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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsL.A. wanted to use this building as a shelter, and now Trump does too
This week, senior Trump administration officials are making their way to Los Angeles as part of the presidents high-profile promise to intervene in Californias homelessness crisis. Federal officials are discussing the possibility of razing encampments and relocating hundreds or thousands of unhoused peopletactics that homeless advocates insist have no legal grounds under federal law.
One option under discussion is to use a former government building just outside Los Angeles to house (or detain) people now living in Skid Row in downtown L.A., where some 8,000 to 11,000 people are typically living on the streets. Federal officials have already reportedly toured the facility, the former West Coast headquarters of the Federal Aviation Administration, located 20 miles away in Hawthorne, California.
But a review of public records shows that the government previously rejected two efforts by advocacy groups to use the former Federal Aviation Administration building to serve the homeless.
Repurposing federal properties to provide homeless services isnt a new or unprecedented idea: In fact, federal law already requires the government to make unused properties available to advocacy organizations that provide shelter or services to the homeless. Under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1987, the federal government must list surplus properties for consideration by shelter providers in a searchable database. A provision known as Title V states that properties must be made availablefor no chargeto nonprofit groups, faith-based charities, local housing agencies, and other providers before they can be sold.
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DBoon
(22,288 posts)In town, not far from services, I believe it has access to the Green Line light rail
Bayard
(21,806 posts)Or rather, Steven Miller does. Out of all the other homeless populations in America, why pick Los Angeles, CA?
Hekate
(90,202 posts)The man is a monster who should never have control over any vulnerable human being -- not migrant children, not homeless teens and adults. He has proven this again and again.
He describes homelessness as an eyesore on posh real estate developments. He looks at everything as though it is his personal real estate deal -- and he has multiple bankruptcies on record. And as for eyesores, what do you do with them? If you're Trump, you sweep them out of sight and forget them.
The thought of Trump being anywhere near the homeless makes my blood run cold.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)The trump administration would be. The ones that brought you kids in cages.
Many Homeless advocates and a majority of homeless are worried about what they plan to do with the homeless that get into or forced into whatever he has planned.