Homeless advocates urge LA leaders to purchase downtown lodge and switch it into housing
LOS ANGELES — Homeless advocates on Friday referred to as on metropolis leaders to buy the LA Grand Lodge, which has served as emergency shelter throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, to transform into everlasting housing.
The lodge, on Figueroa and third streets in downtown Los Angeles, is the biggest of town’s shelter websites below Venture Roomkey, a federally funded program that launched in spring 2020. This system allowed cities and counties to supply emergency shelter for medically weak unhoused folks in the midst of the pandemic. However it will definitely grew to become interim housing for a broader vary of homeless