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Permanent Homes Coming For Unhoused People Living By LA River
A unhoused man walks along the concrete banks of the Los Angeles River.
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More than 60 people living along the Los Angeles River will be given permanent housing.
On her Twitter account, Councilmember Nithya Raman said she’s receiving $1.7 million from the state government “to support the project from start to finish.”
The money comes from a $50 million fund set aside to specifically address encampments, but the resources will cover a lengthy swath of the river, rather than a single area.
“We applied for a long stretch of the L.A. River … a coherent geography with many people who have lived around its banks for years,” Raman said.
Raman is the only official in the city of L.A. to receive a portion of the state funds. The money is being dispersed across more than a dozen cities and counties in California.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has earmarked a $14 billion package to reduce homelessness. The state is aiming to create 55,000 new housing units and treatment slots with the funds in the coming years.
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The River Project, as Raman has called it, will help “get a lot of people – some of whom have barely been reached by our existing system – off the street for good.”
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