No Comments

The FEMA is offering 100 percent reimbursement, but L.A. City is having difficulty finding up-front funding to use hotels as homes for unhoused neighbors

Garcetti Funds Extension of Roomkey for 1,200 Rooms, but Council Wants City to Think Bigger

By Damien Newton | Feb 11, 2021 | No Comments

Bonin: "They say where there's a will there's a way; In this case, there has to be a way." Raman: "We need to be ambitious; I've heard the word 'hundreds' but we need be hearing 'thousands' [of new rooms to be added to Roomkey]."

Documentary by Gardena High Alum Centers Stories of L.A.’s Unhoused Black Women

By Joe Linton and Sahra Sulaiman | Dec 22, 2020 | No Comments

Watch Zorrie Petrus' film 'Defining Ourselves For Ourselves: Unhoused, Black, and Female in L.A.'

605 Freeway Corridor Improvement Project map - via Metro

Metro Board Unanimously Approves Motion to Delay 605/5 Freeway Widening and Instead Study Alternatives

By Joe Linton | Oct 22, 2020 | No Comments

Metro's Board sends a strong rebuke to Metro's Highway Program

Rendering of the entrance to permanent supportive housing in Kensington. Image: City of Lancaster

Kensington Campus Opens in Lancaster Providing Temporary Housing, Permanent Housing, and Jobs for Antelope Valley’s Homeless

By Damien Newton | Oct 19, 2020 | No Comments

"It was built to be as inviting as possible. We wanted to treat people like people." says Mayor Parris.

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