Editorial: Leasing permanent housing for homeless people is faster than building it (via latimesopinion )
As soon as Karen Bass became mayor of Los Angeles, she created a program called Inside Safe, dedicated to moving homeless people from the street into interim housing.
For example, the Weingart Center, which provides services at the L.A. Grand, doesn’t allow residents to have nonresident visitors in their rooms. Va Lecia Adams Kellum, the chief executive of the L.A. Homeless Services Authority, says that having residents and service providers create the rules together could help keep people in housing.
Offering people interim housing through programs such as Inside Safe is important and worth continuing. But it’s incredibly costly. People are staying in motels and hotels for half a year, and many may stay as long as a year before they find a permanent place to live, based on past experience with temporary housing, says Adams Kellum. We need more permanent housing projects for homeless people even though the projects are slow to develop and expensive to build.
This has already been done to some degree by nonprofits. The People Concern, a nonprofit that provides services to 72 people in two Inside Safe motels, also master-leases about 100 units in four buildings and is talking to two other landlords about another 100-some units. “If we were able to get them all we would clear our motels and take more people,” says John Maceri, the chief executive of the organization.The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, smartly, is doing just that.
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