Skid row advocates warn the plan, currently in draft form, would displace many of the approximately 4,000 homeless people living in the blighted downtown area, or leave them in the streets.
A homeless man gestures while seated beside a skid row painting on a sidewalk in downtown Los Angeles in May.
The plan, more than a year in the making, still must withstand further review before going before the L.A. But residential projects in the outer rings of skid row, bordering the fashion and arts districts and Little Tokyo, would have no income restrictions — although developers, under a new “community benefits program,” would be allowed to put up bigger buildings if they included units for poor people, or added parks, public squares or other amenities.
Jerry Jones, policy director at the Inner City Law Center, a skid row legal services group, applauded closing part of skid row to market-rate housing. But he said the plan opens too much of the historic down-and-out neighborhood to the same luxury lofts and condominiums that blanket much of downtown.
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