That’s three times as much as the city put into the program in the current fiscal year. The largest chunk in the budget is the $238.5 million that would be borrowed to seed a second batch of housing projects approved for Proposition HHH funding. The city would spend an additional $5.4 million to expand and improve domestic violence shelters and to establish a pilot shelter for victims of human trafficking. The funds also would allow 800 winter shelter beds to remain available for an extra month, through March 2019. Garcetti’s budget proposal also sets aside $13 million in continued support for the shelter and crisis housing, rapid re-housing and safe-parking programs run by the city-county housing authority. So far, three Los Angeles council members have proposed sites for shelters no cost estimates have been released. That includes $1.9 million to buy the 4-acre parcel, environmental remediation and underground utilities.
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Garcetti’s spokeswoman said the city planned to link into water and sewer lines and would not use portable toilets.Īt the other extreme, the city of Pomona is putting up a 202-bed shelter, also in a semi-pemanent tent, at a cost expected to exceed $9 million. There are three shower trailers and 30 portable toilets, McElroy said. It’s a semi-permanent, air-conditioned structure with no built-in utilities. The city also is considering tent structures - which have been installed quickly and affordably elsewhere.Īlpha Project, a San Diego human services agency, put up a tent shelter for 325 people for about $1.2 million, chief executive officer Bob McElroy said. That project is slated to cost about $2 million, including the tab for six months’ worth of services, a Garcetti spokeswoman said.Īccording to officials, the cost of additional shelters could be lower if their sites require less preparation. The “A Bridge Home” proposal is modeled after a pilot currently in development downtown, where trailers are being installed to shelter 45 homeless people on a former parking lot.