The city will spend as much as $3 billion to add up to 16,000 beds or housing units for the homeless over the next five years, officials said.
City of Los Angeles officials said Friday, April 1 that they have agreed to spend billions of dollars to construct more housing units and add thousands of new beds for unhoused people as part of a settlement intended to bring to a close the L.A. Alliance for Human Rights ‘ epic federal lawsuit over how local government has responded to the widening homeless crisis.
The long-running, often unpredictable public legal battle demanded Los Angeles city and county government agencies immediately find shelter to house the region’s growing homeless population camping on sidewalks and near freeways. Appearing at Friday’s announcement were Elizabeth Mitchell, the attorney for the plaintiffs in the LA Alliance for Human Rights v. City of Los Angeles case, as well as Mayor Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez and City Council Homelessness and Poverty Committee Chair Councilmember Kevin de León.
Over the past six weeks, city and county representatives shuffled in and out of Carter’s chambers for multi-hour meetings — with little progress to report until last week when there were indications that a settlement was in the works. Carter, who himself has tried to shed light on the issue by showing up publicly at encampment sites, has said more than once that he was increasingly concerned about “inertia” on the defense side, and ordered the discussions to try and put an end to months without meaningful progress.
The actual number of those affected remains in flux because an accurate count of the area’s unhoused was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The annual homeless count returned this year after being cancelled in 2021.
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