Ethan Ward

Residents of the apartment community said they've dealt with cockroaches, poor electrical wiring and bad management for years and are ready for change.

Mobile Pit Stops were deployed in response to a Hepatitis A outbreak and later expanded to reduce public defecation and urination. Unsheltered people across the city, who have limited access to bathrooms, would like to see the program expanded further.

AB 369, introduced by Sydney Kamlager, would allow health care workers to provide care on the streets, in shelters and in transitional housing.

The hygiene stations had been removed when a pilot program ended, but council member Mark Ridley-Thomas has introduced a motion for the city to bring back some of the stations for use by unhoused Angelenos.

Critics of the ordinance say it will criminalize people just for being unhoused.

The commission could ultimately challenge the authority of LAHSA, the homelessness agency jointly run by the county and city.